Once you’ve got IAC (or windows equivalent) set up, you’ll need to open up Live’s preferences window, and head over to the MIDI/Sync tab. Under MIDI Ports, you’ll now see a virtual input and output port for the IAC driver. This means that you now have a new source and destination for MIDI data in […]
MIDI MACRO CLIPS, pt. 2
Alright, so what’s all this about sending MIDI out through IAC and then back into Live? Let’s dig in. We’ll start off with a trick that’s admittedly completely pointless, but very simple: create a MIDI clip that turns the metronome on or off. Don’t worry, from pointless beginnings come great things. The first step happens […]
TEMPO CHANGE MACRO
In my current version of my live set, I’m using macro clips to change Live’s master tempo. Unlike the previous example which uses a note message to toggle the metronome on and off, this technique is going to involve using a clip to send CC data via a clip envelope. Let’s take a look at […]
TEMPO CHANGE MACRO, pt. 2
A couple more points about the way I’m setting up the tempo change clips: Qantization is set to None. No need to wait until the beginning of the next bar to get the tempo change going. For Launch mode, I’m using toggle. When combined with no quantization, toggle mode makes it easy to jump to […]
ROUND NUMBER TEMPO MACRO MADNESS
I’ve you’ve been digging in and trying out the tempo change macro, you may have bumped into the problem of getting the tempo exactly right. In other words, you may find that instead of the tempo landing at 95bpm, it ends up at 95.31. From a strict tempo perspective, this isn’t usually a huge deal. […]
ROUND NUMBER TEMPO MACRO MADNESS – ON ICE!
OK, here I go again getting neck-deep into some nerdy minutae. I hope it’s clear by this point that I dig into this stuff partly to demonstrate the broad array of simple solutions there are to all sorts of problems. More than anything, I hope to share with you a bit of my though process […]
MIDI SYNC: THE HARDWARE
One of the most common questions I get asked is how to set up two computers to sync to each other. There’s a very short answer I often give to this question, but we’ll get into that later. For now, I’m gonna take you through the steps for setting up sync. The first thing to […]
MIDI SYNC: THE SOFTWARE
Now that you’re all cabled up, open up the MIDI/Sync tab of Live’s Preferences window on the Master computer. In the list of MIDI Ports, locate the Output that the MIDI cable is connected to, and turn on the Sync switch. If you’re using the MIDI output port on a control surface or keyboard, you […]
MIDI SYNC: THE TROUBLESHOOTING
If things don’t work properly with sync, the first thing you want to check out are the sync indicators. If you look closely, you’ll notice that these have appeared on both the Master computer…. ….and the Slave: The bottom square is the Sync Out indicator. On the Master computer, this should start blinking as soon […]
MIDI SYNC: THE SYNC
Once you’ve got sync going, you may need to spend some time adjusting the quality of the synchronization. It’s not uncommon for there to be a bit of lag, causing the Slave computer to be a bit behind the Master. Due to some of the wacky things that can happen with delay compensation, it’s even […]
