Device Details
Overview
| Name | Version: | Drum Buss Keytracker 1.2 |
| Author: | Dez |
| Device Type: | MIDI Effect |
| Description: | Device to be assigned to the "boom freq" of Drum Buss. Sorry for not freezing the device the first time, this is my very first m4l device, I hope it works now! :) Still working on improving the glide function btw. |
Details
| Live Version Used: | 10.0.1 |
| Max Version Used: | 8.0.0 |
| Date Added: | Apr 06 2018 08:33:20 |
| Date Last Updated: | Apr 06 2018 08:41:50 |
| Downloads: | 1611 |
| ⓘ License: | None |
Average Rating
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Files
| Device File: | Drum Buss Keytracker.amxd |
Comments
Thank you Dez! Really liked this one :) Du you think it would be possible to make something like this for the EQ Eight? That would be awesome, almost like Surfer EQ.
Posted on April 23 2018 by launi |
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Hey Dez! Can you help me modify this contraption to help the Frequency Shifter device track with MIDI notes? Somehow the math doesn't quite work and I don't understand how to fix it but it ALMOST works.
Posted on April 11 2020 by docids |
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This device is amazing.
Is there an easy way to change the way it maps so that it generates values 0-127 instead of frequency?
Cheers!
Is there an easy way to change the way it maps so that it generates values 0-127 instead of frequency?
Cheers!
Posted on September 17 2020 by mmmaaarrrtttiiinnn |
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Very cool... I have a track in a strange key and this little device really helped me create an 808 sound that reinforces the bass frequency while also being audible without a sub
Posted on March 10 2022 by nukage |
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Hey everyone! I just logged back in (after years). I'll look at the suggestions from your comments and make some more devices :)
Posted on March 16 2022 by Dez |
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I coralled Claude Code to adapt this to work with Unfiltered Audio's Bass-Mint.
The key insight is that Dez's device maps sig (0-1) to Drum Buss's pitch control. But it has to overcome Drum Buss using a logarithmic scale that makes the dial work in a 'perceptually frendly' manner. Paired with the entirely passive Note display I think this amounts to a questionable design choice from Ableton - mapping it to exact notes without Dez's device is fiddly at best.
As it happens Bass-Mint's controller maps from 30-249 hz in a linear fashion, so the answer was to replace "expr (log($f1/30)/log(1.1161))/10" in Dez's device, with "expr ($f1 - 30) / 219" (I wanted Bass-Mint pitched down an octave relative to the synth).
Thanks to Dez's clear design, I think users could ask CC (or perhaps another AI service) to help adapt this to many other devices. My tips - rather than upload the entire plug in (thousands of tokens, a lot for CC to potentially get lost in) I first conceptualised the problem, and when CC responded I identified that I had Dez's device, and simply passed the expr - however I also uploaded a screenshot of the Max editor layout, which appeared to help CC greatly.
Well done again Dez, and thanks.
The key insight is that Dez's device maps sig (0-1) to Drum Buss's pitch control. But it has to overcome Drum Buss using a logarithmic scale that makes the dial work in a 'perceptually frendly' manner. Paired with the entirely passive Note display I think this amounts to a questionable design choice from Ableton - mapping it to exact notes without Dez's device is fiddly at best.
As it happens Bass-Mint's controller maps from 30-249 hz in a linear fashion, so the answer was to replace "expr (log($f1/30)/log(1.1161))/10" in Dez's device, with "expr ($f1 - 30) / 219" (I wanted Bass-Mint pitched down an octave relative to the synth).
Thanks to Dez's clear design, I think users could ask CC (or perhaps another AI service) to help adapt this to many other devices. My tips - rather than upload the entire plug in (thousands of tokens, a lot for CC to potentially get lost in) I first conceptualised the problem, and when CC responded I identified that I had Dez's device, and simply passed the expr - however I also uploaded a screenshot of the Max editor layout, which appeared to help CC greatly.
Well done again Dez, and thanks.
Posted on March 03 2026 by IClaudiusCode |
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