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Why I have hi cpu usage with this amazing tool? (Performer)

Why VARIATIONS doesn't let me MIDI map the different variation trigger?? It seems like a super super basic thing to do.

Can you use arm / disarm and record on the same track? I’ve tried to do this and it’s not working.

I really love this pack, and am super grateful that you made it. Unfortunately the Prearranger doesn't work for me. When I make a record clip it only arms the track and won't actually record a clip. If anyone can offer any help why I'd be really grateful as I really really want to use this pack!

I’ve been having a ton of fun with this plug-in… Until it stopped working! :( I hit an error after performing the following steps: 1. Launched Prearranger 2. Created a MIDI track named “Guitar” and an Audio track name “Guitar” 3. Created a 4 bar MIDI clip named “record Guitar” 4. Created another 4 bar MIDI clip named “Guitar” pasted after the previous clip 5. Pressed play from before the clips and performed my guitar part… The first few times, the playback worked successfully. Then, I tried again to keep rehearsing the performance and eventually the playback of the recorded loop failed and I only heard the first few beats of the loop until it just stopped. This happens intermittently and only seems to be an issue with Audio Instruments, not MIDI instruments. Note: I also tried re-creating the tracks multiple times (both manually and via the Prearranger plug-in itself) and the issue kept coming back up. Any one face any similar issues and know of a solution for this?

hi @Iftah I have a question: when I select Note Mode in Macro Editor, it allows len 255 (almost 1 beat or 25% of bar). Any plans to allow longer values? This can be handy with oddball. I'm sure in some other MIDI controllers. Another question, why only one channel in MIDI output per Performer device? Can't be all channels option? I don't know all the implications of this, but having any armed channel would look convenient. Thanks.

Is it possible to use this with ableton intro if I have max for live ?

Please integrate a morphing option between variation states. Thank you.

brilliant. additions to include: per zith pitch bend, and additional muffling / gating hammer.

One thing though. You are looking at Aphex twin only. He happens to excel at ambient so his talent also is a reason his ambient tracks are more popular. If you to look at NIN for example I’m sure that the ambient tracks would be less popular.

Wow, amazing work, thank you for sharing. Seems to me like the sample size for Aphex Twin is a bit low. Not much of his work is there on spotify. Plus the music itself is somewhat weird, might be stretching the “edge cases” for the algorithms used by the team. This work you have done with pianos and max smp, sounds like a dream job! Would be amazing to see a video on the techniques and discoveries. Keep it up 👍🏻

Great video . I had tried once to use spotifies features to get most similar songs based on cosine similarity . Just wondering if you had looked in this direction ??

Just saw your video off from Reddit and now I'm here. I'm also learning data analysis. Keep up the good work!!!

Keep uploading! I am data analyst and music producer too :)

For anyone interested, I've noticed that there are cases where Spotify only provides the release year, which leads to an error when converting 'Release Date' to datetime and extracting the year. With the help of ChatGPT, I came up with a simple workaround: # Convert 'Release Date' to datetime, handling both full dates and years def convert_release_date(date): try: # Try to parse with the full date format return pd.to_datetime(date, format='%Y-%m-%d') except ValueError: try: # If the first parsing fails, try to parse it as just a year return pd.to_datetime(date, format='%Y') except ValueError: # If both fail, return NaT (Not a Time) return pd.NaT df['Release Date'] = df['Release Date'].apply(convert_release_date) # Extract year df['Release Year'] = df['Release Date'].dt.year Huge thanks, Iftah!

It's been quite interesting to see Aphex receive a lot more popularity in my generation (z) via social media and seeing what tracks take hold in trends versus what tracks the general masses find weird or too obscure. Great watch, keep up the good work!

Very interesting. As a data scientist I appreciate the effort to get the data, process it, try to make sense of it and make some inferences... What might be a good exercise is to create a playlist of bangers and ambient tracks (outside of Aphex Twin's catalogue) and then test whether your hypotheses still hold. Also if you seed it with proper bangers from 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s to you would see the effect of time / loudness. Also maybe seed with some counterfactuals - tracks that have repetitive patterns but are "ambient" e.g. Steve Reich's "Music for 18 musicians" or "Electric Counterpoint"; and bangers with low valence or irregular beats (Bjork?). That might throw up some new insights from the relationships built on Aphex Twin, whose catalogue is quite mixed / esoteric. Nice work though!

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Man, the dream would be to be able to map it from the push. And a 2nd level inception dream is to be able to edit the curves in performer on the push. The push 3 development and max for live integration seems to be so sluggish, no?

To me the weakest point is not having the possibility to midi map the variations recall.

