Ableton Live + Quartz Composer Tutorial: Audio and Midi basics (pt. 1)

In the first part of this tutorial I show you how to set up and build an audio analysis patch that gives you readings of 12 freq bands and the volume signal to control anything you want in Quartz Composer.
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[TYTHAARTIST]

how about the opposite? im working on a project which requires different tracks of audio to be controlled from QC to Ableton (values in quartz tell ableton to increase volume of tracks independently) any suggestions?

[ThePurestData]

@TYTHAARTIST You could look into sending midi values out of QC, I am not sure how this is implemented though I imagine it's possible. Using the IAC bus as the out of quartz and the in of Live, you could midi map things to volume etc.

[witheringzithering]

how did you set up audio with soundflower? When I select audio out in Live to Soundflower 2 channel, and select Soundflower 2ch as the source for Quartz's audio input module, I can get the audio to effect the visuals but can't hear the audio. How do I route Soundflower to the main audio outputs in mac os? Thansk

[ThePurestData]

@witheringzithering Open soundflowerbed (spotlight it) and then you can select the 'physical' output source to your built-in, or connected interface.

[foreverMidi]

nice track too

[witheringzithering]

Nice one man, thanks a lot! Appreciate the info

[jaygobloom]

Thanks this is really helpful but I am missing parts with this man, simply because I cant see the text on the QTZ boxes :(

[keer2010paris]

Hey ma great tuto, could you send me a working patch so I can Revers engerneer it plizzz

Vincent.rieuf@gmail.com

Thx