Device Details
Device Overview
| Name/Version: | Isotonik LE 9 |  |
| Author: | S4racen | |
| Description: | NOW COMPATIBLE WITH LIVE 8 & LIVE 9! The final beta of Isotonik Nine is now available to all subscribers! We'll be running another lifetime subscription giveaway when this device hit's 15,000 downloads!! The device detects which version you are using and initializes itself automatically! Isotonik LE 9... Drop on audio track, click the help button.... Hold Metronome and turn Cue Encoder for fine tempo control, Midi Overdub and Cue Encoder for Coarse control... Offers selecting clips without launching them, lighting clip stop buttons when clips are playing and flashing when looping.... Use track select buttons to focus on waveforms of clips playing in tracks and choose whether to have the redbox relocate as well.... Nudge playing clips on the fly to bring them back in line.... Then click the upgrade button to get even more goodies....!! Walkthrough video detailing all the features... http://vimeo.com/33315530 www.facebook.com/IsotonikStudios http://isotonikstudios.com/isotonik_max4live_akai_apc40/ Cheers D |
Device Details
| Downloads: | 12406 |
| Tags | effect, utility, glitch, hardware, dj |
| Live Version Used: | 9.0.1 |
| Max Version Used: | 6.1 |
| Average Rating (21) | 5 |
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| Device Type: | audio_device |
| URL (optional): | http://www.isotonikstudios.com |
| License (more info): | AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives |
Device Files
| Device File: | Isotonik LE 9.0.amxd |
Comments
| OK, after opening it up, I still can't seem to get it to work on other tracks. |
Posted on December 19 2009 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| hey man this device is hella wikked.. only suggestion i might make is possibly making the window float? other than that im much glad to see where this goes.. nice!! |
Posted on December 19 2009 by djshine (report) |
| For the moment open the patch in edit mode and locate the bright blue comment that says about entering the track number, i'll update this patch shortly so that it'll look for the track that it sits on... And as for making it float... Haven't got the first clue on how to achieve this? What would be the benefit of doing so?? Cheers D |
Posted on December 20 2009 by S4racen (report) |
| I recently posted about this on the Ableton forum: http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=131576&start=15 Make things float by encasing them in a patcher with at least a dummy inlet inside it, so that you can attach a pcontrol-object to it. Then use a toggle/live.button sent to a select with the attributes 0 / 1, connected to the relevant messages "open" and "close," leading into the pcontrol Here is an example; a floating "Buffer Shuffler": ----------begin_max5_patcher---------- 519.3ocmT0zaaCCC8r8uBCc1MH1stMc2ZAZwNrScXmFJBTroSUmrjgjbP5Jx +8ouriaprWPuPlPJQx2Szu2iiPa36AIJ4aI+NIJ583nHaHSfH++iPM38kTrz dLDkrCVn3a2RATpK+NrfgafoRy5Z3cJJnrEHyGsU.RfovJBmsV.kJ2PjUrXY ZxkFSQVuM4Y+kb0Q8VK3NMBMjhTY6OeyqWTz24Vrp7EBa6n5mWjapZlyVzaG Jy3w5CiKVngnBDqAFdCEFmSCPB6T7Iw6fp0XkRP1zofi+R5IWO6ZnOZGvq6C 2GebOks.TQIMlyrLMPdEzJmJInmOOcwqqQoZGaf293I22xYZzawwhP0piQTR 0ad7G5DM5skoueiloryYvr8Or4AxQzclfoin+fDwKbgZlkwSJ4NhjLS0Z3U8 nI+lfSLlw39c3gtFpUTNa64NVltNGKQIr+XpkbtwlWMIpHrZ9jCJWTAhoto8 02cUWxCwwGcV6g3zyTHoj2zX107eunf818Nz8+5wGe3oje9cs+GO7DJjdglB fRdmaSsHnNyxyQmwIFTbsSRXrRSMmcbO5NgdyK4dNsB8Y0l7YTat5VSkuwr6 jjealycFpMltWiKgSiII+08AxvlwIhOeg2gVLCnnuDGZvyEWYrqr17rqGAtQ bzkyvQqbuANo37UCt+KIMIxSdN9P7+vrEqqt -----------end_max5_patcher----------- </code></pre> I'm looking forward to checking out this patch! |
Posted on December 20 2009 by ian (report) |
| I just watched the video. It's fantastic! I understand the benefit of having it float around- so that you can visually work on multiple tracks at once. I could see a bay of these being in one track or a floating device... which gives me an idea! I will link it back to here once I find or make what I am thinking. |
Posted on December 20 2009 by ian (report) |
| I was think it might be nice to have a floating switch that returned the view to a track, specific screen, window, device, and possibly even auto-mapped. That would be just as cool as a floating bay (several of these) but that would be a major project. In the meantime, I might take your excellent patching and create a version of this that has a floating bay of maybe 4 of these. One question- While adjusting the loop length, the range seems to meander out of range. Always. Is there something I ma missing? Perhaps a method of binding this a specific range? |
Posted on December 20 2009 by ian (report) |
| I was think it might be nice to have a floating switch that returned the view to a track, specific screen, window, device, and possibly even auto-mapped. That would be just as cool as a floating bay (several of these) but that would be a major project. In the meantime, I might take your excellent patching and create a version of this that has a floating bay of maybe 4 of these. One question- While adjusting the loop length, the range seems to meander out of range. Always. Is there something I ma missing? Perhaps a method of binding this a specific range? |
Posted on December 20 2009 by ian (report) |
| I was think it might be nice to have a floating switch that returned the view to a track, specific screen, window, device, and possibly even auto-mapped. That would be just as cool as a floating bay (several of these) but that would be a major project. In the meantime, I might take your excellent patching and create a version of this that has a floating bay of maybe 4 of these. One question- While adjusting the loop length, the range seems to meander out of range. Always. Is there something I ma missing? Perhaps a method of binding this a specific range? |
