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Not sure if it will help, but try setting "TakeOver Mode" to Value Scaling in Live's midi preferences.

When mapping the crossfader, look really carefully at it: it's divided into three "zones" - mapping your controller to the
small zones on either side will make it behave like you explained - mapping it to the big one in the middle will make it behave
the way you want it to.

you can also map the left/center/right sides to keystrokes, I use 3 keys as my crossfader commands and I love the way it works.

just assign one key to the left side, one to the right and one in the center, works way better than an encoder, I'm on an SL 25 as well, tried this a few different ways but keep coming back to use the keys.

mike_o wrote:you can also map the left/center/right sides to keystrokes, I use 3 keys as my crossfader commands and I love the way it works.

just assign one key to the left side, one to the right and one in the center, works way better than an encoder, I'm on an SL 25 as well, tried this a few different ways but keep coming back to use the keys.

Does that give you a smooth fade, though? Won't it just skip from hard left to centre to hard right?

The mod wheel on my Oxygen 8v2 is pretty good for this task (I don't have any faders available).
This is one case where a non-endless encoder is preferable to an endless.

sporkles wrote:

mike_o wrote:you can also map the left/center/right sides to keystrokes, I use 3 keys as my crossfader commands and I love the way it works.

just assign one key to the left side, one to the right and one in the center, works way better than an encoder, I'm on an SL 25 as well, tried this a few different ways but keep coming back to use the keys.

Does that give you a smooth fade, though? Won't it just skip from hard left to centre to hard right?

The mod wheel on my Oxygen 8v2 is pretty good for this task (I don't have any faders available).
This is one case where a non-endless encoder is preferable to an endless.

yeah, it will just cut hard, but thats how I like to use it, maybe not right for your play methods but it works awesome here.

If you right-click (ctrl-click) on the crossfader, you can choose the behaviour of the fading.