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eComper

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Use the eComper plug-in to consolidate a MIDI clip to a video file without leaving Ableton Live. You can drag the newly created video clip directly from eComper’s interface to an audio track or an eSampler/eSimpler, to use it immediately in your Live set.

Adding the eComper plug-in to your Live set

To add the eComper plug-in to your Live set, just drag the plug-in from the EboSuite plug-ins folder to a MIDI track containing one or more eSamplers. The eComper plug-in can only be used on a MIDI track and can only create a video clip using the video samples that are loaded in the eSampler plug-ins on that track.

Consolidate a MIDI clip to a video file

Once an eComper plug-in is loaded on a MIDI track containing one or more eSamplers, just select a MIDI clip on that MIDI track and press the ‘Convert selected clip’ button on the eComper’s interface. After pressing this button you will be asked to type in a name for the newly created video file and to select a destination. The eComper will store the video file in this location and will show a Quicktime icon in the eComper’s interface that links to the video file. You can now easily drag the newly created video file directly from the eComper’s interface to an eSampler or on an audio track for further use by dragging the icon to that location.

Rendering versus compiling

The eComper does not actually ‘render’ a movie file, but rather ‘compile’ a movie file. Based on the order of MIDI notes in a MIDI clip it will copy/paste the video fragments assigned to those notes in the same order and save them as a new video file. The eComper only takes the start point settings into account and ignores other settings, like the ADSR, velocity, pitch, audio effects, automation etc. The eComper works great for compiling basic video edits and video beats. Read the ‘Record the video output’ section of this manual to learn how to record more complex video edits, melodies and video mixes.

Adding an alternative audio track to the compiled video file

Because the eComper doesn’t take velocity, the ADSR or audio effects into account, you can drop an alternative audio file into the dropzone in the eComper’s interface, that then will be added to the compiled video file. You can for example first render the audio of the MIDI clip using Ableton Live’s audio export feature (with all the audio effects and velocity changes) and then drop this audio clip into the dropzone in the eComper’s interface.

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eLoopStutter

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Use the eLoopStutter plug-in to bring dynamic ‘beat repeat’-like effects to the eSession plug-in.

Adding the eLoopStutter plug-in to your Live Set

To add eLoopStutter to your Live set, just drag the plug-in from the EboSuite plug-in folder to an audio track containing video clips and the eSession plug-in.

Stutter On/Off

When the stutter effect is turned on it starts looping a smaller portion of the clip, starting from the current playback position. When stuttering is turned off it continues at the point where it would have been if stutter hadn’t been engaged.

Note: The clip needs to be warped to use eLoopStutter (in Live 10 the Warp Markers need to be saved for EboSuite to use this information).

Stutter length buttons

Press the stutter loop length buttons while stutter is still ON to change the looplength.

Map as Single parameter

eLoopStutter can be controlled in two ways:

  • With separate buttons for the loop length and stutter enabling (for example when you want to control it with a MIDI interface with buttons or keys).
  • With one parameter (when you want to control it with one dial).

Load RAM

If you start the stutter effect with a small loop you will notice that you can hear a bit more than the desired loop. This is because Ableton has already pre-buffered the clip’s playback from the disk (this is also dependent on your harddrive’s speed). If you load the clip’s audio track into RAM looping will be instantaneous. To make it easier to control the RAM settings for each clip, a button is included in the eLoopStutter’s interface for this. This button has the same effect as the RAM button in the clip’s Sample View (so the status of this button will change simultaneously). Please note that this might fill your system’s RAM if you forget to unload it after use.

eLoopStutter works best on longer clips, such as full songs. On short loops it might lead to some odd results where the ‘stutter-loop’ contains a portion of silence or that the playback stops when you disengage the effect.

This effect can also be used with audio-only clips of course. Most effects can be achieved by Ableton’s ‘beat repeat’ already, but the different way the parameters are handled makes it still worthwhile to check it out with audio-only clips.

Quick-tip (version 1.7)

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ePoly

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Use the ePoly plug-in to control multiple eSamplers at the same time to create polyphonic/polyscopic compositions.

Adding the ePoly plug-in to your Live set

To add the ePoly plug-in to your Live set just drag the plug-in from the EboSuite plug-ins folder to a MIDI track.

Polyphonic/Polyscopic

The ePoly plug-in distributes incoming MIDI notes over eSamplers on MIDI tracks to the right side of the MIDI track it is loaded on. This way you can control multiple eSamplers on different MIDI tracks at the same time to create harmonies (polyphonic). Because the eSamplers are loaded on different MIDI tracks you can combine them individually with eFX and an eTrackTransform plug-in to create a visual arrangement (polyscopic).

ePoly will automatically look for eSampler plug-ins on MIDI tracks to the right side of the track it is loaded on. ePoly will show these tracks in the interface, represented as green dots.

Polyphony pop-up menu

Use the polyphony pop-up menu to set the maximum number of notes that are allowed to play simultaneously (and are distributed over an equal number of eSamplers). According to the selected Mode.

Mode

This parameter determines how the incoming notes are distributed. The following allocation modes are available:

  • First: incoming MIDI notes will be send to the first non playing voice (eSampler on MIDI track to the right side) – Up: incoming MIDI notes will be send to the first non playing voice increasing from previous
  • Up/Down: incoming MIDI notes will be send to the first non playing voice increasing from previous and going back down from max (outer voices are used less)
  • Random: random, but without repetition
  • Oldest: available note with longest off time

Stealing

If you play more than the maximum number of notes you can choose to overtake running notes in various ways. (There is one exception: if the value of this parameter is ‘Mode’ than the Mode parameter has priority and can overtake notes before the maximum number is reached). The following stealing modes are available:

  • Off: off
  • Highest: highest playing
  • Lowest: lowest playing
  • Mid: NOT highest/lowest playing
  • Random: random
  • Oldest: longest on
  • Closest: closest note number
  • Mode: using allocation mode without checking if it is playing or not

Reset

Allows you to reset the Mode and Stealing history in order to be able to have a reproducible result.

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