Assuming you know how to use ableton's extremely helpful midi and keystroke learn functions, here are a couple of ideas:meeble wrote:Hello,
I'm looking to use a setup like this with my FCB1010. Currently, everything works well when I trigger recording with the mouse in a cell.
But, how should I setup my FCB1010 to make ONE foot-switch start recording on the first available cell on a track? i.e. I hit a foot-switch to record a loop in the first cell on a track - but the first attempt to loop my bass may not go so well, so I hit the same FCB switch again to start recording on the next scene down on the same track. I want to be able to do this again and again until I like the loop performance. any ideas?
thx
meeble
First of all, get a free midi translation program like bomes or controlaid or whatever fits your need. You will need it to do that kind of thing.
Although I am not sure how you may go about making the same button do different things each time you push it, I think bomes will do that.....
Another approach might be to route one of your buttons to the "delete key" and another to "command z" (undo) and then if you don't like the first run of the loop you can either hit delete or undo from your board and then redo it on the same clip slot using the same record button on your FCB1010. Also eliminates having to fill up your track with a bunch of "bad" clips. Again, you'll need a translation app like midistroke for this.