new to live, midi keyboard question

[bhc303]

I can only play notes on clips while the record armed light is on (button under solo on clip bar)

can I set it up to play without the button armed?

How?

suite 8

novation sl 25 mk1

Thanks in advance!

cheers

[ark]

Click the rectangle labled "In" under the word "Monitor" in the channel strip.

[bhc303]

sweet!

cheers

[bhc303]

now it triggers every clip with "in" armed?

is there a way around this?

sorry for noob questions but I have to figure out my work flow with live, long time cubase user here...

live rulz!

[brephophagist]

now it triggers every clip with "in" armed?

is there a way around this?

well the obvious answer here is to only have "in" selected for one track at a time.

but... if you're looking for something akin to "select a track, play its instrument", then I'm not sure there's a way to do that in Live (wiser heads, chime in, as I'd love to learn if there is). Assuming I'm right, there are a few workarounds:

1. Set different instruments to receive on different MIDI channels (i.e. not global), if your controller has a way to quickly change the keyboard's / global MIDI channel (not familiar with Novation controllers; not sure how easy this would be).

2. Set some of those buttons on that SL to turn on/off record arming or toggle monitor mode for the tracks.

Hope that helps some.

edit: apparently there is a way to do that with Automap on the Novation controllers, or by using the SL as a control surface instead of just a MIDI in. Like I said, little experience with Novation controllers, so not sure how one would go about doing so.

[bhc303]

cool,

cheers brephophagist! will look into this.

[synnack]

I can only play notes on clips while the record armed light is on (button under solo on clip bar)

can I set it up to play without the button armed?

How?

suite 8

novation sl 25 mk1

Thanks in advance!

cheers

Can I ask why? New clips will not be recorded in Session view unless you fire a clip slot on a record enabled track.

So you could just record enable multiple tracks and play at will yet only record on one of them for example.

What is your use case?