Live looping hands free feature only for arrangement? No session view? :(

Can someone (ANYONE!) please tell my why I can not map this (performer) to an external controller!? It will map ANYTHING in Ableton on its own. As soon as I have performer pack up and try to midi Map, it doesn't work. I got one to work, and I thought I had figured it out....but nope. I'm just sitting here turning knobs for days and it's as if the controller isn't plugged in. (it is...). Is this a known issue or am I going about this all wrong? I feel like it's not rocket science. If anyone can chime in, I'd be very grateful.

This is great! but I can´t make work variations o P3 standalone, there is a way to make new variations and rename it without the pc? thanks!

Not sure if you saw my reply to your comment but the performer device can’t be mapped to the ableton crossfader. Is this a technical limitation?

Is it possible to map the internal Macro's to Ableton's standard Macro racks?

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This is incredible, came from your reddit post ^^

You, kind sir, are a LEGEND. a true legend.

Hi iftah! You did an incredible job, but I still encounter two issues with Variation: 1. The Stash and Recall buttons have a latency that makes Variation unusable as soon as I select 'Devices.' 2. Variation does not remember that I have enabled clips. Each time I start my set, I have to go back into Variation to re-enable clips. Unfortunately, I won't be able to do this on the Push 3 standalone.

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Got any for Live Lite?

Great ideas. Is it possible to map variations to an external controller ? I can only map Stash and Recall, but it could be handy to recall more variations.

Bro is staring into my soul 😰

i got some of your material in the library....

Hi Iftah. The variations tool still isn’t working properly for me. Sent multiple messages to Ableton and on the forums and still haven’t heard back. The stash/recall resets certain things half a bar after other things and makes it almost useless. Any chance this’ll be fixed soon? For example I’ll stash when I have everything grooving. Then I’ll cut out the kick and open filter and add reverb for a breakdown. When I hit recall the filter on the south will go back to the stashed state, but the kick only comes back in 1/2 a bar to a bar later. Thanks so much. Sorry to bug you here but I don’t know where else to go. This was the feature I was most excited about in Ableton 12

I didn't quite realize what the prearranger was until the demo video. That's something I've always wanted and now it's real. Can't wait to use it. Thanks for creating it.

amazing pack that i am so excited to explore! im curious how to activate the "performance mode" you talk about at 12:49 on the push 3 to give global control to all of your tracks? can't seem to figure that part out...

Proper Game Changing devices!! Thanks for all your hard work developing them @iftah_fow❤

on Variations, I can't midi map the "New" button, is that on purpose? thanks again for this amazing tool

The performance pack is great. I really wish that knob positions in performer could be recalled with variations though. As it is now I kinda have to choose which of them I want to use in my set.

is there a way to go to next variation with a midi knob? (not clip/scene related) it works great for preset change on individual tracks

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my boy thanos really just snapped his fingers to bring us this :o

Hi For a reason I can't explain, curve editing doesn't seem to function on my version of Performer. I can use the curve presets but modification of the curves is impossible. I'm on a mac (12.7.4) with Ableton Live 12 Standard (12.0.2). I downloaded your pack (PerformancePackbyIftah_r59831_v1.1) on the ableton site I tried all key/click combination possible and couldn't edit the curves. I tried to save the set and re-open it and rebooted my computer. I tried with and without something mapped in the slot (all slots).I checked on a shaper device that curve editing was ok in the function object of Max and it is. Do you have an idea to solve this issue because curve editing seems really powerful and I can't use this features of your nonetheless very good device. Thanks

Hi May I ask why you choosed to ignore disabled chains in the process of saving racks in Variations ? It's part of the "state" of the rack in a given variation. I find it more visual (and simpler) than tweeking the chain selector which is more tedious and invisible most of the time in a rack. Of course many more things can be achieved with the chain selector but for simple "synth or fx swap" in a rack, the chain activator is enough. Anyway thanks for this excellent device.

I absolutely love this pack but am having some issues with prearranger - sometimes it works fine and other times it only records some of the clips, skipping other clips/record command. Do you have any suggestions for how to fix that kind of problem? I tried disabling all other plugins and controllers, and tried rebuilding my set from scratch, but it’s still happening

Killer devices you've made! Thanks a lot. I'd be really interested in your ways of optimizing your live set for small controllers. Any deeper look on what you explain at 19:32 would be very useful. Anyway, i'll keep digging the features of variations and perfomer of which I've only scratched the surface. Thanks again.

This absolutely amazing! One amazing feature would be a way to assign the switch between two variations to a CC so that the transition between two variations could be continuous instead of a hard switch toggle. Any plans to add such functionality?

Prearranger is wonderful, however, if you put a selection of records and "playbacks" in a loop, the record doesn't record over the previous pass every time - I'm only trying midi tracks for now as an experiment...Am I missing something, or is it not a good idea to loop the whole thing?

@lftah, I guess it's not possible to use prearranger with Push 3?