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new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:45 pm
by bhc303
I can only play notes on clips while the record armed light is on (button under solo on clip bar)
can I set it up to play without the button armed?
How?
suite 8
novation sl 25 mk1
Thanks in advance!
cheers
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:51 pm
by ark
Click the rectangle labled "In" under the word "Monitor" in the channel strip.
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:26 am
by bhc303
sweet!
cheers
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:30 am
by bhc303
now it triggers every clip with "in" armed?
is there a way around this?
sorry for noob questions but I have to figure out my work flow with live, long time cubase user here...
live rulz!
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:46 am
by brephophagist
bhc303 wrote:now it triggers every clip with "in" armed?
is there a way around this?
well the obvious answer here is to only have "in" selected for one track at a time.
but... if you're looking for something akin to "select a track, play its instrument", then I'm not sure there's a way to do that in Live (wiser heads, chime in, as I'd love to learn if there is). Assuming I'm right, there are a few workarounds:
1. Set different instruments to receive on different MIDI channels (i.e. not global), if your controller has a way to quickly change the keyboard's / global MIDI channel (not familiar with Novation controllers; not sure how easy this would be).
2. Set some of those buttons on that SL to turn on/off record arming or toggle monitor mode for the tracks.
Hope that helps some.
edit: apparently there is a way to do that with Automap on the Novation controllers, or by using the SL as a control surface instead of just a MIDI in. Like I said, little experience with Novation controllers, so not sure how one would go about doing so.
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:38 pm
by bhc303
cool,
cheers brephophagist! will look into this.
Re: new to live, midi keyboard question
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:20 pm
by synnack
bhc303 wrote:I can only play notes on clips while the record armed light is on (button under solo on clip bar)
can I set it up to play without the button armed?
How?
suite 8
novation sl 25 mk1
Thanks in advance!
cheers
Can I ask why? New clips will not be recorded in Session view unless you fire a clip slot on a record enabled track.
So you could just record enable multiple tracks and play at will yet only record on one of them for example.
What is your use case?