Midi Script to Drive Track Volume...

Hey thanks for your response!

It's for writing/previewing vocal harmonies in my own voice with waves tune.

I've got waves tune as a midi controlled AU effect, and it is taking a sidechain from a bus my lead vox channel is sending to, then tuning the sidechain audio to the note present in the midi track. I want to only hear what is coming through that relationship when a midi note is actively controlling the output. Currently, when no midi note is present, the track just doubles my lead vocals. (Only the lead vocal's channel strip, the bus is muted and otherwise only audible through these midi tracks; if I mute the midi tracks or turn their mixer volume all the way down, the vocals are not doubled anymore).

So in this case, volume automation will affect the output, but the midi volume controller will not.

But yeah, there are enough gaps that its a huge task, and it would also be great if I could just play a note on a keyboard and audition a harmony in my own voice without the track being doubled or tripled when I'm not playing a key. The idea is super low impact composing/rapid-prototyping using my own voice before I commit session time to recording the harmonies.

One solution I was looking at was just duplicating the lead vocal track for every harmony track and just removing the audio where I don't want to send it to waves, but again the gaps are numerous and it gets really annoying if I re-record the lead to change a lyric or something.

Thanks again for your help!

This could be an awesome solution, but it would require that a second software track whose sole purpose is to trigger that noise gate accept midi from the first track. I can't seem to figure out the routing on that, but if I could do it, that would work perfectly. Any tips on getting a software instrument on one track to accept midi from another track?

Both solutions sound perfect!

yes I would love instructions on linking sustain pedal to mute.

if I'm not mistaken, this could also mean it is possible to write an if/then statement where if a note is not present, the mute button is on?

thanks so much, everyone, for your help!

Hey Everyone! Thanks again for your time and attention! Part of the problem is I'm transition from a heavy history in ableton for a few features I absolutely love, and now this part of my workflow has just exploded.

Eriksimon- Got a chance to test the pedal thing. Do you know if it is possible to automate this? The solution works perfectly if I'm using the physical sustain pedal, but I can't get automation of midi information for either sustain pedal or foot control to affect the mute button, it only works if I'm using the physical control surface... so I can't use presence/non-presence of a note to drive a script to make this automatic.

Ed- Is there a way to do this without copying the midi sequence? I would like to be able to have the entire process triggered by either live midi input or notes off a midi clip, such that I don't need to alter two midi clips if I change the timing of a single note. Is there a way to basically make a bus for midi information that I'm missing? That would make this solution perfect. Been trying to find this solution everywhere, but I could just be missing some basic vernacular in the switch from ableton...

Again, thanks for your attention to this!

Thanks for the reply!

That def works for the live input.

But is there a way to make it such that a midi clip on your waves tune track will trigger the exs24 on your synth for SC track without duplicating? So whatever is playing on one is also playing on the other, without having to edit the midi track twice?

For this, and for other applications, I basically want a midi bus. Such that one midi clip on one track can trigger several other tracks at once, without the restrictions of multi-timbral instruments. Does this exist in logic?

Thanks everyone!

Thanks so much for your patience Ed!

The brain **** that kept me from understanding this solution was my assumption that I would leave the midi clip on the tuning track for some reason, when I should have been placing it on the main track for the summing stack. Now I feel very silly. Perfect solution, Ed.

Thanks so much to you both! You guys really helped me set up my dream composition platform. Happy tracking to you!