Why is my APC40 sending MIDI notes to my Ultranova?

[ianmgull]

I'm doing a bit of custom mapping of my APC40. I've mapped the main record button to turn on a beat repeat on the master track. It works fine except when the Ultranova is turned on. In the MIDI map window the "note" that the main record button sends is A5. This is the note I hear on the keyboard. I enabled "remote" mode on the APC as per someone else's suggestions to custom map it the way I did. I'm wondering if there is a way to send these messages to ableton, but not back out to the ultranova. I've attached an image of my MIDI prefs (you can also see the Ultranova MIDI track if that is of any use. I turned off its MIDI input as you can see thinking that would solve things).

Thanks!!

ian

[Palmer Eldritch]

Hi ian,

When you remote Live, Live gives a Feedback to ALL ports where Remote is switched on (in the midi preferences).

To solve your problem deactivate the Ultranova (input/output) for Remote in the Midi Preferences or find a Midi Channel for the Ultranova which is not used by your APC40.

Cheers, palmer

[AceLuby]

Change the MIDI channel on the ultranova to send on channel 16.

[ianmgull]

Hi ian,

When you remote Live, Live gives a Feedback to ALL ports where Remote is switched on (in the midi preferences).

To solve your problem deactivate the Ultranova (input/output) for Remote in the Midi Preferences or find a Midi Channel for the Ultranova which is not used by your APC40.

Cheers, palmer

Thanks for the info guys. How do I know which MIDI channels are used by the APC? I've got the Ultranova on Channel 1. My lighting controller (DMXIS) is using 15 &16.

[Palmer Eldritch]

Hi ian,

Below is a link to a very useful and free Software for the Mac when one wants to know what's going on in regard to midi.

http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/

So you can monitor the midi channel(s) of all the knobs/sliders/pads etc. of your APC and choose an unused channel for your ultranova.

[ianmgull]

Thanks for all the info. Disabling remote in/out on the ultranova solved the problem but I'll definately check out the MIDI app to get a better sense of what's going on.

THANKS SO MUCH!

[AceLuby]

Hi ian,

When you remote Live, Live gives a Feedback to ALL ports where Remote is switched on (in the midi preferences).

To solve your problem deactivate the Ultranova (input/output) for Remote in the Midi Preferences or find a Midi Channel for the Ultranova which is not used by your APC40.

Cheers, palmer

Thanks for the info guys. How do I know which MIDI channels are used by the APC? I've got the Ultranova on Channel 1. My lighting controller (DMXIS) is using 15 &16.

The APC uses channels 1-9 (maybe 10 too, it's been a while)

[Palmer Eldritch]

I don't agree with any of the previous comments

Sorry Peter but I have to disagree with you

Your informations are not wrong in general but in this case it seems more of a problem that I have described in my first post of this thread.
If you remote Live (via midi > Remote) then Live also gives a Feedback to all the midi ports where Remote is switched on.

You can check this: >
For example, learn the Volume of Track 1 to a Fader of a faderbox which is sending its values on the first midi-port (NOT Midi Channel).
In midi preferences switch the output remote button of your second midi-port to on.
Now use a midi monitor software to check what midi informations are send via the second port.
In my case (Mac) I use the "midi monitor" from snoize (Checkmark "Spy on output to destinations).
Now move the fader of the faderbox and you will see that Live is sending midi informations out to your second port. (The same if you move the Volume Fader of track 1 directly in Live). This happens as well if you learn a clip to remote it and then start this clip.

Unfortunately I do not know which software on Window Systems could be used for midi-monitoring - But I am sure that you can build this yourself via max-msp

cheers, palmer