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09/24/08 + taint

wondering if there is any way to take the volume envelope of one waveform and apply it to another, like taking a waveform of a drum loop and applying it to a a volume envelope of another sound, or to a send

another thing that woudl be awesome is if there was a way to take a waveform of one sound and apply it to trigger samples, is there any way of doing this in ableton or other programs/plugins?

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09/24/08 + mlbot

Yes!

Side-chain compression is easiest way.
see link for several how-tos in Live

Vocoders with few side-bands.

there are amplittude-to-control data plugins, like in Pluggo.

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edited: Sep 24 2008 + bodo

if you want do the inverse, you could try setting up a gate with side chain too
this one pretty good at doing just that
link
(works with a MIDI input as well)

to trigger samples from a waveform use this:
link
a very flexible beast which lets you setup MIDI note numbers, very handy

i'm sure there's a lot more out there, and it seems that modular hosts (max, bidule) are great at rolling your own, as is pluggo

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10/15/08 + svivens

Yeah Smartelectronix!
thanks for the link,i'm going to try this;then if the weather if good ;-)
i'll try to build my own one,like Smartelectronix,or ask to Senso.
The envelop follower of Usine rocks!
and we can convert audio to MIDI too...

10/15/08 + taint

damn i think the koen trigger is exactly what i need but PPC ONLY!!!

10/15/08 + zifcak

mlbot said: "Yes!

Side-chain compression is easiest way.

"

this actually does the inverse: compress the input when the side-chain input exceeds a certain threshold. a noise gate with side-chain would get you closer. or an envelope follower controlling volume.

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