NS2: switching slots A/B via midi (ext. sequencer...)

[jesav]

Hi guys,

Just a quick message to create this topic.

A few days ago I started prepping live sessions, organizing my sounds, etc etc... And since I do a lot of stuff in real live conditions (playing / tweaking / etc...), I had this idea that I didn't want to take care of the bank / program / slot changes manually. In this case, I'm talking about my NS2 88 connected to Ableton Live 9 Suite via USB. I knew Ableton could do this for me, after all it also does some effects automation and stuff. It requires a long preparation and a lot of midi programming in one session, but it's convenient for me.

Anyways. I figured out easily how to make the switch between my banks and sounds: a midi track with program changes informations does the job really well. But I totally forgot about the switch between slot A and slot B. I use the slots a lot when I build a sound. I can be two different piano sounds, it can be a piano drowned in reverb on A and a Rhodes on B, it can be two synths stacked together, whatever.

I started searching and didn't find how to do it in Ableton Live. So I asked here, and pablomastodon rescued me:

"Slot Focus is cc #68. Send a midi message on that cc# <64 and Slot A will be in focus. >64 and Slot B will be in focus."

Just what I needed. Now I've got a new midi track that takes care of this for me. I haven't found yet how to have both slots A and B focused, but I guess it won't take long

Thanks again for the help !!! Hope this thread can help you guys if you have the same problem.

Bisous from Paris.

Jeremy.

[neolithic]

Thanks for sharing, and thanks to Pablo of course!

[pablomastodon]

and pablomastodon rescued me:

"Slot Focus is cc #68. Send a midi message on that cc# <64 and Slot A will be in focus. >64 and Slot B will be in focus."

Just what I needed. Now I've got a new midi track that takes care of this for me. I haven't found yet how to have both slots A and B focused, but I guess it won't take long

sorry to disappoint you so soon after "The Great Rescue of 2015," but it is not possible to have both slots in focus at once. Once while experimenting I did succeed in controlling parameters on both slots at once (almost) from an external foot controller by programming in the following commands:

cc#68, value=0 to select slot A
cc#77, value=x to set delay rate on slot A
cc#68, valu=127 to select slot B
cc#77, value=y to set delay rate on slot B

When it didn't work at first, I figured that the delay rate adjustment commands were following too closely on the heels of the slot focus commands, so I inserted a few "dummy" midi commands (on unused channels) to slow things down just a bit and it seemed to work fine while testing. Then of course when I tried to replicate the experimental results in a gigging situation it didn't work right away, so I abandoned the whole thing. But perhaps someone with more time/persistence/will power will again succeed. I just didn't really want it badly enough to continue to pursue it.

Bless,

Pablo