Firstly please excuse the newbie questions. I KNOW parts or all of it are answered all over the place, believe me, I have spent hours looking. The problem is I am such a newbie that I don't understand the tech words used in the answers! My question is as follows;
1. I want to use the APC40 to control Live, so I don't need to be looking at the screen and clicking on the mouse the whole time. This I think is simple. But at the same time:
2. I want to load the Maschine up with Komplete 8 ultimate
3. When I play all the sounds and loops on the Maschine, I want them to record as midi in Ableton, using the instruments from Komplete 8 (ie Ableton doesn't just import the patterns from Maschine and then assign them to its own instruments, it uses the Komplete instruments). So the sound I hear from the Maschine is the same I will hear when I play back from Live. But I want them as Midi so I can edit more easily than audio, also so I can choose whether to keep the original instrument, change it, layer it, etc.
4. Sometimes I want to play the Komplete instruments in Maschine and have Ableton record them as audio.
I think this is all possible. Am I right? Note, I am not asking you to tell me how to set it all up (unless you have time of course) - I will happily keep reading the manuals etc, trying to figure it out. But first I just want to know whether it is possible so I have a reason to keep putting in the hours!
Hey, thanks in advance, really appreciate your help!