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Hi all

I need some advice on macro mapping in a drum rack

So I have a drum rack with different samples on each pad. And I have the ability to use the macro buttons to control 8 of the parameters.


Now the thing is this. In effect I have 16 simplers / samplers on chains in my chain list

I would like to assign macros globally to parameters (e.g. attack, sustain, etc), in the whole list. So that all the simplers / samplers are affected

But I seem to hit a wall

If I select a particular pad, I can go to the simpler/sampler in that pad's chain, and macro map the parameters there, but it does not affect any of the others. And those macro controls are now exclusively assigned to that pad's samper

If I go to the chain list and select all the pads, I seem to lose access to the samplers. The moment I press shift and select more than one chain, the attached devices disappear. I cannot get them to appear

The only thing I can think of to do is to map each parameter to the first chain, and then to link all the devices below in a chain to the first one (e.g. ve Attack to ve Attack to ve Attac)

Which is 8 x 16 = 128 separate bits of macro mapping to do

Is there a short cut?

Hi, i'm not sure it will work for you, but when i need to do heavy mapping to macro knobs, i usually create drum rack than put empty simpler/sampler/whatever on one of the cels then i do all mapping on it after just copy cell as many times as needed. Important thing is that you have to drop your samples directly to the device drop area not to drum cells, otherwise it will reload cell with empty simpler.

That sounds like a good idea. So would Live take care of the routing from cell to sampler? I would not end up with one cell triggering all the samples? I will try it.

Yea, live just copy all the macro knob mappings with the cell, but some times i like to select bunch of samples and drop them to multi-cells simultaneously which just doesn't work that way. So, if you'll find another solution please share.

I will. At the moment I am more or less reconciled to searching for and dropping samples individually - as you say, that's what I will have to do to keep the macro mappings.

quiet_ou wrote: If I select a particular pad, I can go to the simpler/sampler in that pad's chain, and macro map the parameters there, but it does not affect any of the others. And those macro controls are now exclusively assigned to that pad's samper

Actually, you should be able to successively map, say, the "attack" knob from each of your samplers to a single macro knob. Click your first sampler, click the "attack" knob, control-click and map it to Macro 1. Now move to your next sampler, repeat the process. Your Macro 1 should now control "attack" for both your samplers. Repeat as needed.

sounddevisor wrote: Repeat as needed

quiet_ou wrote:8 x 16 = 128 separate bits of macro mapping to do

Yep that was quite a bit of mouse clicking on a hot summer afternoon!.

But I now have it set up & will midi map the lot to my MPD32 tonight. Should be fun

Yeah, I missed the "8 x 16 = 128 separate bits of macro mapping to do" part, sorry!

Oh, well, at least once it's set up you can save it and re-use it as a template.

right click 'map to siblings'

JuanSOLO wrote:right click 'map to siblings'

Where? If I right click in Map mode, no such option appears...

[edit - and in the Live Manual, the word siblings does not appear once...]

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=178731

http://www.abletonop.com/2012/04/huge-a ... g-mapping/

OK, so if I'd known this it would have saved me a lot of work !

What's an amazing tip!!! Thank you so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TO3z8LtP5U

Hope this helps?