If you have not yet installed MiniAudicle (Chuck) and successfully gotten your 40h and live 6 talking via MonoGrid.ck you need to follow this entry first: http://wiki.monome.org/view/ChuckMonoablemeAndLive6SetupOsX
Ok, now for the advanced funtime. For this example I took a very basic 1 bar drum loop and made 4 slices, but you can use it for anything (beats, vocals, melodies) and make as many slices as you want.
Take your 1 bar drumloop and place it on a track in session view in ableton live 6.
Some prepwork that saves you time later (do it now once, or do it for each slice you make later)
Set the clip Quantization to 1/16. (see screenshot below)
Go ahead and setup the follow action to: 0 1 0 and next clip for the action. (see screenshot below)
Duplicate (cmd+d) that clip 3 times so you have 4 of the clip (see top left of screenshot)
Wwe have move the start marker in each clip to the appropriate places. If you are following my example and using a 1 bar loop, you can simply set them like the screenshot. I color coded the clips, and waveform views so it should be pretty obvious.
Now all you do is map the clips to the 40h via midi map. At the top left of the screenshot you can see which buttons are mapped to which clips (also color coded).
At this point if you fire off the first clip it should automagically play through each of the 4 “slices” we made via the follow actions and start marker positions. at any point you can launch another slice by hitting its button.
You can see how all of this works in ahlstrominfo’s youtube clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZXwSt7Njc
Once again, super huge thanks to ahlstrominfo for creating the MonoGrid.ck patch it really takes live + monome to the next level.
ps. if you want more slices, simply adjust the follow actions and make more duplicates. the start markers will be in different positions as well. should be easy to work any multiples of 4 though.
