I will pay someone $$ to modify a patch for me. I don't have time to learn how
I am using a patch for Ableton live called Ms. Pinky. It is pretty much just a patch that allows you to use time-coded vinyl (or cd) to scratch clips within the live set. (http://mspinky.com/ms-pinky-max-for-live/)
The problem is, I am using a midi jogwheel to scratch (Numark Mixtrack II), not time-coded vinyl, and the patch will not let me control the scratching capability.
I have been told that this is a pretty straightforward modification. I love everything else about the patch, I just need this one thing modified.
Any takers?
I would try and learn how to do this myself, but quite honestly I am not interested in learning an entire coding language just to be able to use this Numark DJ controller to scratch clips once in a while.
You'd need someone that owns the patch first and thats a limited audience, you may try hunting down Mutis Mayfield or JuanSOLO on the Ableton Forum... Both have moved onto other projects now as it seems MsPinky is a bit dead in the water...
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Thanks for your reply. Why is MsPinky "dead in the water"? Have people moved on to scratching within Ableton another way? Im really just looking for anything else that lets me scratch my audio clips via my jog wheel.
Did you ever get this figured out? I'm interested in the same thing.
I have had very bad experience designing software for essentially anonymous users, especially in the music community, there are alot of scammy people. After providing software I was told by several internet clients they actually wanted something different and refused to pay. Two people contacted me saying they wanted to hire me for something which required buying something first, which I later found out they were selling themselves. So I asked for money in advance and never heard from either of them again. That was in fact the last time I tried to sell any music software at all.
Music software in particular seems to attract the worst kind of people. I was selling music software for a while, and I was sneered, pirated, cyberattacked, and one person even tried to blackmail me into buying ads on his site. Since then I have had no plans to sell anything or provide any paid services to anonymous users.
I made some experiences, too. The biggest problem is if the guy doesn't exactly know what he wants or doesn't have a clue what's possible in m4l. But in this case he seems to know.
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Because as we all know, artists don't eat...
Besides having a device custom made, which sounds logistically painful, wouldn't someone be interested in modifying the Ms Pinky patch to give it midi jog integration? I'm a max noob and while I am interested in learning it, I don't know how long it would take b4 I could build a device like this. People may think Ms pinky is dead but if it had midi jog integration and possibly even sync it would open the doors to some powerful and versatile usage within ableton for djing. Someone could just sell the patch. It all seems within reach and worthwhile for the right person. If that ends up being me then so be it, but dj-like control within ableton is far from dead.
I would be open to doing this for the right price, though I'm not sure about the legality of you sending me the M4L patch for modification as I don't own the product myself and have no need to purchase it..
I've done this kind of thing with ms pinky in the past and have some patches somewhere.
One way to do it is to play the ms pinky cd mp3 signal, link it to the position of the jog wheel and feed that signal into the pinky object.
Hello!
First of all thanks for mention me as a reference but I'm still a student... Well even neither because I'm just right now selling my mac mini and no came back to desktop software due I'm more focused in tablet/dedicated hardware set.
I don't want to bore you about why and so but imho nowadays Traktor offers the best of the "live looping scratcheable deck" concept and stems make it even better for lineal and mashup producers.
Anyways I could point someone to the right direction but everyone could find most of my ideas and howtos at pinky's forum.
To achieve what we are talking (midi input control) you may take in consideration there are not standard in scratch jogs so it makes the process a bit mesh and overhealming for something which could be done with vinyl and should be more "logical" but I learned by the hard way something: Djing is far from innovative and djs are far from flexible people.
Left this aside the process will be something like midi in (beap module could do it), which usually is a pair of CC or pitch bend commands (working as a quadrature encoder) and giving the "ticks" and "direction" of the jog. These could be parsed into a waveform object (ms. Pinky ie but maybe the new ones at max7 could do the job) to control playback backwards/forwards. Output the audio signal to ~DAC (maxforlive instrument device should be the right choice for this kind of patch) and you have it.
Another thing will be fix the "non warped" audio issue and advanced features that could be add to the whole system making it better than The Bridge, Traktor remix decks and so but that...
Is another history.
Hope it helps.
-m!