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ableton Live – How to crossfade between 4 loops in realtime ?

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

This question stared after having recorded 4 audio clips from my modular synth in 4 separate audio tracks. I’m wondering how to crossfade between 4 tracks in realtime using the joystick of my FaderFox micromodul LV2 ? A kind of vector mixing between these 4 tracks ?

What I’ve tried first was to make some group tracks:
- Group Track 1 = Track A + Track C
- Group Track 2 = Track B + Track D.

Then I assigned the X MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick to control the level of track A and in opposite the level of track C. I did the same for Track B and D with the Y MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick. But that’s not a true vector crossfader.

I think that the X MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick should also control the level of the Group Track 2 and the same with the Y MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick for the level of the Group Track 1. But then the MIDI controllers values must be mapped to have a special curve …

Instead of thinking about axis (X and Y) where each of the four audio sources is along these axis (axis X : source A & source C – axis Y : source B & source D), the idea was to think about a square where each corner is an audio source. Here is what I’ve done …

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