Release : Max Patch (M4L) mapping all JoMoX CC parameters

I love my JoMoX XBase 09 – just awesome! It looks like this:

After going through a whole heck of a lot of getting the parameters balanced and recorded  I decided to write a Max patch to handle this data for me.

This was really fun. Somewhat laborious but this is a great and important skill to have under to belt for integrating hardware units into the Ableton environment.

Here’s what the patches looks like:

I built 4 patches. On each for the Bass, Snare, and Hat parameters and another to control the level for th three instrument outputs. This makes the whole thing pretty modular.

The editor view is pretty straight forward as well (great for those of us ramping up into the nasty stuff in M4L.

This work is based on (extends) the work of prodavid – view in the editor.

Download this work (and all the patches) from the repository https://github.com/datamafia/ableton-colorado-user-data (download button on right middle-ish.

Freio Profile (ftw)

Special thanks to Freio music for the profile and post on site. The idea is interesting – I am curios on what the future holds. Regardless, any supporter of music in the modern technological era is super-dooper welcome.

Here’s the link to my profile. This project seems to be in early stages as of today, but there is a considerable framework in place (yeah, I am a WordPress ninja, I read between the lines). Let’s all watch where this will go.

If you have any ideas you can find Scott here in Denver or start with the music over here with his Soundcloud account.

Bass Hole 1 alpha (preview)

Recently a user asked me about a particular bass sound.  I know the sound, so do you – it’s that snappy over electrified, and absolutely over compressed with no-dynamics sort of heavy bass.

Being obsessed with the basic tools of Ableton I wrote this CPU heavy effects rack.  I will place it in the repository, but I am not done yet.  That does not mean I can not share…right? So here is an early version, enjoy.

Download Bass Hole-beta1.adg

This demo was done via a 4bit square wave in Operator.

Warning : CPU heavy! Also, makes nasty sounds.

Operation:

This patch can kill bass in some instances. Because of this I encourage using it as both a parallel process as well as an insert level effect in Ableton at your discretion. Don’t mess up your bass!

The Knobs:

• +Dry : Adds original dry signal to the chain
• All Mid Sweeps : Sweeps all the mid controls
• Hi-End Snap : Amount of additional hi frequency electricity
• +Super Snap : Like Hi-End Snap, but more intense via a dedicated channel more over driven and a low cut
• +Chorus : Addition of chorus to the signal (old bass player trick)
• +vocode 5th’s(+/-) : Adds the vocoding element to the mix. I used a + and – 5th (slightly offset) thinking power chord style
• Vocode Sweep : Changes multiple bands on multiple vocoders like a sweep but with a dynamic element (via the vocoder)
• Vocode Bandwidt(h) : Think of this like the bit resolution of the vocoder, but different.

The principle :

This is based on (3 band) multi-band compression. In short, this effect expands the mids and his to a point of distortion. There are several layers of frequency control and a considerable amount of non-linear interaction. This patch can slam and electrify a square wave like no other. Saw and Square waves do really well. This patch manipulates energy change on the osc level, so waves with dramatic shifts will electrify more. Sine waves will not snap out the same.