Noob question about using effects plugins in Ableton with SD2

[biguana]

Hi all,

I’m thinking of getting a Macbook Pro, M-Audio Profire 610 and SD2 in the next couple of months, to trigger from my Roland TD-10 EXP brain live at gigs. I’ll be using Ableton as a host.

I am completely new to Ableton (and in fact to sequencers in general, and music software in general – I’d only ever played acoustic kit until a few months ago). But the possibility that struck me as really exciting was that I might be able to ‘pre-draw’ different effects levels at different points throughout a song (at the moment I use an expression pedal with an Ensoniq DP/4 to change effects levels during a song).

So could I have SD2 running as a plugin in a given track in Ableton, and then put one of Ableton’s devices, say a filter, in that track, and then use the ‘draw’ tool to draw a gradient for the envelope from -127 at 4 bars in to +127 at 8 bars in, then start the track and play my pads and have the sound change during the song according to what I have drawn?

Sorry if that’s a really dumb noob question but there it is! Any help much appreciated :o)

Tom

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