Alpha Juno in Ableton

[pottolom]

Hi. Could anyone help me to get CTRLR working properly with my Alpha Juno 1 in Ableton? I am using the Win32 version running in Windows 7.

I have managed to get it playing notes (I can hear the sounds coming from the Juno and also see the keys playing in the CTRLR VST interface). What I can’t seem to do, however, is to get the controllers (e.g. filter cutoff, etc) to have any effect at all.

On the synth, MIDI EXCL is set to ON, MIDI Omni to OFF and MIDI CH to 1.

In Ableton I have disabled all MIDI outs and ins.

I have loaded a new instance of the CTRLR Alpha Juno 2 VST Win32 and in Preferences have selected my USB/MIDI interface as the output and input devices. I have also selected MIDI Thru here – nothing seems to happen at all without this.

As stated above, I can get notes to play, but can’t seem to tweak or edit sounds from the VSTI.

Any help much appreciated.

[pottolom]

PS, assuming what I am describing above is feasible, will it also be possible to automate or record changes, e.g. to filter cutoff, within a sequence in Ableton?

[atom]

well that’s the whole point of Ctrlr, you can record any parameter like any other plugin you load in Ableton. so yes

[pottolom]

Thanks Atom – that’s good news ” title=”Smile” />

Do you know how I could get my Alpha Juno to respond to the controller changes in Ableton as described above?

Cheers!

[pottolom]

I downloaded this again, reinstalled and it’s now working perfectly ” title=”Smile” />

Must have set it up wrongly in the first place. It’s an excellent little program, by the way.

[sorgenkind]

hi guys

i’m on ableton live 8 on a win xp sp3 pc.
I installed the plugin to control my mks-50 but i can’t hae ableton to send out the MIDI.
as soon as I load the plugin, ableton sees it as a softsynth and doesn’t let me output midi on that track. Of course the plugin is set to work with an interface which is not used by ableton, so that should not be the problem. Luckily my studio mate has a midi merger so now I have found a workaround, i set two tracks in ableton, one with the plugin, which lets me succesfully control the parameters of the synth a change patches/banks, and one midi channel to send the notes to the mks-50. the two channels use two different interfaces, whose outputs go in the dual input of the midi merge, then into the mks-50. This way i can use the plugin, but I wonder how other people can use the editor plugin with ableton.
Another issue is that when I send snapshots to the mks-50, it stops responding to notes/controllers, and i can’t save the sounds, all I can save are .xml files, which anyway disappear from the folder where they should be….
anyway I’m happy to be able to at least control my mks-50 within ableton, i don’t really mind the workaround of two miditracks and a merger but I wonder how to save sounds on the computer.

thanks and keep up the good work!

[nezzyidy]

I am also curious how you got your Juno to work in Ableton. What settings do I need to have in the general preferences tab of CTRLR?

Also, is it necessary to disable all Midi inputs and outputs in Live?

thanks.

[vestax444]

Hi
Does anyone have a link to CTRLR Alpha Juno 2 VST Win32 ?
much appreciated
V

[Binman_UK]

Evening all,

Can someone tell me step-by-step how to get ctrlr + juno 2 working with ableton?
I think I’m losing my mind here… I’ve been trying for hours.

My Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 (firewire) transmits midi data fine to all of my devices. I use Ableton as the master midi clock so the Focusrite Saffire output (track and sync) is enabled in the Ableton preferences.
Obviously because Ableton is using and has locked my sound card, every time I choose the Focusrite Saffire in the ctrlr options it gives an error saying it’s already in use. I understand that this is a limitation becasue my driver isn’t multi-client.

I tried installing MIDI YOKE and MIDI OX and configuring as per the following procedure… it says that it’s a workaround if you have a non-multi client driver:

[url:2fygejtf]http://ctrlr.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=475&start=0[/url:2fygejtf]

But when I try to set the MIDI-OX output to my Focusrite Saffire I get an "undefined external error" relating to the Saffire.
Any help is much appreciated here as this is doing my nut in!

Cheers,
Binny.

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