MIDI EFFECTS

• Mime
• Stairway
• Dice
• CC Manager (XS & XL)

AUDIO EFFECTS

• Mime
• Stairway

MIME

This pair of audio and MIDI effects are mostly designed to first capture organic gestures performed in their X/Y panels and use them after as control agents for both external parameters and others within Ableton Live.

Mime features two main sections. The first one creates, records, plays back and saves X/Y coordinates. The second uses them to shape four individual control sources, defining different kinds of MIDI control messages (CC, Pitch Bend, Aftertouch, etc) or simply mapping specific Live parameters from the control outputs located in the Route section.

STAIRWAY

Stairway is a simple but versatile audio/MIDI effect that offers a different approach to randomness as a source for expression and control. It generates patterns from a limited group of values, used to produce real time modulations over external devices and parameters inside Live. From a maximum of eight possible values to choose from, Stairway creates unpredictable combinations depending on a set of parameters that will add more or less variations to the sequence.

DICE

Just like most devices featured in the Control Pack, this MIDI effect is mostly designed to enhance musical expression by first randomizing Note messages and using them after as instrument triggers or control values for external parameters and others within Ableton Live. Dice features two main sections. The first adds individual degrees of randomness to incoming Note and Velocity values. The second uses both as control sources, either by defining different kinds of MIDI control messages (CC, Pitch Bend, Aftertouch, etc) or by simply mapping specific Live parameters from the output rows located in the Route section.

CC MANAGER

Both XL and XS versions of this Max for Live MIDI effect are designed to display and easily manage up to eighteen MIDI Control Change messages, commonly used as modulation source for external devices such as synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, or any other instrument that enables remote control by this specific type of message. CC Manager offers an intuitive interface for scenarios where multiple parameters ask for simultaneous control, when their changes must be extremely precise, or even if they are just too complex to be manually performed.

MIDI OUTPUT FORMATS

Depending on what instrument or device is receiving the information, control sources can be formatted as:

• CC or Control Change. This type of message always feature two different yet simple elements. These are used by the receiver to identify what specific parameter is now being controlled (CC Number) and what is that parameter’s new state or position after the message is received (CC Value). In this case, values are defined by the incoming source and the number is determined by the CC X box that is displayed when this format is chosen.
• PB or Pitch Bend. Generally used to bend an instrument’s pitch up and down, but its effect ultimately depends on how the receiver is configured to interpret this specific type of message.
• MW or Modulation Wheel.
• FC or Foot Control.
• AT or Aftertouch.
• Off prevents a row’s MIDI information from being output. Its Map function still remains independent.

These formats are particularly useful when working with instruments like Sampler, Operator or even Wavetable, all of which offer a versatile modulation section for very specific parameters that otherwise would not support MIDI mapping nor clip automation.