Hey guys ! long time Vochleas owner since lockdown ! Lately been trying to get any audio source to trigger midi.
Knocked around with Dubler2 but it’s really optimized for mic input, whereas I’m trying to just use any audio source whether a loop , one shot etc.
Is it possible to build out this kind of function in Dubler2? It’ll really extend Dublers uses to be a full featured midi trigger.
I tried with different routing, aggregate devices on mac and ableton and its really clumsy and not that accurate, but getting the drums to trigger chords was kind of fun but still abit lagged even after changing buffer size.
Having a routing option that it simply reads audio input and converts to midi triggers or even assigns pitches so it send to common drum slots would be killer.
There’s a pretty big gap for something like this as far I know the only thing is CV ins and outs in Ableton or Reaktor and that can get pretty fiddly quickly.
Cheers!
This might not be a quick and cheap solution, but an audio interface with “loopback” feature could help. With an RME interface, I am able in the TotalMix FX software to, for example, route an audio track OUT of my DAW on one of the hardware outputs I do not actually have connected physically to a destination.
Loopback functionality lets the user then send that output “back” to the “physical input” which could be the audio channel that Dubler is listening for.
THEN, you would have to train triggers, or set the profile up based on that audio source, which is »convoluted perhaps! It could be lots of fun.
I have not tried with non-vocal loops or audio samples, but it would work with the routing. I have thought about doing so. Essentially, a dedicated Loopback function replaces the more clumsy aggregate device approach.
Thank for weighing in! Yeh I have a UAD interface and in theory can do loopback with virtual channels, (looking at a quick google search lol haven’t tried it yet).
I’ve also been digging around in things like Reaktor, Falcon and Halion for some audio trigger to some note on midi triggering.
But besides vocoding there really isn’t that much for this kind of thing, which is why I think Vochlea is the perfect company to iterate on this.
But in the meantime I guess we just hack away will take a look at Loopback !