Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Abelton - Instrument chains

 These are related to drum racks, but different.

You dont have the MPC layout.


I have made an instrument rack with 4 instruments.
One impulse drum rack (dub delay), one Analog inst, One operator and a Collision pad.
 
Look in the  Browser.:
Display Categories / Instruments, and drag the Instrument Rack folder onto the first MIDI track 
You can drag whatever instruments you like into the window below the list of chains.

In a earlier post I talked about using the macros to control launching of instruments.
   
We now need to assign each instrument a unique Chain Selector value.
 
Clip 1 launches when MIDI = 0
Clip 2 launches when MIDI =1
Clip 3 launches when MIDI =2
Clip 4 launches when MIDI =3
 


 
To automate the clip selector
Ive added in the clip launcher  4 midi tracks.
 
 
 
 

Here, Im going over how to use envelopes to select which midi clip triggers the instrument.

 
Set the channel to chain select.
And
The first midi clip has an envelope drawn to level 0
Keep is flat ... at level zero along the entire clip
 

Clip 2 will have a level of 1.
 
Clip 3 a level of 2 .... and so on.
 
 



You can download this demo project here:



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