On live pro, when scanning between animations on beats, is there a way to lock the scan to a single row or column of cues?
Also, an easy way to advance a cue on every 2nd beat or every 4th without retapping the beat sense?
Steve
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On live pro, when scanning between animations on beats, is there a way to lock the scan to a single row or column of cues?
Also, an easy way to advance a cue on every 2nd beat or every 4th without retapping the beat sense?
Steve
Hi Steve
Yes there is, well for a line of cues anyway.
Have a look on the taskbar at the top of the LivePRO cues. There you should see a little arrow pointing downwards, it's towards the right hand side, this is called the 'beat action' and it enables the 'jump to the next cue in line' action. If you click on this you will notice that the column of greyed out controls at the right of the cues becomes active.
You will now see that each row of cues has its own individual set of 'beat' controls, these can be switched on and off by clicking on them. The top control towards the left of each section is for automatically selecting the next cue in sequential order, the bottom control is selecting the next cue in random order, and the up/down control with a number is a setting for how many beats of the music before the next cue (in that row) becomes active.
You will notice that when you click one of these controls for each line of cues that the control turns red to show that it is active. Therefore if you just want one line of cues active you would only have one of these controls switched 'on', if you want two lines of cues active you would have two controls showing red etc.
Don't forget to get this to work you have to select a beat source, either the LivePRO plugin on winamp or a beat via the spacebar etc.
I hope that helps and it's not confused you even more :)
Cheers
Jem
P.S. Forgot to mention, you have to click a random cue in each line of cues to make that line become active when playing. It gets quite interesting if you have a line of cues responding to say every 4th beat and another line of cues responding to every 8th beat etc. etc.
Sounds like you need to run the next Live Pro session at the next UKLEM, Jem ......
;)
Jem
P.S. Forgot to mention, you have to click a random cue in each line of cues to make that line become active when playing. It gets quite interesting if you have a line of cues responding to say every 4th beat and another line of cues responding to every 8th beat etc. etc.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, a night club 40 minutes to the north of here installed a QM and I've been playing.
You should make a DVD on Live Pro and sell it.
Steve
SIGN ME UP!! I'll be your first buyer! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mixedgas
Thanks for the kudos guys :D
However, Mark (Insanity) is the one I consider to be the UK's resident expert on LivePRO. He helped me out loads when I first got the program, he's particularly nifty with MIDI and LivePRO ;). One other thing you should know... I really am the worlds worst teacher :eek:, I even get myself confused to the point where I misbehave and have to discipline myself :D
There really is no substitute for sitting down and playing with LivePRO. It's only then can you even begin to appreciate the enormity and depth of the program, it really is an absolute work of art. I've spent hours at it and don't consider that i've even scratched the surface yet.
My latest task is playing with (and trying to get a better understanding of) the abstractions editor in LivePRO. This works slightly differently to the abstractions editor in LD2000 and so far it's looking really promising, there seems to be much better control over each different aspect of the abstract. I'm trying to build up a page of my own abstract cues. The animated text editor is pretty cool as well. These are features that are easily missed until you start to delve deeper.
Cheers
Jem
See - that has "win" written all over it. I'd pay money for a LivePRO tutorial DVD that included shit like that! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Jem
I agree 100% here. You've just got to fool around with it. Much like the Abstract generator, LivePRO has lots of hidden strengths that aren't immediately obvious.Quote:
There really is no substitute for sitting down and playing with LivePRO. It's only then can you even begin to appreciate the enormity and depth of the program, it really is an absolute work of art. I've spent hours at it and don't consider that i've even scratched the surface yet.
Still, I'd love to see a tutorial DVD someday. Maybe you and Mark can produce one together?
Adam
Sorry to go off on a tangent here but I've just got a quick question:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jem
Is this the same abstract editor as the one from the LA Studio package?
I've been playing around with that a little and threw in a page full of 'cues' after messing around with the oscillators on a few. Then I stuck on the auto change button so it randomly jumped to another cue after a fixed interval. Absolutely nothing like LivePro (still hoping to get that in a few weeks) but I was surprised at it's simplicity.
However I had to load in each cue ONE BY ONE which took bloody ages. Then after I'd finished messing, I couldn't find a way to save the collective 'workspace' of all the windows I'd got open. I could only save individual files. Could someone point me in the right direction? As it would be a real shame if this feature wasn't available.
Also does anyone know If I could export some abstraction files as say .ild and then import them into LiveQuick/Pro for 'show use'.
I couldn't find how to do that...
Ta,
Dan :)
No. LA Studio has it's own abstract generator. The one that comes with LD-2000 is different.Quote:
Originally Posted by danielbriggs
As for exporting from LA Studio - I'm not sure. I haven't spend enough time working with LA Studio. :o
Adam
Cheers Adam,
Ah well... it was worth a shot :o
Dan :)
TBF, i think that the Playtime workspace has details of how to set this functionality up within the included files/help (for use with the 'beat' tab)