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I've been trying to get a performance setup going with a laptop on OS X leopard, some max/msp apps, sooperlooper and some midi/osc hand and foot controllers.

I'm trying to get sooperlooper to act as a master, slaving max/msp and the sequencer. Max triggers instruments in the sequencer as well.

Mainstage: Likes to lock up and complain about drivers not being up to date. It's fine when I turn the keyboards off during startup and then back on afterwards. But then I lose all my mappings. Not good in a live setting - I have other things to do besides map 5-10 controllers. No tempo timed effects due to the lack of a sequencer - but that's not a big a deal as the former issue.

So on to....

Logic: I use the environment to route my keyboard to some synths, route those into sooperlooper and all is well. max/msp is syncing to sooperlooper like a dandy. Let's sync Logic to sooperlooper's midi beat clock. Oh, whoops, Logic CANNOT DO THIS!

So on to...

Ableton(14 day trial)
Setup working nicely (except for some max/msp problems now resolved). Buuuut, routing midi from my pedal to SL is not working inside Ableton. No big whoop, I fire up midi router and get it going. Sooo, how to I switch patches in the middle of a song. It seems I cannot, without making my midi controller change midi channels on patch changes. It cannot.

Ableton day 2...
Looking foward to a little jam. SooperLooper is no longer responding to my footboard. Well...it responds to the first record, or overdub it receives, but nothing after that. I mess with it for 1.5 hours. It starts working. Then stops. I cannot get it to work again. I go to the forums. I cannot remember my old username. There is no way to retrieve it. I register a new account. An admin must approve it.

It's been a bit of a struggle, althought I managed to get the Logic setup working the best and make some pretty sounds.

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did you sort out your pedal

Permalink Submitted by zoecello on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 07:40

did you sort out your pedal to SL problems?

its been a long time since i had to set it up but i remember one thing that stymied me is that Ableton converts incoming MIDI to plugins to Channel 1.

maybe that's not your problem though....

nope..

Permalink Submitted by sam on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 21:39

I never did, unfortunately. I will give it another shot though.

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