Posted on December 20 2009 by ian (report) |
| Here is the fixed link for the floating example of buffer shuffler: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3579622/FLOATING%20BUFFER%20SHUFFLER.amxd |
Posted on December 21 2009 by ian (report) |
| Things to do include the shift functionality of the first "scene" i think i'll be replacing the buttons on the right with loop start, loop on/off and loop end for setting your own loop lengths as focus on clip is now a standard functionality of the APC40..... Then i'll look at the binding of the maximum value being the clip end, difficult at the moment unless you prgram each clip to cycle through loop on and off at the start of playing it to achieve the call on the clip_end to get the maximum, it;'ll happen but now everything seems to be working smoothly for me (and it looks good!) Feedback as ever is greatly appreciated including "what if you could" as well as "your code would be cleaner if...." Cheers D |
Posted on December 23 2009 by S4racen (report) |
| Things to do include the shift functionality of the first "scene" i think i'll be replacing the buttons on the right with loop start, loop on/off and loop end for setting your own loop lengths as focus on clip is now a standard functionality of the APC40..... Then i'll look at the binding of the maximum value being the clip end, difficult at the moment unless you prgram each clip to cycle through loop on and off at the start of playing it to achieve the call on the clip_end to get the maximum, it;'ll happen but now everything seems to be working smoothly for me (and it looks good!) Feedback as ever is greatly appreciated including "what if you could" as well as "your code would be cleaner if...." Cheers D |
Posted on December 23 2009 by S4racen (report) |
| Cool patch... In the spirit of "your code would be cleaner if....".... you make subpatchers of recurring bits of code. Than the patch would be better readable. Although I like your patch and ideas, I didn't investigate further after opening your patch, because of the million cables and such. You know what I mean? I mean this in a good way ofcourse... Especially with coding in Max this is important. So you can read your own code when you get back at your patch after a year or so.. Keep up the good work!! Ciao, chillyWilly |
Posted on December 27 2009 by chillywilly (report) |
| I think something's wrong with the download link; when I download I get the Libe LFO app Cheers Bert |
Posted on December 29 2009 by AuralBee (report) |
| It works this end for me? It's quite a large file so it was sent in via email but that should make it even more foolproof! Cheers D |
Posted on December 29 2009 by S4racen (report) |
| Same, this seems to be an LFO device? |
Posted on December 29 2009 by nepotist (report) |
| Same, this seems to be an LFO device? |
Posted on December 29 2009 by nepotist (report) |
| Esta nueva versión se ve bastante interesante, pero la descarga es un dispositivo de LFO con el nombre de su dispositivo "Clip Control v 2.4, muy curioso. saludo amigo |
Posted on December 29 2009 by plauto (report) |
| woops. sorry guys. I was helping the author troubleshoot this device earlier and uploaded an LFO as a test and forgot to change it back. I'll fix it soon and post when it's the right device. |
Posted on December 29 2009 by synnack (report) |
| Ok guys. Uploaded the right one for this device. Sorry for the confusion. |
Posted on December 29 2009 by synnack (report) |
| the Looping/Follow does not seem to work right at all. It either stops my track, puts the loop at the very end, or squashes my track to almost nothing. Not sure whats going on with that. I sure would like fine adjustments on the stutter etc. 16th and 32nd and possibly 64. I really appreciate your efforts man! You have become a real whiz on this stuff and I look forward to the updates. That being said, as cool as this device is, it's still not as smooth or efficient as the beat look up. That could be due to Max4Live just not being there yet. I really want there to be a day when most of my fx are "Native" to Ableton, so I greatly appreciate what your doing with it. |
Posted on December 30 2009 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| In the spirit of "it would be cool if" It had a "gate" sort of tremolo style function. And maybe a delay that when activated it cuts the incoming audio and leaves only the echo until released. Just a thought. Other than that this is only going to get tons better! |
Posted on December 30 2009 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Hi Juan, I'm not sure what the problem is your having with the loop functions, it works solidly at my end, that said it didn't used to and i tried all sorts of different things to get it to work before i reverted to the simplest of calling all the changes at the same time..... The stutters could easily go deeper, it just depends on the order of slices you send into the chucker object, currently it's sending 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc (24 steps) regardless of the size of the chucker (either 1 bar or two bars defined by the position of the 1/4's or 1/8ths switch) if you wanted smaller slices you'd need to work another switch into the mix to replace the messages sent into the chucker so instead they ran with 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 then depending on the length of the chucker you'd get your 16ths etc. And yes i've got two scenes left, the next works on stabs / switches for the A B & C sends (I'm hosting a neat beatrepeat rack in C to do my stutter work) and the final Scene was intended to do gate style cuts and chops (theres a couple of max devices in the library i'll be pulling apart to make this happen! Cheers D |
