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

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