James Girard

I am wondering whether it is possible to trigger, map, and transpose an ableton midi clip across the keyboard. If this doesn.t make sense I have an example below that hopefully will.

I know within live it is easy to use the midi effect settings to have live trigger a chord or generate an arp pattern. Instead of triggering an chord or an arp, I would like to have a single piano key trigger a midi clip of notes. I would like to be able to set a root note for the midi clip and then have the clip be mapped out and transposed over the entire keyboard.

So for an overly simple example, I record a clip of myself playing 4 C4 quarter notes in 4/4. I map this midi clip to C4 and then have it mapped and transposed over the entire keyboard so that if I play D4, D4 is played 4/4 times.

Has anyone been able to accomplish anything like this or seen a max for live device that can do it? Is something like this possible or would it be fairly simple to create within max for live? I have no experience with it.

Thanks so much for any help you can provide. .

I am wondering whether it is possible to trigger, map, and transpose an ableton midi clip across the keyboard. If this doesn.t make sense I have an example below that hopefully will. 

I know within live it is easy to use the midi effect settings to have live trigger a chord or generate an arp pattern. Instead of triggering an chord or an arp, I would like to have a single piano key trigger a midi clip of notes. I would like to be able to set a root note for the midi clip and then have the clip be mapped out and transposed over the entire keyboard. 

So for an overly simple example, I record a clip of myself playing 4 C4 quarter notes in 4/4. I map this midi clip to C4 and then have it mapped and transposed over the entire keyboard so that if I play D4, D4 is played 4/4 times. 

Thanks so much for any help you can provide. .


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Do you absolutely need the MIDI notes to be held within a clip? If so, it's possible, but probably quite a pain. In your example, once you map a note to a clip, that's the note it responds to. You can't map multiple notes to a clip. If you map C4 to a clip, D4 won't do anything. There are ways to circumvent this, but it seems like way too much work for something that is simple if approached from a different angle.

This process would be greatly simplified if you didn't have to reference a clip in Live for the note info. You could easily do this with max, if you had a colllection of notes (your chord) and then depending on what MIDI note you send in, it would transpose those notes accordingly.

Do you absolutely need the MIDI notes to be held within a clip? If so, it's possible, but probably quite a pain. In your example, once you map a note to a clip, that's the note it responds to. You can't map multiple notes to a clip. If you map C4 to a clip, D4 won't do anything. There are ways to circumvent this, but it seems like way too much work for something that is simple if approached from a different angle.
This process would be greatly simplified if you didn't have to reference a clip in Live for the note info. You could easily do this with max, if you had a colllection of notes (your chord) and then depending on what MIDI note you send in, it would transpose those notes accordingly.


Trigger, Map, and Transpose Midi Clip across keyboard?