Setting two midi signals to one ableton button

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:03 pm

make sure that the recieving midi track is sending its midi out to the desired IAC channel.

Guess I didn't quit posting afterall.

A_Guy · Post by **A_Guy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:43 pm

I got the midi going out to Midid yoke: 8 ch 1

But when i goto assign midi to the button. how do i tell the button which signal it must respond to? i press the button on my controler. but it uses the controler button not the midi one.

how do i tell the midi clip what to send?

sorry i am compleatly lost and as i said. i am new at this.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:13 pm

If I understand correctly, there is a conflict because live is reading your hardware device over the software. If this is the case, perhaps temporarilly deselecting this device, and only leaving midiyoke connected will work. Just make sure that mid yoke is selected as a remote device.

A_Guy · Post by **A_Guy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:19 pm

how do i trigger my midi clip sothat i can get ableton to detect the midi signal?

A_Guy · Post by **A_Guy** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:02 pm

i am still stuck with the same problem. Just not managing to get this right.

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:56 pm

make sure monitor mode is set to in on the track with your virtual midi port enabled as the output, and set the input to be your control surface.

you'll know when this track is receiving midi, as the track level lights up.

you can now map the control through the virtual midi bus

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:48 am

well, first forget about your cd-player. first you should get your midi-remote-loop going.

1 Make a midi channel. output midi yoke. make a clip, looping, with one note.

2 go to the midi preferences. mdid-yoke-in has to have "remote" enabled, midi-yoke-out has to have "note" enabled.

Your looping clip si sendig a note out which is coming in as remote-midi-message now.

3 now start your clip. it sends out the note, looping.

4 go to midi-assign-mode, click on the button you want to control. the next time the note is being played/sent, it will assign to your button.

5 go out of midi assing mode. stop your clip. now deselect loop on that clip.

this clip should now remotely turn on or off the button you have assigned in step 4.

6 make a copy of that clip.

7. go to midi-assign-mode, assign each button on the cd player to one of the midi clips.

caution: make sure that the note you choose in step one does not conflict with the notes your controller sends out. Easy solution: while your controller sends notes on midi-channel 1 and 2, choose as midi output in step 1 above midi-yoke-out-channel 3.