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If someone ever stumbles over this post in the future: After trying everything I've read here and in other forums/groups as well as giving the plugin from another vendor a shot as well, I gave up and just created a solution myself using max4live. Works like a charm for what I need and integrates eve...

Hey community! So I have a Roland TR-8S drum machine and got a VST plugin to control it. What I would like to achieve is to be able to control the drum machine with the VST plugin so I can for example automate it. But I would also like to work on the machine and record whatever I do on the hardware ...

just wanted to tell that it works now as it should.

i've found a nice tutorial that really focuses on external midi hardware, so this might help others getting started with midi hardware as well:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb07/a ... h_0207.htm

just wanted to tell that it works now as it should.

i've found a nice tutorial that really focuses on external midi hardware, so this might help others getting started with midi hardware as well:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb07/a ... h_0207.htm

well. that didnt really help me any further so far... when I add an external instrument and configure it to send midi to the synth and recieve audio from the input channels on my audio device, I have no idea where I should tell the synth what preset it should use. there's nothing to chose that in ab...

okay thanks. I'll check that chapter of the manual and come back if I still dont get it

Hello folks! I just want to be sure that I got really got this point right: Lets say I'm using a hardware synthesizer with preset A as an external instrument in ableton live to produce music. Some days later, after having started a couple of other projects with other presets, I load that first proje...

oh my god. is this really true? i bought a synthesizer these days and was going crazy because i didnt figure out how to make ableton remember/recall the preset i was using in a track when i open it. so the answer to the question, why i didnt get that to work is simply, that its not possible in ablet...