Posted on December 31 2009 by S4racen (report) |
| Hi, I have same problem as Juan. If I select the loop button (1/8,1/4 etc) and then "Off" button by mouse click, it's ok. Unfortanetaly if I use midi mapping and push button on midi controller, so length of the track is set up in the end of the loop. Pressing "Off" button stop looping, but all track too. I used Launchpad, but the buttons are triggers not toggles, so I tried toggle buttons in TouchOSC (iPhone) and same result. I don't know why, but with mouse click it's ok. Sorry for my poor English, I hope that you understand what I meaned. gawyss |
Posted on January 02 2010 by gawyss (report) |
| Hi, I have same problem as Juan. If I select the loop button (1/8,1/4 etc) and then "Off" button by mouse click, it's ok. Unfortanetaly if I use midi mapping and push button on midi controller, so length of the track is set up in the end of the loop. Pressing "Off" button stop looping, but all track too. I used Launchpad, but the buttons are triggers not toggles, so I tried toggle buttons in TouchOSC (iPhone) and same result. I don't know why, but with mouse click it's ok. Sorry for my poor English, I hope that you understand what I meaned. gawyss |
Posted on January 02 2010 by gawyss (report) |
| Cool thanks guys, I'll get a look at the midi side of it soon.... Just working on the shift functionality within the patch so no need for a seperate device to handle midi from the apc40, i'm setting it up using a nanokontrol which has enough butttons and knobs to do all eight tracks..... Oh and added extra divisions for the beatjumps which sound wicked, beat repeats on another scene as well.... Nearly there, thanks for all the feedback! Cheers D |
Posted on January 02 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| It's still downloading 2.4 not 2.5 |
Posted on January 13 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Good to go now!! Cheers D |
Posted on January 13 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| On the first version of this device the Looping worked great. Since then the Looping totally freaks out. It really just throws my clip out of whack. I'm not sure what it does to it. Something like throwing the Loop start position way to the back where there is no music. It sets the loop size all crazy too. Also I tested this device with one track and a bout 20 audio clips. Live started acting slow and buggy. Didn't really see CPU spikes, but it was acting like it was a major struggle. When I watched your video on this it baffles me, because it seems to run so smooth for you. HOWEVER, the beat Jumping is KILLER. Sorry to leave a downer of a post, I'm just really excited about this device and it doesn't seem to act right |
Posted on January 14 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Don't know whats going wrong at your end mate, currently rebuilding it from the ground up but having no problems as you describe them... Anyone else?? Things'll be easier with the next version to follow as it's a lot tidier.... And i've got one device on every track of 8 and now 5 audio effect racks before each and no noticeable slowdown... what buffer is your audio set to? Cheers D |
Posted on January 14 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| My buffer is set to 128samples. I use a live feed from a turntable and Traktor so I try to keep my Latency as low as possible. I would prefer lower, but I settle for that. Sometimes I raise it to 196 or so. I will use this device for my DJ sets, but for my band I will eventually extract your BeatJump section and isolate just that. Slowly but surely I will make something similar to the finger meets BeatLookUp. Still trying to kick the idea around in my head. If I can figure out how to make it half ass emulate what the finger can do I will be stoked. |
Posted on January 14 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Hi I've same problem as JuanSOLo :( Which version of Max and Ableton are you using? 5.1.0 and 8.1.0 or 5.1.1 and 8.1.1? If you want, I can record some video for better analysis. |
Posted on January 15 2010 by gawyss (report) |
| I'm using 8.1.1 Live and 5.1.1 Max (41439) Can you navigate to where the three calls are sent to the live object an click them in order of looping on, loop start and then loop end.... The patch calls the loop on and then delays the loop start and loop end call by one beat, this seems to be the only way that it doesn't confuse Ableton, i have it mapped to a momentary button on a nanokontrol and as you've seen from the videos rarely have a problem.... I'm a few days away from looking at it again having dived into the APC properly so if you get a chance to test any changes you make let me know and i can implement them in the new version, logically though i'm sure you'll agree there should be no problem.... Cheers D |
Posted on January 15 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| yeppp, thats sounds really awesome.. i just have a little problem : i'm running ableton on windows and when i launch the plugin, i have to wait for maybe 10 seconds for it to launch. Second, it is very slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww , actually, every time i press a button i have to wait for 3 seconds for its action. Is it happening to someone else ? because i really cant do anything .. :( |
Posted on January 19 2010 by tonycmoi (report) |
| @tonycmoi I'm also experiencing the same very slow reaction from clip control v. 2.5 on Mac OSX 10.5.8., Max/Msp 5.1.1., and Live 8.1.1. |
