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I am in the process of porting a Max rhythm device of mine to live. I am wanting to make it as a midi instrument, and for each voice to be able to have individual processing put on it, for instance a filter on the snare, a distortion on the kick, etc.

I can't see any way to do this in Max for Live, other than building the processing into the instrument, but ideally I'd like to be able to select processing in a similar way to drum rack, where it can be dragged and dropped onto a particular voice.

Any workarounds or really obvious things I'm missing?

drum-rack-style-routing-in-a-single-track

You're posting is way to abstract to get a serious answer. How about some details?

Is it? Perhaps my powers of explanation are failing me, sorry if this is the case.

The only other details I can think to give are that it is an 8 voice drum sample player, and I would like each voice to have separate processing, whereby I can select different Live effects devices per voice. Then I would like to mix down all 8 voices, with effects, to a stereo channel, so that the whole device would fit on a single Live midi track, and be playable as a single instrument.

The only other details I can think to give are that it is an 8 voice drum sample player, and I would like each voice to  have separate processing, whereby I can select different Live effects devices per voice. Then I would like to mix down all 8 voices, with effects, to a stereo channel, so that the whole device would fit on a single Live midi track, and be playable as a single instrument.


I didn't think it was too abstract, just not really possible currently.

You could put the separate parts of your kit in a rack.But for effects routing like you want, you'd probably need multi channel output from a device in order to deal with polyphony. If you were only playing one sound at a time, you might be able to use live.remote~ to adjust sends in the track or something

Got it. Thank you Andrew. Hmm, I think for now the best solution is just to build the effects into the device, as it's pretty likely I will be using the device polyphonically, and separating it into different rack elements would be unwieldy as it has its own internal step sequencer.

Just a thought: assuming that each note (pitch) of the sequencer triggers a particular voice, you could put the sequencer as midi effect device in front of an instrument rack containing multiple instances of a monophonic sample player. This would allow to insert audio effects for the individual voices.

Hmm, I see what you mean, perhaps this is a good long term solution, to separate the sequencer and each voice. Probably more of a project than I have time for right now, as I would have a lot of work to do making each voice read from its proper place in the buffer (there is some transient detection going on). But good to know there is a possible workaround.

Drum rack style routing in a single track.