Myotte
2012-11-07 06:31:36
Hey everybody, first time poster here and its going to be a lengthy description and a definite challenge. Ive gotten the midi translator for 1 simple, specific task, which I have figured out and have put in use. Now that I see the possibilities of what this program can do, I thought Id see if any of you out there might be able to figure something out that Im not sure is even possible.
Here's the gist:
I am in a band that uses Ableton Live extensively. We use it to create and play backing tracks as well as controlling multiple lights and a led curtain. For those of you familiar with Ableton, I have been doing all of this through arrangement view. Now, I am in the process of switching everything over to clip view. This will allow us to have a more streamlined show as well as being customizable during performance. I will be launching each backing track as a scene so that it fires off everything necessary at the same time. Ableton users: most of you know that if you name each scene with "bpm xxx" in the name, Ableton automatically switches the tempo to whatever bpm is listed. Therefore, if I launch "Song A - 120 bpm"...ableton will play the backing track and our click track at 120. If I would launch "Song B - 80 bpm", as soon as Song B launches, Ableton will immediately switch the tempo to 80 bpm. For our situation, if we wanted to do medleys on the fly, this would make the song changes very abrupt and awkward instead of being smooth and streamlined. There is the dilemma.
Now that you have a general idea of whats going on.........here's my question/challenge:
Is it possible, with Bomes, to somehow make it so that, say, over the course of 2 measures, it can automatically slope the tempo from one scene to the next?
For example: "Song A - 120 bpm" is playing at 120 bpm and we decide we want to go right into "Song F - 100 bpm". Is it possible to set it all up so that, when I launch "Song F - 100 bpm", Bomes automatically slopes the tempo down so that right when "Song F - 100 bpm" starts, the tempo is then smoothly transitioned from 120 to 100?
I hope this makes sense. I also would be very excited to see an answer that isnt, "cant be done". I know that there a lot of incredibly smart people on this forum so I hope somebody might be able to at least point me in the right direction.
Thanks everyone and I hope to get some feedback!
Here's the gist:
I am in a band that uses Ableton Live extensively. We use it to create and play backing tracks as well as controlling multiple lights and a led curtain. For those of you familiar with Ableton, I have been doing all of this through arrangement view. Now, I am in the process of switching everything over to clip view. This will allow us to have a more streamlined show as well as being customizable during performance. I will be launching each backing track as a scene so that it fires off everything necessary at the same time. Ableton users: most of you know that if you name each scene with "bpm xxx" in the name, Ableton automatically switches the tempo to whatever bpm is listed. Therefore, if I launch "Song A - 120 bpm"...ableton will play the backing track and our click track at 120. If I would launch "Song B - 80 bpm", as soon as Song B launches, Ableton will immediately switch the tempo to 80 bpm. For our situation, if we wanted to do medleys on the fly, this would make the song changes very abrupt and awkward instead of being smooth and streamlined. There is the dilemma.
Now that you have a general idea of whats going on.........here's my question/challenge:
Is it possible, with Bomes, to somehow make it so that, say, over the course of 2 measures, it can automatically slope the tempo from one scene to the next?
For example: "Song A - 120 bpm" is playing at 120 bpm and we decide we want to go right into "Song F - 100 bpm". Is it possible to set it all up so that, when I launch "Song F - 100 bpm", Bomes automatically slopes the tempo down so that right when "Song F - 100 bpm" starts, the tempo is then smoothly transitioned from 120 to 100?
I hope this makes sense. I also would be very excited to see an answer that isnt, "cant be done". I know that there a lot of incredibly smart people on this forum so I hope somebody might be able to at least point me in the right direction.
Thanks everyone and I hope to get some feedback!