Shifted MIDI Notes in Ableton Live
Posted on | June 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
Ok, what fun did I do the last hour? While working on DNA Tones, Part Three, I had a set of tracks playing the same MIDI clips — it’s one of those power-techniques to have multiple instruments playing the same lead, bass, and others. Heavy rock bands have known about this trick since the early day power chords.
Anyway, what I started doing, see image, is to deliverately shift the notes in the various same MIDI tracks, some would play now and then a couple of semitones above, or below.
This made a very interesting arrangement, sounds like some of the instruments are jamming now and then, and then falling back into line.
I just had to remember to cut the midi clips here and there — they were looping, so if I pushed one note up, it could have caused problems earlier in the total mix of the tracks playing.
You could also place one of the arpeggiator plug-ins into one of the tracks with same midi info as let’s say a bass line, with pushing it up one octave, and this way also get all kinds of interesting variations using the same MIDI data.
Comments
One Response to “Shifted MIDI Notes in Ableton Live”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
June 14th, 2011 @ 12:05 PM
This really answered my problem, thank you!