The only traditional white/black keys left in my house are on my Prophet Rev2 - and the Yamaha upright piano in my living room. I actually ditched all of my keyboard controllers because of this. Then choose the key pattern - 3rds, 4ths, or octave of notes in the scale per row of pads. The other amazing thing about Push2 is the scales setup for the keyboard. My #1 dream for USTA and Tetê - use CV to change the 'next pattern' after the end of the current pattern loop. Much easier to do more humanized melodies, long runs - an my biggest complaint about eurorack sequencers - you can actually move between patterns with ease. I've also been experimenting with step-sequenced or loopy 4-note chords on Tetê - which is really awesome. Tetê is awesome for the euclidean generators - which I do not use for beats, but more for rhythmically timed melodies or basslines. I would say it is my primary compositional sequencer. I also make a lot of use of different stage lengths. So with my sequencing options - I use USTA for 16-note sequences that have a definite loop or repetitive nature - even if there is some probability as part of that. I also bring a RUN gate from ableton - not a Reset, so when I press play/stop on Push2 - everything in my modular starts and stops in time.

USTA and Tetê are pretty good at doing that themselves. µMIDI is rock solid for transferring my Ableton clock, which is the root of all timing in my studio, over to modular - where I use Pamela if I need to subdivide it. I was formerly using an Expert Sleepers FH-2 (also awesome), and an old µMIDI - which I don't like because the pitch is only unipolar. I just ordered the new Intellijel µMIDI - which will also get the expanders when they are released shortly. The way I have things connected using Ableton/Push2, my Frap USTA, or Intellijel Tetê+Tetrapad are all interchangeable and effortless on the modular. I use Push2 for a few things: Beats, more complex melodies, and chords. I'm definitely hearing a siren call of this controller.Ĭould you elaborate on your workflow? Do you ever sequences stuff from Push in your modular? Studio One is setup like having a digital recorder slapped on the monitor mix.īeen searching around the forum to find how people are using Push 2 and found you've been using it successfully. Much easier than trying to record the live output of Live within Live (what a mouthful - haha!). The other weird thing I started doing this year - is using Ableton strictly like a live composition/mixing tool, taking the output of it internally through my UA Apollo 8 loopback and passing that as a single stereo input to Presonus Studio One to record everything live. I like the hardware feel of having the outboard FX, and it allows me to dedicate all of my DAW CPU to production tools like compressors and EQ, overall mix and mastering VSTs, beat making, and some CV Tools/MIDI-CV stuff for sequences composed in the DAW and not on USTA. The two Eventides are clocked and modulated in Ableton. I've now boiled it down to having no 'traditional' effects modules - just arbhar and Lúbadh for the experimental stuff and rarely using VST effects on the modular - in favour of using an Eventide TimeFactor, H9 and a Lexicon MPX550 - either patched into a voice, or using aux send loops on Frap CGM. And I also had modules like Mimeophon and Magneto to try staying 'in the case'. I went through various experiments using VSTs on the modular - tracking lots of inputs into the DAW, using loads of VST effects. Even though I have a Presonus Faderport 16 for mixing, I prefer mixing the modular voices in the modular and feeding Ableton with a single stereo mix. Like an evolution of my MPC60 from 20 years ago. I prefer locking everything to Ableton's clock and using Push 2 for beats - it just seems so much more productive.

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