Trigger, Map, and Transpose Midi Clip across keyboard?

James Girard

Hi there,

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. .

Evan

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.