Making the drummer the metronome for Ableton a la James Blake

Heya everyone, I use a lot of tempo changes in my playing style. I strongly dislike playing to a click, but want to play live with other musicians who use loops in Ableton. I was listening to Why We Bleep podcast with James Blake. At 1:08 in he talks about using the Mutable Instruments Yarns MIDI controller to sync his live drummer in concerts to his Eurorack synth, so I know it’s possible. I’ve found very little online that gives details of the integration.

If anyone has clues on how to put this puzzle together, please do let me know. I’ll be seeing him live on the 12th at the Greek in LA. Can anyone get me backstage? :smiley: I’ll be happy to share the setup once I get it working.

Hey @crisbeasley - this isn’t really possible right now with the current release (2.6.5). But we have some new stuff cooking in this area that will be out in beta soon…

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You can count on me to be your enthusiastic tester of this! Fabulous news!!! Oh, and congrats on the David Byrne integration. What a cool thing to witness. <3