Ableton Forum

pucklermuskau wrote:hi frankie. Basically, for each track you have in ableton, youre going to want to set up a vertical column of monome buttons, as a radio widget. Then, in the 'address' area, youre going to enter something like "/midi/note_on a $1 127 1", where a is the subunit that the monome sends from (a,b,c, or d), $1 is the variable that will be controlled by each button in the radio widget, 127 is the velocity of the note, and 1 is the midi channel. Then for each button in the widget, you enter (in the 'value' box) the midi note that will be sent out (replacing the $1). Each time you press a button in the widget, it will sned out a note # whatever your value is, at 127 velocity, on channel 1. Note that the $1 can be placed anywhere in the expression, for example if you wanted to have the same note #60 sent out over different channels, you could write /midi/note_on a 60 127 $1, then have each button value be somewhere between 1-16, and each press will send out a note #60 to whatever channel you specify.
Hope that helps, really just the tip of the iceberg...

eamoon wrote:frankie: does the MIDI input light in the upper-right corner flash when you hit a monome button? If not, you probably need to go to preferences, pick MIDI/sync, and make sure that "Remote" is selected for the mapd device (I don't remember what it's called.)

frankie.solar wrote:the light doesn't flash. i've checked the preferences and remote is selected. still nothing.

eamoon wrote:frankie: does the MIDI input light in the upper-right corner flash when you hit a monome button? If not, you probably need to go to preferences, pick MIDI/sync, and make sure that "Remote" is selected for the mapd device (I don't remember what it's called.)