How do you select instruments to play live without mouseing?

[randallp]

I've been trying to work out how use a "Novation Impulse 61 keys/DAW control thingy" to control the selection of Live instruments that are loaded into tracks (Newbie at this).

I'd like to have a few backing clips loaded in scenes and be able to just quickly press a button to select/layer additional instruments to play live alongside them. With the Impulse (a newish device) I can't see any way of doing this without mouse clicks. There is no "arm" facility it seems.

This leads me to believe I must be missing something fundamental or maybe another controller would work better.

Pls excuse my ignorance - I've just really used Live to playback to date and I'm busy engaging the congregation whilst leading worship so can't spend much time clicking and peering at a screen

[Samaritan Sound]

I'm not familiar with the Impulse, but generally speaking, you can set each track to a different MIDI channel, ARM all tracks, then switch channels on the controller.

[so_watt]

Better solution (in my opinion):

Leave the "MIDI from" values at "All ins"
and map buttons on the Impulse (e.g. those under the sliders) to the arm buttons of the tracks you want to arm

[delicioso]

You should be able to do that using Novation Impulse as a Mackie HUI control surface using Automap.