https://github.com/adamjmurray/ableton-midi-sculptor
Ableton MIDI Sculptor: Tools for MIDI editing in Ableton Live
https://github.com/adamjmurray/ableton-midi-sculptor
ableton ableton-live maxforlive maxmsp midi midi-device
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Ableton MIDI Sculptor: Tools for MIDI editing in Ableton Live
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/adamjmurray/ableton-midi-sculptor
- Owner: adamjmurray
- License: other
- Created: 2017-10-14T01:28:03.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-03-04T12:48:18.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-27T14:44:46.352Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: ableton, ableton-live, maxforlive, maxmsp, midi, midi-device
- Language: Max
- Homepage:
- Size: 5.82 MB
- Stars: 115
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# MIDI Sculptor for Ableton Live
The **MIDI Sculptor**
is a [Max for Live device](http://ableton.com/maxforlive)
for [Ableton Live](http://ableton.com/live/)
that makes it easy to create variations of MIDI clips with tools to modify pitch, velocity, and timing.
## Installation and Usage
1. [Download Sculptor.amxd v2.0 beta 2](./releases/2.0-beta-2/Sculptor.amxd?raw=true) for Live 11
* Or [Download Sculptor.amxd v1.1](./releases/1.1/Sculptor.amxd?raw=true) for Live 10
2. Drag the `Sculptor.amxd` device onto any MIDI track
3. Click the "Sculpting Tools" button to open the main UI in a window
4. Adjust the zoom level as desired
5. Open Live's Info View and hover over any control for documentation
## Features
Some of the things you can do with this device:
* Randomize the timing and velocity of notes within a controllable range.
* Strum chords by making simultaneous notes play in quick succession.
* Compress velocity ranges to tame wild recordings with notes that are too quiet or too loud, or spread the velocities farther apart for more dynamic range.
* Reverse all the pitches without changing timing or velocity.
* Randomly swap notes in a drum rack clip for sonic variations with the same timing as the original.
* Randomly delete notes to "thin out" a clip to create lower energy variations.
* Randomize in all sorts of ways to experiment and overcome writer's block.
### Device Panel
* The "Sculpting Tools" button opens the main UI in a **floating window** (always on top of Live), so you can jump between different clips and keep editing.
* The UI is **zoomable** for high resolution monitors.
* Sculpting operations apply to the **selected notes** of the clip, so you can control what's affected.
* _Note: If nothing is happening, it's probably because you only have one note selected._
### There are **3 sculpting tools**.
### Slide Tool
* Operate on the **pitch**, **velocity**, **start time**, or **duration** of the selected notes.
* Set a **maximum range** of the operation.
* **Shift** moves the chosen note property in the positive or negative direction
* **Randomize** moves the chosen note property in a random direction by a random amount (within the chosen range)
* Every time you use the randomize X-Y pad, a new random value is chosen for each corner. You can "scrub" around looking for sweet spots. Once you let go of the mouse, new random values will be chosen.
* **Spread** spreads the chosen note properties closer together or farther apart.
* **Edge behavior** (the 4 buttons in the lower left) determines what happens when a note hits the minimum or maximum value:
* **Clamp** holds the note property at its minimum/maximum value
* **Reflect** "bounces" off the edge and moves in the opposite direction
* **Wrap** wraps around from the minimum to maximum value and vice versa
* The "**keep going**" option lets notes move off the edge of the clip and removes notes with negative velocities or invalid pitches
* **Spread anchor behavior** (the 3 buttons in the lower right) controls the spread operation:
* **Lowest**: don't move the note with the lowest value
* **Middle**: don't move the note with the average value. In other words, spread away from / towards the center.
* **Highest**: don't move the note with the highest value
#### New in version 1.1
A **Strum** option in the Slide Tool moves notes based on their relative pitch.
* Strum the **start or end time** of notes.
* **Lock** the **duration** or **end position**.
* **Anchor** to the **lowest** or **highest** note, or strum around the **middle**.
* Change the tension to **accelerate** or **decelerate** the strum.
### Swap Tool
* Operate on **a combination of pitch, velocity, and duration**. Start times do not change.
* **Rotate** copies the chosen note properties from one note to the next while keeping the start times the same. The rotation wraps around the end of the clip.
* **Randomly swap** the chosen note properties while keeping the start times the same
* Every time you use the randomize X-Y pad, new random swap targets are chosen for each corner. You can "scrub" around looking for sweet spots. Once you let go of the mouse, new random targets will be chosen.
* Swap the chosen note properties between **consecutive pairs** of notes.
* **Reverse** the chosen note properties across the notes (e.g. the last note gets the first note's pitch and vice versa)
* **"Zip"** the chosen note properties by splitting the list of notes into two halves and interleaving the halves.
### Set Tool
* Randomly **delete, mute, or unmute notes** for "thinning out" a busy clip
* Set the chosen **pitch**, **velocity**, **start time**, or **duration** on a **random set of notes**
* Set the chosen note property to the chosen value value on **all the selected notes**
## Feature Requests and Bug Reports
Please file a github issue: https://github.com/adamjmurray/ableton-midi-sculptor/issues
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## About
Designed and developed by [Adam Murray](https://github.com/adamjmurray).
Released under the [GNU General Public License v3.0](https://github.com/adamjmurray/ableton-midi-sculptor/blob/master/LICENSE.txt). This device is free to use and does not impose royalties on music created with it. You may not sell this device as part of a closed source commercial product. If you use this device or a modified form of this device in another software project, the project must be open source and include this license.
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