SideRack Tutorial: Integrating iPad's MIDI Piano Roll with Ableton Live

Learn how to input a pattern written in the MIDI piano roll on your iPad into a synthesizer on your Mac.
- Setting up routing in Ableton Live
- Writing a pattern in Atom Piano Roll 2 on the iPad
- Synchronizing the piano roll with Live's sequencer
- Using audio effects with the iPad's touch interface
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Transcription:
Welcome to the NovoNotes tutorial. Today, I'll show you how to input a pattern written in the MIDI piano roll on your iPad into a synthesizer on your Mac. Let's start with the routing in Ableton Live. Using MIDI effect plugins in Live can be a bit tricky, but the key point is to insert the MIDI effect and the instrument on separate tracks.
First, insert SideRack on the first MIDI track on the left. Select the SideRack MIDI effect. Next, insert the synthesizer on the second MIDI track. Set the "MIDI From" on the synthesizer track to the track where you inserted the SideRack plugin. Set the monitor to "In." The routing is now complete. Open the SideRack window and connect to your iPad. Select Atom Piano Roll 2. The piano roll plugin will appear on the iPad. To make it full screen, press this button.
Now, let's input a pattern. Set the loop range. Press the play button in Live. As you can see, when Live is played, the piano roll on the iPad also plays simultaneously. To show that it can be used together with Live's piano roll, let's add a kick track. Input a kick pattern in the piano roll in Live. Play it back. You can see that the sequencer in Live and the piano roll on the iPad are perfectly synchronized. Changing the tempo is no problem.
Next, to create a more interesting sound, let's add an audio effect. Insert the SideRack audio effect on the bass track. Add delay. The delay tempo is also perfectly synchronized. Let's add EQ. The screen automatically changes. As you can see, every operation is so intuitive. Try bypassing it. You can also rearrange effects.
By combining the DAW on your Mac with plugins on your iPad, you can achieve more flexible music production. Thank you for watching.
*The English voiceover is auto-generated.

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Here are the plugins we used this time:
Atom Piano Roll 2: apps.apple.com/us/app/atom-piano-roll-2/id1536259776
Yukawa: icegear.net/yukawa/
Pro-Q3: www.fabfilter.com/products/pro-q-3-equalizer-plug-in

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It seems that Atom Piano Roll 2 does not output MIDI unless the Launch button in the upper left is pressed. (1:54)