Posted on January 25 2010 by 7anu5 (report) |
| clip control v. 2.4 doesn't have the same laggy response on my system. Keep up the incredible work :-) |
Posted on January 26 2010 by 7anu5 (report) |
| thanks man, i moved things on a bit so i've branched into version 3.1 A lot less clunky than before.... Roadtesters required, especially now that the patch isn't just a mess of wires.... Only one audio effect in it so far in the beatjumps but these sound good so i hope i'm forgiven, many more to come but i need to delve into MSP for that so it might take me a while so i'll be ironing any kinks that people find out of this patch first before getting any deeper! Cheers D |
Posted on January 26 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| I'd definitely like to see a video. So far not everything is working. It sees my stop clips, activator, solo, cue, and device control knobs. Shift scene, does nothing. I cant locate the beat jumps either, and no led feed back. I'm not sure it will even navigate to it? The load button seems to act strange too. It seems to activate the 1st TBC button. I have tomorrow off. I'd love to figure this thing out. |
Posted on January 27 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Scratch that last post. I missed the part about the metronome being "shift" I will get at this tomorrow when I have had some rest. Thanks D. |
Posted on January 27 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| Sorry should've been clearer on the metronome button, mybe call it something different like scene selector to avoid confusion? It does leave the shift functionality intact though so you can press shift and the second button under the device control and bank the knobs to control the rack on the right.... Oh and i'll add to the descriptiuon as metronome plus track select button chooses the parameter that the right hand rack focuses on, just need to sort out the recording of values as at the moment every rack resets to the same values that i've set for my A&H vs DJM rack eg, 65 0 0 0 127 127 127 127... Need to dig into your preset thingymajig as it holds some good keys for me, i may also implement the send control that you've developed into one of the scenes as i intend to have track 8 as a summing track so you can group together a number of tracks for glitching, i'll also be resurrecting dummy clips in this track for my own set as there are some wicked transitions available when you spend some time drawing things out.... Cheers D |
Posted on January 27 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| The program will be released shortly for Novation Launchpad? Thanks Claudio |
Posted on February 05 2010 by clla (report) |
| Don't think so, i haven't got one.... Unless you want to send me one? Cheers D |
Posted on February 05 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| It's not working here. It loads and the apc lights up a bit but not correctly for every track and i just don't have any controller working. Iam using Ableton on win7 |
Posted on February 07 2010 by playschool (report) |
| You should only have one instance of this device, the others should be of the slave device linked to in the note above.... Then make sure you have loaded each instance by either midi mapping to the load button or pressing individually, you'll notice that the patch firstly goes to the shifted functionality so in the first case press metronome, track select one, then metronome and scene launch one.... It should then all be ready to use.... Cheers D ps new update with gating functionality tidied up beat repeats and a more secure disabling of the clip stop buttons is coming soon! |
Posted on February 07 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| oh i missed this ... thank's it helped :) |
Posted on February 08 2010 by playschool (report) |
| I'l get it poisted as soon as i can but if you go into the patch and locate the p disabler patcher within it (near the top to the right) then within this patcher the word button in the top left message of the patcher should read buttons, this will then properly disable the clip stop buttons rather then just on occasions.... New version soon i promise..... Cheers D |
Posted on February 08 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Great! I don't really know about max but i wanted to make the buttons correction and the box with Object / Message is full of "Live.object get : not valid object set" and "live.path invalid syntax" |
Posted on February 08 2010 by playschool (report) |
| Hi Darren Boy have you've been busy! So much good stuff crammed into this patch it's unreal! I'm loving the looping section & beat repeaty bit. Got similar problems to JuanSolo too though and maybe slightly new thing. Seems if i'm in scene 2/3 and using the stop clips, if i press the stop button for a clip that's playing, it sometimes stops the clip. It's like the stop buttons are not disabled. I've tried to remove as much of the midi mapped stuff as possible, particularly for the buttons your patch needs - don't think any midi mapped stone has been left unturned Any ideas? Could be a bug with M4L maybe? Really looking forward to the next update! Cheers Sunil |
Posted on February 08 2010 by mRpinC (report) |
| Yeah i've found that too.... The one i've got on my mac at home seems to fix this though with the tip on the disabler above.... For playschool above the error messages will stop when you have a clip playing, it's the followaction patcher that's producing the errors.... Cheers D |
Posted on February 09 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Wow just realised this patch is in the top five highest rated on there... Thank you all so much, well chuffed especially as i know it's been glitchy getting it to this point! Cheers D |
