Scrolling vertically and horizontally via MIDI

Pannik · Post by **Pannik** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:42 pm

Hi guys,

is there any possibilty to scroll with my MIDI Controller
vertically and horizontally through my clips ?

Thanks in advance

Greetz

Pannik

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:14 pm

Yes indeed.

In fact you already asked this question and had it answered....

Here:http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

laurence wrote:
Pannik wrote:how can I scroll up/down or left/right ?
Click MIDI learn and assign a controller to the buttons circled

remember?

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:20 pm

i dont think left & right is possible without some third party software (bomes etc) or with Mackie emulation

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:25 pm

It is possible. I use my faderfoxes like this all the time.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:32 pm

ollyb303 wrote:It is possible. I use my faderfoxes like this all the time.

yeah but that's not normal behaviour, its built in to the script of your controller.....that's what i meant about using mackie emulation, a lot of the supported control surfaces can do it but its not really natively possible to do with say an old midi keyboard with a knob on it

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:46 pm

Fair enough. I've only really used faderfoxes with Live and no other controllers (was reliant on mouse and keyboard before I got the £ together for my foxes!), didn't occur to me that it was anything but "normal". Seems like it should be.

again,

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:55 pm

yeah it should be....one of live's downfalls is that it claims but be focused on live use but there are some serious live workflow killers, especially to do with midi and making your own custom scripts

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:08 pm

don't get me started on midi limitations!!!!!

Pannik · Post by **Pannik** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:23 pm

thanks guys.

I know that I can controll the scenes via midi,

but I guess to scroll through the clips doesn't work with my controllers (TriggerFinger, Uc-33 and BCR)

Pannik · Post by **Pannik** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:27 pm

@ laurence

Sorry I haven't got any reply mail.

So for me there was never an answer!

SORRY SORRY

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:34 pm

you can use the BCR in mackie emulation & i *think* you can go left to right with that

Pannik · Post by **Pannik** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:37 pm

is something like that in anyway possible ?
(i hope you understand my english)

for example, I have 5 scenes within 5 clips

scene 1 :clip 1 is CC1, clips 2 is CC2, clip 3 is CC3, ..............

scene 2 :clip 1 is CC1, clips 2 is CC2, clip 3 is CC3, ..............

scene 3 :clip 1 is CC1, clips 2 is CC2, clip 3 is CC3, ..............

wouldn't it be cool,
if I could trigger scene 1 and trigger clip 1 with CC1

and if trigger scene 2 after that and can trigger clip 1 of scene 2 also with CC1 !

the system has to realize that I'm in scene 2 and I want to trigger only clips in scene 2.

i hope you understand what I mean ....

Thanks

Pannik

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:42 pm

just use Mackie Emulation & you can scroll up/down/left/right and trigger any clip or scene that is selected. It doesn't need to be very complicated

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:50 pm

give this a look, im sure it'll probably do what you need

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... bcr+mackie

thoffir · Post by **thoffir** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:53 pm

up/down like in second post. right/left with 3rd party software midi mapped to left an right cursor. i'm use free midistroke (os x) but there should be plenty on win platform. faderfox probably has some in its driver as this is not possible via clean midi learn. ableton really should add that. if you use only two tracks and lot of horizontal scenes it can be done by clicking on pie with bar marker (automaticaly switches to waveform view) - it is even beter than regular right/left for dj purposes.