looking for advice from the community to achieve the following functionality in Ableton Live: I’m looking for a midi plugin that allows me to set the pitch on one midi channel and the note on/off / gate / trigger on another channel. So midi track 1 in Ableton would have a sequence to set the pitch of my baseline for a hardware synth and midi track 2 in Ableton would have a sequence to set the rhythm of my baseline for the same hardware synth. So maybe something like an M4L arp device that can take the notes from one channel and the trigger events from another channel.
Curious as to why? You’re looking to merge MIDI note information from one Ableton track with the Note On/Off from a second Ableton track? Why not just use one track?
Simple reason: My hardware sequencers can’t have patterns longer than 4 bars (e.g. my Elektron boxes) and patterns in Ableton Live with Push 2 are cumbersome to edit when longer than 4-8 bars. As I usually make minimal/generative music with my electric equipment (as opposed to when playing guitar) I realised that I basically only need a few steps (with one step representing one bar) in one sequencer to set the notes/chords and a few steps (with one step representing one 16th note) in another sequencer to set the rhythm. Especially when having a 32 bar sequence to set the pitch of the note and a 7/8 sequence to set the rhythm things get interesting for me.
About the M4L device that you posted, that’s to my understanding unfortunately just a simple midi filter that can filter out midi notes which include both pitch and trigger.
Still trying to wrap my head around it. It’s early and the coffee is just setting in
If you’re open to a hardware MIDI fitler/processor, the MIDI Solutions Event Processor Plus is really powerful. I believe Bome Box is also a capable device. I’ve not used one though. I own a Event Processor Plus but I’ve never used it. I bought it for a reason and used another workaround. Or, I think I need to filter clock out to avoid tempo doubling and it was the only solution. It’s an absurdly powerful MIDI processor.
Edit - I think I understand your thought process here; you want one track setting the pitch of the synth while another track gates it. I don’t think this would work as you think it would. My understanding is that a MIDI event would contain Note On/Off, Note number, Velocity etc. and are a singular event or all required for the synth to process as an event.
What you’re thinking would happen is that sending a MIDI note message would set the pitch of the synth to a constant note that you would then gate ‘Note On/Off’ as desired. I’m almost certain that wouldn’t work. You would almost need to have access to Coarse tuning of the oscillator via CC or NRPN as well as something to trigger the AMP/Filter envelopes. I’m sure if you just sent Note On/Off without the requried note number, the synth wouldn’t process it as you think it would.
I could be way off though. There are some MIDI gurus on this site that could likely confirm/deny or articulate this more clearly.
