Here’s a way to create “banks” using the Editor and Presets so you can control more than eight tracks in Ableton Live.
or visit the vimeo page
So this morning I was searching for a software that turns audio tracks into MIDI notes and I came across a little program called WIDI Audio to MIDI. What I wanted to do was take a track and turn the Ohm64 into a “player piano” so the LED’s would blink when a note was playing. I did a quick look into my itunes library and took a Coltrane track (I almost chose “Total Soul Future” from Beck, but I needed more piano). After opening the track in WIDI, I connected my Ohm64 and here is the result.
Pointless? Perhaps, but still pretty cool. I actually have it playing at my desk all day with John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” and it does add to the free jazz philosophy of Coltrane.
So when we first made the Ohm64 mini prototype in December Blake made a nice little Ableton Project to illustrate using the Ohm with Ableton. Here is a video showing a newer version of that project with Live and the Ohm64. This shows how you can use the grid to interact with your performance. Many more Live examples to come.
Closeup
Here’s a video that runs through some of the possible controls of the Ohm64 using the Editor. I’ve been finishing up the Editor application on my Ohm64 prototype, and it’s working pretty well.
Well we are not in France, though it would be nice. We jut received a new add from our French distributor Noizik and thought we would share it here. Noizik is really on the cutting edge of distributors and also distributes the Audio Cubes, and Mawzer controllers. If you haven’t seen the Audio Cubes, Peter did a bunch of tutorials using them for a Create Digital Music review.
If you are in France or really anywhere in Europe check out Noizik, these kinds of distributors really deserve our support.
