External software midi pattern/arpeggiator/generator

[Skywalker]

Anyone know of an app that can transform incoming midi data from a keyboard prior to entering logic. I have been able to do this using ableton's midi fx on a separate pc using midi thru with the folowing setup: Keyboard-PC/Ableton-Logic. However I would like to do this from within the mac.

Any ideas

 

PPC g5 quad

Logic 7.2.3

Live 5

Firepod

evolution mk 461c

[zebastian21]

Anyone know of an app that can transform incoming midi data from a keyboard prior to entering logic. I have been able to do this using ableton's midi fx on a separate pc using midi thru with the folowing setup: Keyboard-PC/Ableton-Logic. However I would like to do this from within the mac.

Any ideas

 

PPC g5 quad

Logic 7.2.3

Live 5

Firepod

evolution mk 461c

 

there is the arp in logic which you have to add in the environment window, but its pretty basic and not very creative. I wish there was a plug in arp like the one in ableton, or even better the one in Reason 4.

[fader8]

Anyone know of an app that can transform incoming midi data from a keyboard prior to entering logic.

 

That's what the Environment does. There are hundreds of various MIDI processors, arpeggiators, etc that have been made over the years for Logic's environment. You may want to start by looking at www.swiftkick.com and downloading the Environment Toolkit which comes with lots of useful stuff.

 

Anything you cable between the Physical Input object and the Sequencer object in the environment is essentially "before" it hits Logic.

[Skywalker]

How about a way to use ableton as a midi thru device that way harnessing the midi effects of ableton in logic?

[Fred B]

Like this: keyboard --> ableton --> IAC bus 1 --> logic

 

Or this: keyboard --> logic --> IAC bus 1 --> ableton --> IAC bus 2 --> logic

 

Just be careful about MIDI feedback loops.

 

General rule: If sending MIDI from Logic to IAC bus #n, you need to prevent that Logic receives from IAC bus #n, by cabling in the environment the corresponding input port to a monitor as "dead end".

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