Re: Ableton Live - Easing Usability with SoftSynth Patch Selection

["Kris Hartung" <krispen.hartung@gmail.com>]

Awesome! This is excellent. Thanks, Per.  I remember reading about racks in 
Live, but I haven't been ableto figure out how to creat one. For some 
reason, the manual didn't make it very clear ot me.  Do you know of a 
youtube video turorial on this?
Kris

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...with Live you need to first create an
instrument/effect rack. Inside this rack you load up many instances
set to all the preset patches you want to use. When looking at the
rack GUI click the little box named "Chain"; a grid with 128 points
will open. Each of those 128 points may host one of your patches
(unique plugin instance loaded for this patch). On the upper
horizontal row you will see an orange colored marker; click MIDI Learn
(upper right in global window), click the orange marker and send in a
MIDI CC value. Each MIDI CC offers 128 values so if for example you
want to use the modulation wheel to scroll between patches your first
patch will be recalled by CC#01-01, second patch by CC#01-02 und so
weiter. The mod wheel was a bad example though, because you may want
to use some physical controller that is incremental, letting you
advance by one patch at a time.

If you want to use two pedal switches or push buttons, one for Next
Patch and the other for Previous Patch, you need Max For Live. The M4L
device that does this is named "rack inc-dec".

Oh, I almost forgot: For this rack method of switching patches you
have to first save each patch into Ableton Live's own format.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen



On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Kris Hartung <krispen.hartung@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Here's one for you Live gurus. So I'm using Live to host my VST synths and
> the Reaktor VST, which has my ensembles (soft synths) and snaps (like
> patches or presets) inside of that. This is what I'm struggling with and
> I'm not sure if there is a solution.
>
> Let's say I have a favorite VST synth loaded in a MIDI track. And inside
> that VST synth, I have a favorite patch. Right now, if I want to access
> that patch in a live performance context, I have to first activate the 
> MIDI
> track (because I don't want it playing until that point), then click on 
> the
> VST synth's menu of presets, and then manually select the preset. With
> Reaktor it requires an additional step, since Reaktor itself is a 
> collection
> of synths. I have to activiate the MIDI track that has Reaktor in it, 
> select
> the Ensemble (synth), and then select the snap (patch). That's three 
> steps.
> It is a royal pain in the ass and total improv buzz killer.
>
> What I'd really like to do is hit a single MIDI button or pad on Axion 25
> that goes directly to the patch I want and combines all these steps
> together. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Kris