Thanks Andy,
Sounds interesting. A couple more questions:
- What is actually connected to your POD? Do you run a MIDI cable to the Ableton computer via a hardware interface?
- I'm still not sure how it 'knows' which patch to load, since you say the order doesn't matter... Wouldn't your MIDI signals have to request a specific patch (e.g. bank 1D), or does it work differently? Do you choose the patch manually on the POD, then the MIDI signals just change 'options' (like stomps) in the same patch?
We use Ableton too, and I have it sending MIDI signals for changing the words in time and experimented with changing lights too. Are you using multitracks.com stems? (we are, plus some of my own part recordings)
Cheers...