Posted on February 09 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| hey , i just saw that u replaced the "clip control" instrument by the APC40 thing. Do u think u'll update the old clip control to make a newer one or u will focus ur (nice) work on the apc ? Thanks anyway, Tony. |
Posted on February 12 2010 by tonycmoi (report) |
| Hi Tony, I'm just working on adding back in the ability to midi map the controls with the minimum number of buttons possible again, JuanSOLO and myself are working on improving the control surface 8x8 device so expect to see that first.... Cheers D |
Posted on February 13 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| you should make a short quickstart guide on how to set it up. I've downloaded the patch and to be honest, I have no idea what to do with it. For example, where am I supposed to put the device? is it on the master track? |
Posted on February 14 2010 by randomjavabass (report) |
| What apart from the detailed instructions above and the 5 videos on thestudiosessions.co.uk ? Cheers D |
Posted on February 14 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| you are a master. people are picky but all in all you are just a master. Thanks D! |
Posted on February 22 2010 by iowaultimate (report) |
| Is there suppose to be a master file? the link on the top is for the slave. |
Posted on February 24 2010 by romstah (report) |
| Things to do..... 1,Disable the scene launch buttons in the standard mode so that 5 banks of new controls can be added 2, Reverser that works on the stop all clips button 3, Reset left hand device on master track select and right hand device on shift plus master track select button Hello D. I just bought The APC40... How do I disable the stop button and Disable the scene launch buttons? Thanks from Italy |
Posted on February 25 2010 by clla (report) |
| Sorry guys, i've tried updating the patch to be version 3.4 of the master but things just don't seem to be working with the site at the moment..... clla, have you mapped the load button to the tap tempo button as per the instructions above? This will disable the stop button however the scene launch buttons still work as the default and only switch off when the metronome is held down.... Cheers D |
Posted on February 25 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Email me the 3.4 version and I'll replace that file for you manually - info@maxforlive.com |
Posted on February 26 2010 by synnack (report) |
| :-) works ......................:-) thanks thanks you are a great ....... My email... clau.dio@virgilio.it Cla |
Posted on February 26 2010 by clla (report) |
| D, I think i fixed your problem. Try to upload the 3.4 version again. |
Posted on February 26 2010 by synnack (report) |
| YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!!! I've just figured out how to disable the scene launch buttons permanently! Now got another 5 buttons x 5 scenes of mashing nonsense to code in.... Cheers D |
Posted on February 27 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Possible names (cool being relative) 1. DJC40 2. 40hurtz DJ blowout 3. CoutnlessControlz 4. Shennanagins 5. I forgot what the hell I'm doing 6. 8 by zillion 7. MonsterMash 8. the Disabler 9. Funky Chicken 10. KowleyKungFuManChu |
Posted on March 01 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| or the S400 |
Posted on March 01 2010 by JuanSOLO (report) |
| mmmmm quite like the S400 idea.... but i forgot what the hell i'm doing is probably closer to the mark!! Watched the APC20 video last night so will be taking over the volume faders for other goodness shortly, thinking of switching it to control a gater so you can gate out, or a reverb etc. just some different way of transitioning out of a track.... Cheers D |
Posted on March 01 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| APC40-Jugger |
Posted on March 03 2010 by simplicissimus (report) |
| This looks like a really cool patch but I have not had any luck getting it to work. I've looked around and haven't had any luck answering these questions: Am I supposed to drop APC40 Control Surface - DJ Edition 3.5 on Track 1 in my set and then use the 3.4 Slave on the rest of the tracks or do I use this patch on every track? When I drop just the APC40 Control Surface - DJ Edition 3.5 on Track 1 and then try to Midi Map the controls I am unable to select most of the controls. Do I need to do anything in Midi preferences in Live before using the control surface? Is it normal that the device takes a relatively long time to load when you drop it on a track? Is there some readme that I am missing or something? I'm new to your template. The potential seems enormous but I am missing a few steps between dropping the device on the track and having functionality. If these questions are answered elsewhere and I'm just missing it please point me there; I've looked through the videos and discussion in the comments here and in the the thread on the ableton forum. |
Posted on March 04 2010 by poolpartypizza (report) |
| The device is 17mb large so will take a while to first initialise.... if your using an apc40 no midi mapping is required bar mapping the load button to the tap tempo.... You should select apc40 as a control surface in the midi preferences and select the apc40 itself in both input and output drop down menus..... When the device has loaded press and hold the tap tempo twice to initialise the patch properly..... The Slave device may work but won't have all the functionality of the master as i'm currently working on the slave version to get it uploaded tommorrow..... sorry i don't have a readme as yet as the development is taking all my time..... Cheers D |
