I experience that if I map a LFO onto some ISF Shader Makros, sometimes the Modulation isn’t active anymore all of a sudden. It corresponds with no visual feedback of any Makro Parameter modulation. Then I’ll have to remap the LFO’s destination and it would work again for a while.
I need to observe further but like this a bunch of ISF Shaders become pretty much useless. What’s the purpose of “3D Rotate” if you can’t modulate X/Y/Z with a LFO?
Any similar observations? Any fixes?
Thank you!
Hey Philipp! The exact same issue has been reported to us in regards to Envelope Follower. Considering that Envelope Follower also seems to be able to cause Live to freeze at random moments as you described in this other thread, it is clear that both devices are bugged. They leverage the same mechanism to map to parameters, and our current suspicion is that the problem is that exact mechanism (the [live.remote~] and [live.modulate~] objects).
Related reports also indicate that the problems keep occuring without our Videosync or Beam running alongside Live, so it is a problem on Live’s side and therefor something only Ableton can fix. What they will need to do so is a reliable way to reproduce the bug. If you have a way to do so or can demonstrate it with a screen recording, please report this to Ableton directly.
When it comes to a direct way to modulate Videosync’s parameters: there currently isn’t any other than automation or clip modulation. This is something we are looking to improve.
I understand.
Just to clarify: Ableton didn’t freeze in this case here. Everything keeps working. Just the modulation isn’t happening anymore. I can remap the parameters without reloading the live-set and it will work again for some time. This occurs to me to be slightly different to the Envelope-Follower-Freeze- issue.
Follow up question: Is the pure existence of an Ableton LFO in the particular Live-Set an issue or is it only if the LFO is destined to a Videosync device? Again, I didn’t experience freezes or the likes in the LFO case. That just happened in the Envelope Follower case.
It would be real nice to have a Bitchboy Midi-Controller to control modulation frequency and depth by designated knobs. If Clip Automation is the only working kind of automation right now, there is now chance, I realize. I guess Videosync devices as well as ISF shaders needed inbuilt modulation sources with midi-mappable macros.
Is the pure existence of an Ableton LFO in the particular Live-Set an issue or is it only if the LFO is destined to a Videosync device?
As far as I understand the issue, it is not unique to mapping it to Videosync device parameters.
It would be real nice to have a Bitchboy Midi-Controller to control modulation frequency and depth by designated knobs.
As with any MIDI controller, you can freely map whatever parameters you like to it.
I guess Videosync devices as well as ISF shaders needed inbuilt modulation sources with midi-mappable macro
We hear you, and this is a long standing wish of ours as well.