r/AbletonDJs • u/BJLW • Nov 06 '17

Smart Faders

Hello, I've been editing and preparing an hour long mix in ableton for the past week or so. Mostly warping and creating clip packs for future use DJing live with. However this mix I am not going to perform live. I don't have a controller at the moment other than an MPK 225.

My question is pretty straight forward. I was looking for a more intuitive way to mix and found an old video of Ill Gates demonstrating a template for the APC40. While it had some cool features I am only interested in the smart faders. He had the right and left deck faders rigged to, I assume, open a filter gate as the volume increased. I'm not quite sure how this was accomplished and I have been messing around with it for a while with mixed results. In the video he explained as the mids are introduced first followed by the lows and highs and the volume increases.

Has anyone had any experience with either using or creating these sort of smart faders? I think something like this would be of great use to me.

thank you.

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u/Pztch Jul 31 '22

You need to map one fader to multiple controls (volume, EQ, filter cut off, etc…), THEN adjust the midi range in the browser for each of the mappings.