Posted on March 04 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Thanks for the quick response! I believe the not pressing the load button twice is what must have been throwing me off. Don't have my APC40 here in front me but will let you know once I've tried it out. Thanks again, looking forward to giving this a whirl! |
Posted on March 04 2010 by poolpartypizza (report) |
| Hmm, still not having any luck. I bound the load button to tap tempo and hit it twice. The Load button turns white then red again and the rack on the left flickers so I think that is working. However, none nothing else seems to work. Clicking the shift button on the screen displays the various scenes but pressing the shift on the APC40 does nothing or any of the stop buttons etc. The first knob on the Device Control of the APC40 does move the first knob of the left rack in the control surface but I can't seem to get any other input. Just to clarify for this work I simply download the patch, drag it to a track in my set, load it to initialise and the rest should click? This is what my MIDI preferences look like: http://ploader.net/files/89b6bc22f1ed95e7639140bf81263fb7.png Is that correct? I just can't seem to be able to figure what it is that I am doing wrong. If anyone has any tips please let me know. thanks much! |
Posted on March 04 2010 by poolpartypizza (report) |
| My apologies, the shift button is controlled by the metronome button on the APC40 and not the shift button which has too much going on to use it as a shift within max..... Realised i've deleted the original instructions, on the rack on the right double click the first top right button to the side of the knobs, it should be named according to the rack placed immediately after it..... If you have a look at the last video on my blog thestudiosessions.co.uk you'll see what i mean.... Cheers D |
Posted on March 04 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Thanks for the support. I discovered the root of the problem was with some of my midi preferences left over from when I'd been using Stray's nativeKontrol, for whatever reason it completely mucked up this surface. Got rid of all the old stuff and seems like the patch is working great. Got a big smile on my face, thanks again! |
Posted on March 04 2010 by poolpartypizza (report) |
| Glad to hear you got it working..... just developing a version that becomes even more configurable so that you can select any of the modes for the track select buttons and activate, cue and record so you can have any control you'd like on each scene.... Cheers D |
Posted on March 05 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Complimenti per il lavoro ben fatto Dopo 10 minuti lavorandoci un po si sbloccano le varie funzioni...una domanda...Potresti creare un rack più semplice solo con glitching - beat repeat - looping senza potenziometri - così da renderlo più leggero e che si possa caricare nelle varie traks liberamente senza creare conflitti? ringrazio anticipatapente saluti DJ Luca La Pira |
Posted on March 06 2010 by lucalapira (report) |
| There will be a slave device shortly that will allow a device in each track but no i won't be doing a scaled down version sorry! Cheers D |
Posted on March 06 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Hi Darren, first of all I would like to thank you for making such a great device.... but I have some problems: 1. When I use "glitch mode" the first beat is always on "slice 8" meaning that the eight clipstop button is the first step in a loop. 2. Also in this mode when I press on of the clip stop buttons it does not stop the effect when I release the button. To get the beat/track running normally I have to press emergency. 3. In glitch mode also sometimes one side of the signal gets lost. 4. and in this mode the "Slice2" tab is red,while the rest is grey... what does this mean? 5. Loop mode with the first 4 clip stop buttons setting on/off 1, 2 and 4 bar loops is working quite good, sometimes the playhead jumps to another position than it should be. This happens in steps of one or two bar, as soon as I change the loop lenght from 1 to 2 or 4 bars. 6. When I'm in a let's say 4 bar loop and this loop runs for 4 times and I then press Clip Stop Button 5 (Set In Point) the playhead jumps way forward and I guess it jumps forward exactly the time the loop was repeating. In this case 16 bars. So when I want to set a new "set in" point I frist have to select "loop off" and then can set it. 7. The setting of loop points does only work with the "Set In". Let's say I want to make a 8 bar loop with these two knobs. When I press clip stop button 6 ("Set Out") in the moment just before the end of bar 8, the loop is set to a lenght of 7bars and one quarter. It also doesn't matter how long I want to set the loop, pressing the "set Out" button always steals 3 quarters of the last bar and sets the loop to whatever desired length minus 3 quarters...??? 8. The beat repeat section only works by hazard. This means when I press e.g. the 1/64 button it does not give me a correct repeat of the section but alters randomly the repeating section. It seems that it buffers with every repeat new audio from the on going track... Also sometimes the buttons don't react at all and pressing them never gives me a reliable rhythmic result. These are the first issues I have with the device. I didn't test all the functions yet, but as long as these main features do not work in my case I unfortunately can't work with it at all... and I am sad about this... What am I doing wrong? My setup is a macbook pro with Live 8.1.1 and the actual max for live (not beta) release. If anyone could help me I would be very pleased. big Shouts for your device which would have the killer features if they would work in my setup... Cheers Stefan |
