by bighairmusic » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:59 am
sure... i know i was a bit vague, sorry about that!
My set up is a MBP 1.83 duo, with 2 gig ram, using Ableton Live 5.2, with approx 8 tracks of audio elements already (loops, whole tracks, beats, cut ups, elements), plus my UC33e (which has alot of its controllers assigned already to EQs, faders, delays, FX etc).
The visuals i will be creating, some i would like to be triggered spot on to the music, for eg setting up a midi note in a snare position (on the 2 and 4) and have that trigger a visual of a slapping hand across a face. Other visual layers will be less related to timing, and more loop based and washy, and overlayed, but some sync options would be nice (retriggering long loops, colour changes, strobes etc). I have lots of years worth of interesting linear motion graphics elements as i've worked in Motion graphics design for quite a while, as well as audio design and DJing/performing Live.
I'm hoping to eventually do both Audio and Visuals on the one machine (when the Universal Binary modul8 comes out), but i'm aware this might be a bit much at the moment, so may borrow another laptop for the time being.
I suppose i'm interested in how much control people have just within Ableton. Do you control every aspect of Modul8 from within Live? and if so what are the simple methods For example
Clip launching (say a track of clips in live's session view each with midi notes>contextual midi>loaded into specific layers), FX for specific tracks (set up as a track in Live of clips containing controller messages>contextual midi), Transformations (scale, rotation etc). I've just got my copy (thanks Boris!) so i'm excited as to the possiibilities, but will also be aiming to integrate it into my current Ableton Audio Live sets, so will have to be aware of too many huge track counts and using up my UC33es faders for both audio and visuals.
I'm thinking i may have to get another midi controller just for modul8, and then perhaps just sequence certain very 'on the beat' visual elements from within live.
Sorry if all this is a bit of a splurg, i've just been buzzing with the possibilities and was wondering what other peoples setups were like.
Thanks for any help in advance!!