Control lights via drums

Control Light show with Ableton Live.

Control lights via drums I just got someone asking me about this topic, how to control DMX lights via Ableton Live with your drums. That reminded me that there are actually still a few connections to make. To be honest this topic wasn’t that present to me. This is not because I don’t use this … Read more

How to trigger visuals with drums

Dynamic video effects controlled by drums

Here is a video tutorials series on how to set up MIDI to trigger visuals with drums in Resolume Arena. I used a Roland TM-2 for playing, all the drum sounds, the bass lines and the spheric sounds are being triggered in Ableton Live. All the MIDI is send through Ableton Live before it is … Read more

Round Robin Max for Live device

round robin for Ableton Live

How to set-up a Round Robin in Ableton Live In many cases you want one electronic drum pad (or one button of other external midi controller) to play more then only one sound. With most external midi hardware you can only send one midi note pitch with one pad, at least in one preset. But … Read more

Impulse Tuner – Max for Live device

Change pitch for Ableton Impulse

The “Impulse Tuner” lets you change the pitch of incoming MIDI notes to the required pitches for triggering Abletons Impulse. Those pitches consists of a C major scale starting from C3 (C3, D3, E3, F3, G3, A3, B3 + C4). As those pitches are fixed to trigger the 8 fields of the Impulse you can’t … Read more

Play Loops in Drum Rack

The “Drumrack Toggle Loop” lets you play loops in Drum Rack in Ableton Live. You can toggle loops on/off in a Drum Rack via Simpler Instruments. If you are using a midi controller like an electronic drum kit this could come handy as you can easily re-pitch midi notes inside a midi track. Especially using … Read more

Note Toggle All

The “Toggle All Notes” lets you toggle loops on/off in a Drumrack via included Simpler Instrument. If you are using a midi controller like an electronic drum kit this could come handy as you can easily re-pitch midi notes inside a midi track. Especially using electronic drums this device solves the big issue of “Note … Read more