Week 9: Chain Selector

This week, I worked on Chain Selection in Ableton. I didn’t spend too much time on it, what with a lot of projects and other life stuff going on, but fortunately, it’s not all that complicated.

What this can let you do is create different instruments / synths as one instrument, with a separate MIDI controller/commands to switch between these.

Where this could be really helpful with data-parsing is that I can start to have more dynamic compositions with different synths.

The downside is that I can’t actually switch through the instruments themselves, so still have the same EQ, compression, echo effects, etc.

So, if the instruments are similar, then it is no problem.

I think there is also a way to do this with a drum kit, but I didn’t get that far.

Here is the GitHub Repo is link to my weekly explorations.