Trying to use Bome Translator Pro and Ableton to import loops from EZ Drummer 3 into my Elektron Digitakt
There is an excellent Youtube tutorial from Loopop on how to import drum loops into hardware sequencers using the Ableton MIDI Effect Rack, but the effect rack shown doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I decided to purchase Bome TP to do same. I am new to Bome but I know it can do this.
So, I’m wondering if anyone has used Bome to do this remapping and is there a project / preset out there that is available. (Yes, I’m digging into the manual and the tutorials in parallel to this query)
Or perhaps someone has gone thru this and laid out the steps.
Basically, I am trying to set up a bunch of EZ Drummer drum patterns on my Digitakt.
It’s brilliantly simple and should do the job, but something in Ableton seems to have changed and i don’t see this Midi Effect Rack as shown in the video. The video references Bome as an alternative, so i decided to purchase it.
But what is shown in the video is exactly what i am trying to do with Ableton-v12 - EZDrummer 3 —> Digitakt 2
Yes,
So essentially you need to have global variables in Bome MIDI Translator Pro that identifies a transpose amount for each incoming notes from Ableton->EZdrummer and sends out the transposed note to your Digitakt.
The attached file should get you started.
In the Init preset we set up our global variables
// Set offset for transpose base
ga=48
// incoming MIDI channel
gb=1
// outgoing MIDI channel
gc=9
// max number of notes
gd=16
// Note transposed based on offset adjusted incoming note
// User to adjust this for each incming note
// bass
g0=1
// snare
g1=3
// kick
g2=6
// and whatever else
These are just examples because I don’t know what you will be using. If you want 16 notes then you could go up to gf.
ga sets an offset so you can adjust that for different octaves
g0-gf will represent the 16 notes you want to transpose and their desired offset.
Translator 1.0 does the note-on work. If you need note-off, duplicate the translator with rules and change the incoming and outgoing messages from note-on to note-off.
I have my aliases as follows but you probably want to point Digitakt to you physical device.
You can learn more about aliases from this tutorial.
For now you will likely need to manually press record but it may be possible to have Ableton Live trigger this for you using MIDI Start and Stop Commands. There would need to be translators added for this.
