Once you see that this is indeed how things are supposed to work in the Poly-out device, building a filter to only let through the right Control Change messages is easily accomplished by means of a Route object. You’ll need to in order to keep your sanity once we get to Push ) Please take a moment to think this through, to make sure you understand how this works. And the Control Change messages (representing key pressure values) that we want to use in this specific Instrument Rack Chain, are precisely those CC messages for which the Controller Number (first number in the list coming out of the third outlet of Midiparse) matches the Note number of the Note-on that was let through the Gate. īy definition, from the way voice allocation works, the Gate object will let through Note-on and Note-off pairs, while blocking all other incoming notes that arrive in between. For me, this is probably the single most valuable thing Max offers: putting all types of data on a level playing field, allowing me to reimagine (and if necessary to subvert) the tools I have available to serve my personal and often idiosyncratic ends.Īs you remember (hopefully) from part 1, inside each Poly-out device incoming notes are filtered by the voice numbers that are coming in as Pitch Bend midi messages. To be able to use those, not just with dedicated VST’s, but with native Ableton Instruments and Effects would be nice, and the current system could be a take-off point for that.įinally, I think the workaround involves some interesting and generally instructive ways to use (midi) data in Max in unconventional ways. In the future this might lead to new types of midi data being available in Ableton Live. Third, Polyphonic Expression has recently been added to the official Midi protocol. Second, while the tutorial is focussed on Ableton Push (generation 1), the same approach should in principle work for other devices outputting polyphonic aftertouch, from ‘traditional’ midi keyboards to alternative controllers like Push 2, Launchpad and QuNeo, to mobile apps. There’s a couple of reasons for this.įirst and foremost: the workaround is a bit hacky and might require some tweaking by the user understanding what’s actually going on, might help in making the necessary tweaks. Moreover, I thought it best to share it as a tutorial, rather than as a ready made collection of devices/patches.

Ableton note tutorial