Posted on March 20 2010 by StefanHollaender (report) |
| Hi Stefan, Answers hopefully... 1,Not sure i can replicate this so i'll look into it, the first button can only ever play the first slice, but are you saying the lights are not in sequence? 2, This is caused by the loadbang not initialising in the correct order, what happens is that when you load the patch it leaves it stuck on slice 8 and so when glitching with another button you get the right glitch but then it get's stuck on, a manual workaround currently is to press each of the buttons before you start playing (i'll again fix this in the next version using some form of delayed bang however the main issue is a fault with M4L which has been acknowledged and documented on the C74 forum. 3, Fixed it with the next version, bear with me.... 4, The red of the tab is the size of the slice, if you turn the cue level knob on the apc whilst in this scene it'll change the rate of the glitching 5, Timing is the issue, it's worked to loop only on whole bars so if you've set a loop you need to be careful where you press the next loop set button as if you've passed a start of bar point it will use this new point as the start marker. You're better off changing loop lengths using the half and double buttons after they have been set..... 6, Yes.... The set function will only function correctly if you're setting the loop on an unlooped clip, not for editing a currently looped clip. I hope to fix this later but it's behaviour is as erratic as the loop_jump_point bang..... 7, Obviously something wrong with my maths on this one, i'll look into it and get it fixed.... 8, The Beatrepeat is based on the chucker object and so as such the audio is replaced with each bar, the point at which the stutter occurs is quantized to 16ths so that it's more likely you'll hit audio that sounds better sonically.... I can't talk for the buttons not working as they function every time for me? |
Posted on March 22 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| can someone please explain me how to make this patch work? - do i need to load also other plugs after/before this patch on the same track? - when i load the patch on track 1, im getting instant glitches... it would be so great of someone could explain step by step how to make this thing work. thanks a lot! pony |
Posted on March 23 2010 by ponybob (report) |
| @Darren: Thank you very much that you took the time to answer my questions so in detail... Unfortunately due to my job as producer at a radio station I can only give it a try again on the weekend. I check it again with your comments and give you feedback. Thanks Stefan |
Posted on March 23 2010 by StefanHollaender (report) |
| No worries Stefan, will upload the next version by then anyway! Hi Ponybob (cool name) Place this device on the first track after an ableton rack (have a copy of this same rack on each of the other 7 tracks in your template) and then place ableton racks after the device.... Keymap or midi map the load button that sticks out from the left hand set of 8 knobs and then press and hold (button will turn red) and press and hold again (button will return to grey)... The device will take a while to load based on all the objects and paths within it that need to initialize, then double click the tab to the right hand side of the right hand set of eight knobs, working from top to bottom these should have the names of the ableton racks you've placed after Isotonik..... You can now take control of the device with the apc as demonstrated in the setup videos on vimeo.com/studiosessions... For more detailed instructions check out the posts on the ALDJ or Ableton forum..... http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=132132 I promise i'll make a detailed guide once i've finished patching which isn't far away.... Cheers D |
Posted on March 23 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Quando sarà disponibile la versione 3.6? |
Posted on March 26 2010 by lucalapira (report) |
| I sent a message on Facebook Luca!! Cheers D |
Posted on March 26 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| I'm encountering the same problem as Stefan's first one he mentioned above. It seems the beats and the lights of the slices are not synced properly. Anyway, great stuff and thanks for your massive efforts! |
Posted on April 05 2010 by dn6280 (report) |
| Yes mate, it is fixed for the next version but i've got some heavy work involved in streamlining it so you can actually get control over 8 tracks using the slave device i've built to go with it... I'm currently at 6 tracks so some more streamlining to go before i update it but as an idea i'm on version 4.1 (i update the number everytime i make a major change in case i have to rollback, i'll rvert to version 1.0 when i;ve finished the damned thing! I'm also working on a template filled with effects racks and the like which i'll be sending out to anyone who wants it through my blog thestudiosessions.co.uk (leave me a message with your email address!!) Cheers D Cheers D |
Posted on April 06 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| I'm feeling a bit stupid. I can't even get the patch to load. Other max patches are dropping in fine, but this one isn't coming up. I tryed double clicking it. I tried dragging it in, but it won't let me drop it anywhere; not on the audio track, not on a midi track. Did I miss something? |
Posted on April 11 2010 by sleepyhead (report) |
