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Re: cheap ableton/energy/what have you, footcontroller
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Gareth Whittock
<buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:
>
>http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/08/02/get-loopy-with-the-diy-10-ableton-footcontroller-no-soldering-required/
>
> Quite a cool DIY project for turning a usb qwerty keyboard into a light,
> silent, cheap, not very hard wearing, foot controller.
Interesting link! I remember that Matthias Loibner was using a (bit
more) modded computer keyboard to loop hyrdygurdy at the Zürich
Loopfest in 2005.
The article covers Ableton Live pretty well. If using Plogue Bidule on
the lappy there is a good tool in Bidule to detect use key strokes,
the "HID Data Extractor", found under "Misc".
If using Logic qwerty strokes can be directly learned to parameters,
even in plug-ins like for example a looper plugin. A function that
makes Logic interesting as a live looping host even though it can not
any more slave sync to MIDI clock (since Logic 8).
Regarding Mainstage it is a bit sad that we are lacking this key
stroke assignment ability, unless for editing purposes. What a shame!
But Mainstage at least has the Musical Typing (by default assigned to
"cmnd K") that will let you play MIDI Notes from the qwerty board.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
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