Recently I have been experimenting with Ableton Live as a way to create some quick loops over which I can improvise a solo with the Alpha. I want to be able to trigger clips (or tracks) from the Alpha. I found that it was impossible to do this because the slightest touch of any key on the Alpha spews out a ton of events. (This is the only example where the wonderful sensitivity of the Alpha is a liability :-) )
Ultimately, I created a trivial Max patch that just accepts note events and sends them back out again (for those of you familiar with Max, a trivial notein connected to noteout). I can then configure a virtual Max output as a "Remote" for Live and associate the desired Note events with clips.
There are however a couple of problems:
1) You have to have Max (or an equivalent program that can do this kind of filtering)
2) Because the Eigenharp itself still needs to be playable, i.e. associated with a track in Live, all Note events still go into Ableton Live and trigger sounds. Normally, if you have an instrument configured to be used in a track and as a remote, once you assign an event for "remote", the event is no longer passed to the track
How can I trivially reconfigure a few specific keys so that they only send Note events? I had hoped to have access to WorkBench by now (which I assume will let me do this) but that doesn't seem to be available yet.
Thanks,
D
UK
