Virtual scratch with APC40 and Ableton Live!

Scratch with Akai Professional APC40 and Ableton Live!

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• APC40
• Ableton
• scratch

[ph0ton80]

@MrNABnovice recording all the moves you do with the APC40 is one of the basic functions of Live, but as you probably noticed this is not very precise when the changes happen very quickly, like for the crossfader in this video. The problem is that Live applies linear interpolation. I put a post on the Ableton forum that explains how to use a workaround (based on Midi Yoke), but honestly it is not very convenient.

The post is:

forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.ph­­p?f=4&t=139408&view=previous

[ronnylongjohns]

@ph0ton80 maybe try the options.txt modifier for MidiEventThinning??

search forum for syntax

[ph0ton80]

@ronnylongjohns You are right but it is not enough. With MidiEventThinning midi recording is much more precise, but it is still not enough because linear interpolation is still applied.

[Pipotron3000]

Nice vid !

For ppl finding knob not cool enough ;), you can use your laptop trackpad converted to MIDI signal (with a mouse to MIDI soft or trackpad to MIDI, if it is a Synaptic one).

You can even use an external USB Synaptic one if you are on desktop ;)

Or a padKontrol, a Nanopad... anything with a pad ;D

[ph0ton80]

@Pipotron3000

Thanks, really nice!

[ph0ton80]

No plugins!

This is only made with Operator. The first scratch sound is a white noise with an Autofilter whose frequency is controlled by a knob.

The second sound is a Saw4 (or similar), in this case the knob controls the absolute frequency of the oscillator.

[jord1242]

+1 on the tutorial, I wanna rock my APC that way. Please do tell :-)

[brutaltodd05]

PLEASE do a tutorial!!! i wanna be able to do this sooo bad. i would be very grateful

[saronrock]

@brutaltodd05 I assume it's just a track with white noise on it and a frequency shifter. The knob controls the frequency shifter to change the pitch of the scratch, and the cross fader fades the scratch in and out.

[kwafi17]

@ph0ton80 love it  are all the steps on how to work the scratching on that post on ableton forum

[bradcuewalker]

Clever

[foxIIbassoonist]

1080P

[RushHourTraffic]

SugarBytes Turnado has a Vinyl effect option that sounds doper than this. It's a plugin but it also comes with several other cool effects.

[DJBlackIcePodless]

good job man !

[barlive13080]

Wooow ! Awesome dude !

[spentfromnz]

I was able to reproduce the first scratch sound using white noise with a LPF, and fed into an autofilter set between 40Hz and 1.5kHz, then gated to remove the extremes.

But how the hell do you make that tweaky saw scratch at 1:34?

[vigintitres46]

yeauh at :51 on. Kinda sound like tweety bird tryin to rap. I was wonderin if you could do this on an APC40. Nice job man

[ronnylongjohns]

@ph0ton80 fair enough. I've not tried to record such fast controller movements so I'm sure you're right!

anyway, nice vid, thanks