Jam with my friend + Queries!

Hi folks! Thought I’d share something here and get some thoughts from the community while I’m at it.

My friend and I have been working towards some live music with SP integrations, and we’ve been trying to figure out the most optimal setup for our equipment situation.
I posted about this before here, and after trying a few different setups each session, in our most recent sesssion a little while ago we ultimately decided on a single laptop running SP inside of Live, in order to maximize the possibility of interactions with MIDI CC data and other SP features with the synthesizer side of things.

For this jam, the hardware setup was fairly straightforward: we left out the Push here in favour of a keyboard controller, and used a single mic for the drums, leaving room to plug in a vocal mic or guitar into the Evans Portal.

I’m using the acoustic sound of my snare and cymbals, and there are some samples mapped to the kick and the rim of my snare.
The tom has no sounds on it at all – it’s used purely as a controller for the keyboard. We used CC controls to have the tom open a gate on the chord held by the keyboard (which had Live’s built-in arpeggiator on it), which was quite fun and engaging!

However, we wanted to dig a little deeper into the programming but couldn’t figure out how to accomplish what we wanted – I was wondering if there’s a way to have the tom recognize the notes held by the chord and generate those notes independently rather than controlling an existing sound?
I wasn’t quite sure how to go about this, and tinkering with note and hit controllers didn’t quite have the same effect.

Hope you like this lil’ jam! I’m open to thoughts on how to streamline this setup further, with cable management being a bonus (although I don’t expect that to be realistic, haha)!

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Sounds good!!

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that’s an awesome jam! you can totally use midi sample and hold to play trigger notes from SP that are currently active on the keys. It could take a bit of manipulation of the MIDI to be a smooth experience with live MIDI input (mainly thinking about note length) but hopefully that can get you close to what you’re aiming for.

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Kinda cool. I have the same drum kit.

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I love it! I ended up downsizing my kit a few months ago from a Pearl Export (18x22 kick) so I could have more space in my room given the space my mallet instruments take up haha, and this one both feels and looks great!

Thanks Mason, this is so cool! Will definitely look into it.

Very creative! Nice work

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Loving these vibes @rrv24!

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Thank you!