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The armings could be mapped to the keyboard or a ready-made midi controller, but then a problem would emerge with something very important: the play button. Doing this manually would take too much time and be rather imprecise and boring. Building the thing was necessary, because each song in our Ableton Live live-set has a different set of instruments and effects, which all need to be armed simultaneously when we want to switch songs. (The pics are of an earlier version lacking some features) NVR is an Arduino based midi controlled, housed within metal parts scavenged from a junk yard. An in-depth article of the NVR will be written soon, but for now let’s just stick with a few lines (which assume the reader has some knowledge of how Ableton Live works). In a live situation (pun intended) Ableton is controlled with a custom built midi controller, The Neuro Valve Regulator (NVR). It’s the digital core of the unzymian practical science, live and in the studio. 2.1 Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and its control interface (NVR)
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We’re planning on building a wireless midi mixer or maybe utilizing the Wireless Mixer -application on the Android mobile platform. The drawback of the new confurigation is that currently mixing is limited to virtual sliders in Ableton Live. It might have been better in terms of mixing, but the configuration makes it impossible to apply effects to the master channel (since there is no “master”, only outgoing channels bypassing master). Originally we separated each track to a different output (our soundcard allows eight outputs). The audio is output as two mono channels (left and right).
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The Macbook Pro is laid on top of the Hive, so it also works as a table. The Hive also contains the PC (Hiveputer) which runs the VJ (visual jockey) set. Most of the gear is housed within an old bass amplifier, which we named… The Hive! We converted the Hive to house the components and cables so that setting up the live set wouldn’t require hassling with billions and billions of cables and components stacked in random boxes.
Currently everything runs through Cthulhu: vocals, keyboards, drums, backing track, VJ-information, midi controllers and the blood of nonbelievers. Cthulhu is manifested by Macbook Pro (having an evil cosmic deity as computer has many advantages).
In our case the instruments represent the tentacles. The unzymian live setup is like an octopus or even Cthulhu: multiple tentacles are involved, but their origin is common. Still, I decided it doesn’t justify making two versions of the document. 1 and adjusting the gain to 2 o’clock – WHO CARES). Also, I seriously need to write this down before I reach a demented stage and forget everything.īecause of the user-manual point of view, this document contains details that seem very unnecessary in the eyes of a person looking for guidance on his/her live set (such as hooking the mic to Profire 610’s input no.
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The second reason I wrote this is to provide Joona and Mary (and myself) with an instruction manual in case I get destroyed.
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If anyone has solved the multiple-midi-assign-dilemma (being able to assign multiple midi commands to a single object in Live) please come forth (we’re pretty sure this could be nailed with a Reaktor or Max patch merging incoming midi commands).
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We’d love to hear suggestions on how to improve it. Not to say our system is perfect – far from it. Hopefully this document will help fresh electro groups struggling with the same issues we did. Should each song be contained in a different file? Or should they all be crammed into one? If so, how to make this as resource-friendly as possible? How about arming tracks and launching songs? By trying out a few different methods, gathering tips here and there and by creating some custom hardware we finally managed to crack what I think is somewhat a smoothly running system. The questions of how to handle situations with multiple songs, each having different midi instruments and effects, were left unanswered. It was as if no-one used Live for normal, non-DJ, band live performance, or they just didn’t think of letting anyone know how to create a smoothly functioning set. First, when we started Unzyme we really couldn’t find any decent information on setting up a live show with Ableton Live that wasn’t your normal DJ-set. There are two reasons I wrote this document. Drop by at the of August 2014 to find the new version.Ħ. Note: this article is outdated and is being redone.
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