I have followed the instructions pretty carefully and am still having issues with the live sequencing part.

Basically when I play notes on my triggerfinger, it triggers the video and I see the notes playing in live. Overdub works and I see the notes being laid over each other so it looks like its working fine but then when the playback head in live loops back to the beginning and encounters notes it does not trigger the video in VDMX.

So Live and VDMX are reciving the same midi notes but live is not controlling the VDMX video once notes are recorded.

Any suggestions? Seems like a great technique and I would love to get it working.

You mention wanting to find a way to automatically delete a bad performance….

I haven’t tried what I describe below with video but I use it for automatically resampling/chopping and mapping audio to the monome grids.

If you haven’t already you should check out using the monogrid code which will enable 8 layers of 8x 7 buttons on your monome. So your top layer could remain pretty much as you have it, your currently unused row being the one that switches between grids.

With a combination of iac busses and midistroke the following becomes possible:

Rather than having empty midi clips which you overdub into you can create a “midi clip creator clip” on another midi track…and later a “select midi clip(s) and delete it(them) clip” Map some midi notes from say your second grid on the monome(that are NOT used for triggering video clips) to the slots you want to record your midi(i.e those notes that ARE triggering video clips) into. Now on your midi clip creator track create a clip that outputs to your midi track 1. Program a sequence of the notes mapped to slots in midi track 1 one note every two bars, or however long you want those recorded midi clips to be. Set Global quantise to two bars. Map this clip to another button on the 40h. When you fire off this clip it will automatically create midi clips, one below the other, in midi track 1. If you jam on the notes that you have mapped to video clips at the same time, you will simultaneously record them into the new clips as they are being created by the “midi clip creator clip”.
Now you can set up a clip delete clip. Map a note in midistroke to the LEFT arrow command. Another to SHIFT UP arrow. And finally one to the delete key. Let’s say that this select and delete clip is going to live in slot 4 of track 3. So to select and delete the clip in Midi track 1 you want the cursor to move 2 Tracks to the left (LEFT arrow x2) and then select the 3 clips above(SHIFT UP x 3) and finally delete them. Program the corresponding notes into your clip – I find that sixteenths work ok but if Live doesn’t respond quick enough try eighths. When I am doing this with audio clips I usually allow one bar to complete the deletion process. Once deleted you can trigger your “midi clip creator clip” again and record some new stuff. You have to be VERY careful that your select and delete clip is actually selected in Live(i.e the cell is green) before firing it off. Otherwise your Live set will start eating itself…..

I realise that by going this route you might lose the midi feedback you’re getting via your max patch….can you run chuck at the same time??

But then think of all the clips you can map to the monome if you have 8 Grids of 56 buttons…

I hope this makes sense…if you want any more info you can usually find me at http://www.abletonlivedj.com

On the PC end, you should check out VJamm – great AV performance tool.

As for PC-focused tutorials, I rarely use the windows partition on my Mac and don’t have a whole lot to teach on that end. So you’ll have to convince one of the Windows-based VJs to write up some articles for us!

There will be more articles in the coming days focusing on platform-agnostic hardware like video mixers and screens and whatnot.

I really can’t wait to try that out, keep up with the good tutorials!

but I really think you should have some PC based stuffs too, or just some universal stuffs that applies to both world.