> Do you mind sending me an email (in profile) if I have a few questions?
Why don't you ask here so we can all benefit (maybe) from the answers? :) Besides, might be more people who can answer too, and no added pressure on parent!
Sure, I can describe some of the basics I'm trying to do.
My goal is to autogenerate "projects" with loops and one hits, so I have like 100 candidate "songs" or "kits" to work with just using hardware and avoiding a DAW. And then to quickly jam on each song/kit to create an arrangement in hardware that I can save. Ending up with 20 scratch arrangements that I can load into a DAW and then produce / etc more carefully.
I want to load a "kit" into the MIDI controller and trigger sounds by hitting buttons. That part seems clear to me with JACK. That I can basically drop straight into hardware and start working with my audio material.
Now where I feel stuck is I'd like my knobs to do basic filtering, I'd like the loops to loop when I trigger them, and I'd like to be able to save my jammed arrangement to load into a DAW later.
Saving it seems like I could just save MIDI.
For filters, I am not sure which library I would use, and here is where it seems like I should be controlling a real DAW (so I get the same filter during my jam as in postproduction).
For triggering a loop that goes and loops, I have to write that by hand?
Apologies if what it sounds like what I want is: "I can use software to create 100 candidate Ableton projects with the clips pre-mapped and do a looped arrangement very quickly."
Specifically in terms of scripts that sit between the hardware and Reaper?
Honestly it's very scripty stuff that's mostly one-time use. Stuff like sending the notes I play to a different midi channel depending on their velocity, or sending specific notes to a particular synth while all the others go to another.
It's kind of like "what sort of shell scripting du you do?" you know? It's just whatever I need to do given the situation.
One particular bit of fun I had was "flipping the polarity" of my keyboard, so that the left hand was playing high notes and the right hand the low notes. I got my Joe Zawinul on Black Market vibe going!
I can email you in a while but feel free to ask anything here also.
What sort of scripting are you doing?
Do you mind sending me an email (in profile) if I have a few questions?