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Tutorial - Blue Cat's Digital Peak Meter Pro In Ableton Live

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Tutorial - Blue Cat's Digital Peak Meter Pro In Ableton Live

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the DP Meter Pro plugin (DPMP)'s real time capabilities in Ableton Live: use it to let any instrument influence the parameters of any effect for any other instrument. This tutorial shows these capabilities with Blue Cat's free effect.

Note: if you are on Mac, you have to use the VST version, because Live does not support MIDI output for Audio Units nor VST3.

Step By Step

01 - insert the DPMP on the source track (select the track and drag and drop the plug-in):

Step 01 - insert the DPMP on the source track (select the track and drag and drop the plug-in)

02 - Select the DPMP preset settings in the main menu (right click on the background):

Step 02 - Select the DPMP preset settings in the main menu (right click on the background)

03 - Enable the DPMP Midi output for the transformed peak envelope, and set the CC number:

Step 03 - Enable the DPMP Midi output for the transformed peak envelope, and set the CC number

04 - insert the effect you want to control on the target track (we are using Blue Cat's Stereo Chorus here):

Step 04 - insert the effect you want to control on the target track (we are using Blue Cat's Stereo Chorus here)

05 - Select the chorus presets settings in the main menu:

Step 05 - Select the chorus presets settings in the main menu

06 - Enable the chorus MIDI input for selected parameters, set MIDI Channel to Omni (0) and MIDI CC to the same value as for the DPMP output:

Step 06 - Enable the chorus MIDI input for selected parameters, set MIDI Channel to Omni (0) and MIDI CC to the same value as for the DPMP output

07 - Insert a MIDI track:

Step 07 - Insert a MIDI track

08 - Switch to the 'Session' view:

Step 08 - Switch to the 'Session' view

09 - Select the source DPMP track as input, and the chorus destination track as output (for an external device, use the MIDI output port):

Step 09 - Select the source DPMP track as input, and the chorus destination track as output (for an external device, use the MIDI output port)

10 - Hit the play button, the selected parameters are now being changed according to the source track envelope:

Step 10 - Hit the play button, the selected parameters are now being changed according to the source track envelope

11 - Hide the RMS curves on the DPMP to monitor only the peaks:

Step 11 - Hide the RMS curves on the DPMP to monitor only the peaks

12 - Tweak the Amount and offset parameters of the DPMP:

Step 12 - Tweak the Amount and offset parameters of the DPMP

13 - Tweak the Chorus MIDI response curve parameters (Min,Max,Response):

Step 13 - Tweak the Chorus MIDI response curve parameters (Min,Max,Response)

14 - Tweak the DPMP MIDI output response:

Step 14 - Tweak the DPMP MIDI output response

15 - Enjoy and play:

Step 15 - Enjoy and play
You are now able to use the DP Meter Pro plugin with Ableton Live: you can now use this methodology with other effects. All combinations are possible, and you can even use external hardware devices as targets of the DPMP MIDI CC messages!

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