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Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Expression Control

The Max for Live device called Expression Control has actually been around for a while, and since the release of Live 11, it lives in the main MIDI effects category in the browser, as it is MPE-compatible. Even before MPE, this device was really great to push the modulation skills to the next level!

Expression Control is a very simple device that allows you to modulate parameters, which you can map yourself, so it gives you a great deal of flexibility. You can get started with it straight away with ease.

Let’s take a quick tour of it!

Figure 12.21 – The Expression Control MIDI effect device

Figure 12.21 – The Expression Control MIDI effect device

You can select a MIDI parameter under MIDI In, which then can be mapped to a target parameter in Live with the Map buttons underneath Mapping. You can see in Figure 12.21 that I mapped Random to Filter 1 Frequency of the Wavetable device (on the Wavetable track within the Chapter 12 project).

Next to the Mapping tab, you can...

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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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