I am trying to incorporate Playbeat 4 into a typical Ableton workflow for me. The workflow starts with finding an interesting pattern and then if a song idea starts developing, quickly creating some variations which may lend themselves to verses, chorus’s, intro’s and outro’s. These variations would live in ableton session clips on a given track. The goal is to play these patterns with the playbeat sounds and not some other external midi device.
Does PLaybeat even respond to incoming midi events?
I began by finding a nice starting pattern in Playbeat GUI and as soon as I wanted to create the first variation, I got stuck.
- I saved the pattern to a key on remix keyboard. How do I name it so i can remember what its intent was?
- How do I then use this pattern in ableton. Of course the pattern plays when the transport in ableton starts, but how do I create a clip with this unique pattern? Do I just have the clip play the midi note associated with the remix key?
- If I create a variation and store it on another key, how do I reference this variation on another clip of the same track in ableton? Just insert the midi note for the new remix key?
- It does not look like the 24 remix keys store the sounds on a given pattern, so how can I change snare sound for a verse pattern and still have chorus snare sound/pattern available via remix keys?
- Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mitch
