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laurelchartow
Using Ableton Live with Processing - Ideas?
Feb 18th, 2009, 8:32pm  
Hello everybody out there,

I am interested in using Minim, RWMidi, Promidi or Midibus to direct MIDI data from my Ableton Live sets into Processing, in order to create responsive visuals.  So far I've been able to create a MIDI channel without an assigned instrument (assigning a synth to a MIDI channel in Live doesn't allow you to send its MIDI data elsewhere, only its audio data), and retrieve MIDI information from other actively assigned MIDI channels...for specific note/on off, velocity, and pitch events I have copy pasted certain clips from the assigned MIDI channels onto the unassigned MIDI channel.  From this unassigned channel I have directed the MIDI to the Mac OSX IAC Driver, which is recognized by Processing (I have tried Promidi so far and it has been successful...specifically with the Promidi Reflection and Plug examples).  

From here I am wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to make the visuals more interesting...if anyone has any examples to share, ideas for code, resources for me to check out...  Because what has shown up so far are cute little colored circles on the screen whose position and color I'm guessing are reacting to pitch and velocity and while circles are interesting... Smiley
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melka
Re: Using Ableton Live with Processing - Ideas?
Reply #1 - Feb 21st, 2009, 1:07pm  
O Hai

One thing I did some time ago, using Ableton, Processing and an Arduino board
http://vimeo.com/1720165
A bit more infos here
http://melka.one.free.fr/blog/?p=131

And I'm currently working on basically the same basis, but instead of controlling an arduino board, I'm sending OSC messages to another computer running the VJing software Resolume Avenue.
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Re: Using Ableton Live with Processing - Ideas?
Reply #2 - Mar 15th, 2009, 6:28am  
FYI: To simplify your Ableton work flow, you can have a midi track assigned to a synth, create a new midi track, change its MIDI from to the previous synth track, and change its MIDI to whatever interface you're using to send to processing.

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