Axiom Pro 49 (White version) - changing Drum Rack pad locati

[Moo10]

I've scoured the internet and looked at every video and forum out there for answers but I can't find one specifically for the white Axiom Pro 49 (a lot of the videos out there are for the black Axiom Pro which has a slightly different interface).

I've hooked my AP 49 up to Ableton perfectly - everything works, including the sliders, knobs, pads, and yes, I have used the pads for Impulse, and it works great.

What the problem is is that in Drum Rack the AP's drum pads are an octave too high, thus they don't trigger anything -- I can't find a way to change this parameter. Normally there would be a way to lower the MIDI note on the AP to match the MIDI Drum Rack note (I've done this a billion times on my V-Drum brain, for example...hit a v-drum pad and lower the MIDI note on the v-drum brain till it matches the Drum Rack note).

Any help out there would be appreciated. I guess I could move each Drum Rack instrument up an octave manually but that would take hours upon hours.

Thanks.

[Winterpark]

perhaps try the midi pitch FX before the drum rack?

[ObtuseMoose]

Yes, it's possible. Unfortunately, you can only change the notes the pads send with HyperControl in "transport" mode, meaning you give up all the nice automatic mapping that HyperControl usually does. From http://forums.m-audio.com/showthread.ph ... in-Ableton,

With HyperControl mode set for normal (the default setting), the controls are hard wired and can't be changed; the MIDI settings assigned by the preset will have no effect. If you press Edit and 0 to toggle HyperControl mode to transport, only the transport buttons will be mapped and all other controls will be sending the MIDI messages as defined by the current memory preset.

With HyperControl, the pads are mapped to Impulse, if you toggle to Transport mode and load memory preset 19, the pads will be mapped to the default octave of the Drum Rack, and you'll have 2 profiles, 1-8 and 9-16 you can access from the soft buttons. You can reprogram the MIDI notes for the pads or create additional profiles to access more drum cells.

I've confirmed that this works on my white AP49.

Hope this helps.

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Moose

[Larry Dollaz]

You could also try moving the samples in drum rack up an octave. Dragging a pad to the overview on the left makes the process pretty quick and intuitive.

[Moo10]

Thanks for the replies, guys. Moose, I think you're right on that. I'll have to try out the Toggle mode and use that when I want to utilize the drum racks and then switch back when I'm doing other stuff. When you press Edit and 0 to toggle HyperControl mode to transport, do you press Edit and 0 to get back to Hypercontrol mode?