Please Help...
I have blown the dust of old studio kit and I'm running it all from Ableton, using an APC40 to launching the midi parts in Ableton.
Great fun!!
Only one annoying thing so far...
The buttons on the APC40 will launch clips, the stop buttons work, the activator, solo and arm work too, but the APC40 volume fader won't control the overall volume or velocity of the midi track...
What am I missing here?
Is it something that Live and the APC40 can't do...?
Do I need to 're-route' the controller information from that fader?
Do I need to use MAX...?
I'm a bit stuck and would love some help please...
Thanks in advance...
x!
APC40 fader doesn't control volume of external midi device..
Re: APC40 fader doesn't control volume of external midi device..
Hello,
You are not missing anything indeed, Ableton is.
I had a long email exchange with them months ago about that. It took me ages so that they understand the problem, and eventually they argued it was not supported.
For instance, I wrote:
"As you probably know, there is a standardization called General MIDI that is over 20 years old by know, and has been widely used and adopted by most hardware & software makers all over the world. In there you find that Control Change 7 is affected to what we call "MIDI volume"."
They answered:
"General MIDI is not really supported in Live, only parts of it."
Live won't control volume for external devices. Sorry.
I found a workaround that requires Max4Live: use Live API.
with live.path & live.object, detect channel number of the Live track & grab the fader value... then you convert all in MIDI CC7... or you send thru OSC. LiveGrabber can be a good start for that.
You can't do it using directly APC40 MIDI, because if you move around tracks with the red border, the same fader won't affect the same Live track.
Nicolas
You are not missing anything indeed, Ableton is.
I had a long email exchange with them months ago about that. It took me ages so that they understand the problem, and eventually they argued it was not supported.
For instance, I wrote:
"As you probably know, there is a standardization called General MIDI that is over 20 years old by know, and has been widely used and adopted by most hardware & software makers all over the world. In there you find that Control Change 7 is affected to what we call "MIDI volume"."
They answered:
"General MIDI is not really supported in Live, only parts of it."
Live won't control volume for external devices. Sorry.
I found a workaround that requires Max4Live: use Live API.
with live.path & live.object, detect channel number of the Live track & grab the fader value... then you convert all in MIDI CC7... or you send thru OSC. LiveGrabber can be a good start for that.
You can't do it using directly APC40 MIDI, because if you move around tracks with the red border, the same fader won't affect the same Live track.
Nicolas