- #Ableton live controller how to#
- #Ableton live controller software#
- #Ableton live controller professional#
# recognize the ports for you when you select your Instant-Mappings # If your controller is connected via USB, replace ControllerName # The channel that the controller should send on # an explicit channel setting are expected to use the # We assume that the controls on your MIDI controller In this folder I put the following file, called UserConfiguration.txt # Config File for User-defined Instant Mappings So I created the folder Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 8.1.5/User Remote Scripts/AKAI LPD8/. This script must be placed in a subfolder named after your controller. Here you will find actual instructions and a template for writing your own script. The key is to find the User Remote Scripts folder in your Preferences for Ableton Live. This tutorial was for setting up a similar (but inferiour…) controller, so I tweaked the scripts a little for the LPD8. But I found an easier way in an article called Ableton Live MIDI Remote Scripting How To: Custom Korg nanoSERIES Control.
#Ableton live controller how to#
The official Ableton Live manual has nothing about how to do this, and searching around on the internet may lead you down a severely complicated path with multiple python scripts and internal APIs etc. So to get to this exalted level of controller support, we need to implement native support for the LPD8. This is the most interesting feature of natively supported controllers, because then you can use the same knobs to control all different instruments and sound parameters depending on what is currently selected. Now, the problem with the Manual Control and MIDI Learn mapping is that the link between the knob and the control is not context sensitive.
#Ableton live controller software#
The last step is to go to MIDI Learn mode, select the parameter you want to change, and move the corresponding knob to link the knob to the software control. Twiddling the knobs will now send MIDI data to Live, but nothing really happens just yet. To start using the LPD8 in “Manual Control Surface Setup” mode, you must go to the Preferences, MIDI Ports section, and enable the “Remote” button. So a lot of the more powerful features of remote controllers, such as instant mapping and device locking, are not enabled by default. There is no native support for the LPD8 knobs in Ableton Live, though. So just load up a drum kit on a MIDI track, arm it, and start hitting those triggers. When you first connect the LPD8, it will show up in Live as a MIDI note input device enabled for triggering note events. It is plug’n’play for Windows and Mac, so in theory you can just connect it and start using it with your favourite music production software. It has 8 sensitive trigger pads and 8 assignable knobs. The Akai LPD8 is an ultra-portable pad controller.
This is how to set up Ableton Live to use the Akai LPD8 controller. So finally the contents of this article is not relevant anymore 🙂
#Ableton live controller professional#
Improvements and feature changes: Added control surface support for Akai Professional LPD8. UPDATE: The following is a quote from the release notes for Ableton Live 8.2.2:Ĩ.2.2 Release Notes.
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