Isotonik Modular Series - Dummy 1.0.1

A culmination of a few ideas i've been working on over the past few months....



With the floating window control being midi mappable everything is controlled through it...

I'm having fun drawing new dummy clips and revisiting old Effect racks to add more to my sonic arsenal now that a set of 8 buttons can choose from 8 different effects instantly for the track in focus....



The standalone device will go into the Modular Series dropbox but the master template will contain the device plus the Effects Racks and Dummy Clips preloaded, i'll figure a way of integrating it to give control from the APC40 in a while... Currently i'm using my Nanokontrol to map to the device...

Cheers
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Isotonik Modular Series - S3nd5 1.0.1

Another day another device....



This one gives you control over the first 8 sends of the track in focus, you can map to the dials which update as the track focus changes and have 8 knobs permanently assigned to look after the sends....



Map to buttons A - H with a Midi CC and you get momentary control of the sends, great for firing some audio to a Ping Pong delay for example....

You can use a control surface with this device by clicking the configure button, choosing the controls you want and changing the Inactive tabs to Mapped, you can also select if these controls behave in a momentary or toggle manner....



The real Fun begins when you combine it with a R3turn device!!



With this you can map to the S3nd5 device buttons 1 - 8 and not only send the audio of the track in focus to a return track but also trigger a dummy clip that will control the rack held within that return track!

Lots of fun and an ever changing bank of effects that can be quickly and easily reached with just one button press...

This device can be found as part of the Modul4r series folder, to subscribe just click the buy now button on the right....!

Isotonik Modular Series - Sl1cer 1.0.5

Really excited by this one as it allows APC40 users to configure the device as they see fit....

First drop a slicer onto an audio or midi track (after an instrument)....

Then click the configure button...



Then select which button you want for each action.....



And Click the top Inactive button to map all the buttons..... If you want to leave some of the buttons unmapped by the control surface then click each Inactive button individually....



If you want the default action of the button to be a toggle rather than a momentary then change the status of the far right button per control (this is permanent and won't then be effected by the Hold functionality)

Next drop a D1sabler 1.0.5 device on the master track and click the diable button to open the floating window, turn red the buttons you have mapped within the Sl1cer device and click the button next to the APC40 drop down menu....



And now the device is ready, when you save the set the settings are saved so you only need to do this once!

The Hold functionality turns the 8 slice buttons and 8 effect buttons into toggles rather than momentary actions and the lights on the APC40 light up accordingly....

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The metronome button turns on the running lights to give you visual feedback on your midi device of which Slice is playing at that time....

The Quarters button can be changed to Eights to capture just one bar of audio rather than two and have smaller slices....

The reset button is subject to a loadbang but sets up the filter effects parameters....

The Dial below Gate is a crossfade for the slices, i like it up full but when you are using the Gate effect you can soften it's edges using this...

The Dial below the Stop button controls the speed of the turntable stop from sharp to a slow turn off, think the TT's stop button with it to the left and turning the power off with it to the right....

The Dial below the Rev button controls the speed of the reverse, all the way to the left is normal time backwards but turning it up gives a quicker speed....

And finally the Dial between the Up and Down Buttons controls the rate at which the filter acts on the audio.....

You could do this with a Launchpad as well but i don't have one myself to create a D1sabler device specific to it..... (anyone near Dunstable that wants to donate one for a week or so gets free entry to the dropbox!)

Cheers
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Isotonik Modular Series - Disabler 1.0.3

One of the challenges of working with the APC40 is when you want it to do something other than the standard functionality, of course you can hard midi map the controls but then you lose what you original bought the controller for...

Much better is to be able to disable and re-enable the standard functionality at will dependant on which buttons are pressed or what scene you're in...

The device detailed below does exactly that, thanks to Mark Egloff at Ableton i've been able to create a simple device that gives you access to all of the buttons (well it will do when i've finished it!)to allow you to listen to their status, light them independantly and enable or disable them....

Saving the device within a template will allow you torecall it's settings when you open the set again, it'll then update the APC40 so you simply need to initialise with a bang to the button and select the correct control surface from the menu...



Cheers
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Isotonik Modular Series - Sl1cer 1.0.2

For anyone that doesn't have an APC40 and thought the main device is too complex for their use....

This device isolates the most popluar effects, based on the feedback, of the Isotonik master...

With 16 pads you can utilise all of the effects when the Solo Tab is selected as the device will only effect the audio on the currently highlighted track....

If you have enough pads spare you can select the Multi tab and have direct control over as many devices as you can map (i'm thinking four would work with one user page of a launchpad)...

This device is a part of both the Isotonik Master and Modular Dropboxes, membership if which comes after you click the buy now buttons to the right....



Cheers
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Serato Bridge & DJ Mix Tools

I've been playing around with the bridge, without a DJ Mixer i route the output of the SL1 back into Ableton via a Motu 828 mkII with no noticeable latency (probably too much to scratch with but as you can see i'm no DJ Premier!)

With this routing i can use Isotonik on the Serato tracks i'm playing and sync these with clips from Ableton....

All the clips come from a new style of pack from Loopmasters, instead of short static loops these are full songs broken down into stems that evolve over time meaning you can easily create your own new tracks out of them or even just add some needed oomph to your mixing....

The pack i'm demoing here (only using two of the included tracks) is the Tech House Minimal Pack, whilst Serato is blasting out a track from Ableton master Steve Lawler!!

You'll see i've added to my setup the Dicers from Novation, they're brilliant! Buy some!!

Cheers
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