| It takes a minute to load up..... Other than that i dont know.... cheers D |
Posted on April 11 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Still nothing. Does it matter how many tracks I have loaded? I should be able to open a new set and drop it straight in right? The slave isn't working either. Is it the version? Anyone else having a problem? |
Posted on April 12 2010 by sleepyhead (report) |
| I think I found the problem... APC40 Control Surface - DJ Edition 3.5.amxd = file size 0kb on disk. Can you check the file on server? |
Posted on April 12 2010 by sleepyhead (report) |
| This version is still downloading as 0kb. Would someone mind sending a working file to my email? pyro103uz@yahoo.com Thanks in advance |
Posted on April 13 2010 by sleepyhead (report) |
| Sorry mate it's too big to email!! It's not my site to check the server..... I'll send you the template though when i get home, it's just uploading whilst i'm at work.... Cheers D |
Posted on April 14 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| hello, the file is not good (0kb). can you send it to me by e-mail? marrocco@marrocco.ch thank in advance ;o) |
Posted on April 14 2010 by marrocco (report) |
| If you need it emailed then please leave me a message through my blog thestudiosessions.co.uk then i can maintain the mailing list from one source... Cheers D |
Posted on April 14 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Much appreciated if you could email it to me at pfan888@hotmail.com Thank you :o) |
Posted on April 15 2010 by FANiAM888 (report) |
| Sorry guys, please do not post your email addresses here, if you want to be on the mailing list leave me a comment on my blog. In the meantime Clint's working hard to fix the download issues... Cheers D |
Posted on April 15 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| My apologies for leaving my email address here. Quick question... How do I put the slave version of the control surface in track 2,3,4,,5,6,7,8 is there a difference??? or is the slave patch something I need to download and if so where do I find it??? Your assistance is needed and greatly appreciated. The anticipation to get this to work is killing me. :oP |
Posted on April 15 2010 by FANiAM888 (report) |
| Hi FANiAM888 I've put the link for the Slave device in the description of this device.... Youneed the master on track one and the slave goes on as many other tracks as your system can handle without crashing with an out of memory error. I run it stably with 4 tracks being controlled on my macbook but the tower manages 6 (i don't know why!) Cheers D |
Posted on April 16 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| Changed a php memory setting and now this device seems to download fine for me. Let me know if any of you have problems still with it at info@maxforlive.com -Clint |
Posted on April 20 2010 by synnack (report) |
| still can't find the load button on trak1 master so I can assign it to tap button on my apc40..i think i'm still not really clear what suppose to do |
Posted on April 23 2010 by donspy (report) |
| Seriously? Right hand set of knobs, button with Load written on it? Double click rather than midi map then you have the tap tempo button still available for it's original purpose..... Cheers D |
Posted on April 24 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| 3000 Downloads, 100 comments (half of them by me obviously lol !) Thanks everyone who's downloaded, working on my next device that's give simple smart knob control over Ableton effects racks..... Cheers D |
Posted on May 05 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| i understand that darren is in music mode these days, good for him. would anyone, who has this up and running, care to give a step by step tutorial please? also, is this different from the "dj edition"? if so where can i get it? thanks |
Posted on May 31 2010 by beatskk (report) |
| Hi there, This is the natural development of the DJ edition, it gained a name to give it a bit of an identity..... named after an old hardcore artist who recorded "different strokes" Step by Step is tricky, you might want to watch the videos on my vimeo channel www.vimeo.com/studiosessions.... Version 5 is immenent as part of a live template that includes a full manual.... Cheers D |
Posted on May 31 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| need older version (2.3 or 2.4) 4.3 not works properly :( or need another plugin for just beatjuggling like beatlookup. just for buffering stream and split to 8 parts and knob for select time of repeat and button for on|off repeating. like in isotonik. anybody have something like it?? :D ssry for my English |
Posted on June 21 2010 by NKRDBL (report) |
| Hi NKRDBL, I'm not updating this device anymore, you may be able to extract to beatjump patcher from within it to suit your needs, alternatively version 5.8 is fully midi mappable and available through my blog http://thestudiosessions.co.uk Cheers D |
Posted on June 21 2010 by S4racen (report) |
| How come when I download this I get v6? |
Posted on March 20 2011 by doperdeluxe (report) |
| Because the link to download is in the description.... Cheers D |
Posted on March 26 2011 by S4racen (report) |
| Isotonik 8 is now released, the Lite device will be updated in line with the new look and have some new functionality as well.... ;-) Cheers D |
Posted on October 16 2011 by S4racen (report) |
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It only seems to be working in Track 1. When you say " you'll need to enter into the patch the track number that it sits on,"
where do you enter that? It's like I dont get an option for that.
Can't wait to see the rest of it working. This is really awesome.