Video Tutorial: Sync Resolume 3 from Ableton Live with MIDI

[bart]

Joris has been busy again, this time a great video tutorial on how to synchronise and control Avenue from Live using MIDI. Also checkout the written tutorial for step by step instructions.

[oddmachine]

Apparently the midi clock coming from Ableton is very unreliable. I've found the only way to get completely reliable results is to use the ableton interface to control resolume completely. Using a midi sync signal from Abletone makes even a simple "scale on beat" from a flat image unreliable at best, at worst it's glitchy and definitely not ready for live performance.

Maybe I've missed something or it's fixed in this new version of Resolume which would be AMAZING!!!

-Nick Kraly

[Joris]

Hey Nick

Of course we always recommend to update to the latest version, to take advantage of the latest bug fixes and improvements. However this tutorial was made using the 3.1.2 build, and I haven't experienced any of the problems you mention. I even show a 'scale on beat' with a flat image as an example in the video.

Could you be a bit more specific on what you mean by glitchy, or what features are unreliable for you? Then we can work on improving it.

Joris

[oddmachine]

First, I think Resolume it totally amazing work! I've been doing a lot of experimenting using Ableton and Actionscript to drive imagery and it's blowing my mind. Hope to have some things in my performance set soon.

However, what I've discovered is that the Ableton sync clock wavers, and so getting completely reliable timing in Resolume is very difficult. In Resolume, the flat image doing a repeat scale, will occasionally miss, or reset at an awkward time. I'm doing some fairly minimal work so it becomes a problem. It appears that that is actually happening in your demo.

I don't think it's a Resolume issue actually. I tried using an external midi clock to drive both Ableton and Resolume, and Resolume responds very well to that, but if Ableton is in slave mode, it doesn't really do what I'm looking for. I've read about products doing something to "smooth out" the Ableton sync clock?

If I just turn off Resolume's sync clock, and fire events directly from the Ableton timeline, then things really start to be tight. But what I'm looking for is some way to keep it in sync live.

-Nick

[kenwilliams]

I was having trouble with that until I found this video. Great video. Thanks for posting.