Tutorial: How to setup & use the Axiom with Live/Impulse

Newecho · Post by **Newecho** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:33 pm

I spent quite a bit of time putting together this article on setting up and using the Axiom with Live and Impulse. This article goes beyond the lesson provided by Ableton by offering printable program mapping reference, illustrations, and usage examples.

The article is here - http://newecho.typepad.com/blog/2007/05 ... _the_.html

Enjoy!

Mark

Goran@Irrupt · Post by **Goran@Irrupt** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:01 pm

WOW! great article. thanks for sharing this with us!
two bad that three pads on my Axiom suddenly stopped responding at all.
and that happened after three months of non-extensive usage. lame

thanks again.

w

Newecho · Post by **Newecho** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:15 pm

WebSite! wrote:WOW! great article. thanks for sharing this with us!
two bad that three pads on my Axiom suddenly stopped responding at all.
and that happened after three months of non-extensive usage. lame
thanks again.

w

Thanks! I just checked here http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=company.warranty and found that the warranty should be for 1 year. Perhaps they can turn it around quickly.

synnack · Post by **synnack** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:06 pm

Thanks for the great tutorial.

However it does bring up something...

Why would i sit there pressing left left left left left left, loop - to get to and trigger a clip, when i could have just clicked on it to begin with?

Seems like using the mouse and computer keyboard is way more efficient than anything on the Axiom.

Newecho · Post by **Newecho** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:28 pm

tempus3r wrote:Thanks for the great tutorial.

However it does bring up something...

Why would i sit there pressing left left left left left left, loop - to get to and trigger a clip, when i could have just clicked on it to begin with?

Seems like using the mouse and computer keyboard is way more efficient than anything on the Axiom.

The point of illustrating control surface navigation was to show what it is possible. Whether one decides to go that route is a matter of personal preference.

I personally don't like mousing all that much when doing music. Getting used to navigating with a control surface withouth having to reach for mouse can be great especially in performance. I agree if a nav move would take 20 button pushes, the mouse would be the way to go. But I can hit ">>+>>+>>+Loop" pretty damn fast without having to look where I'm pointing.

In a related note, I'm also a big fan of mapping trigger finger pads to transport/nav/clips etc - especially for recording on the fly.

Mark

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:15 pm

Thanks for this - I own the Axiom 25 so I will definitely check this out tonight.

90% of the time I just use it for beating the fuck out of the drum pads...

vertigo · Post by **vertigo** » Tue May 29, 2007 11:55 pm

This is cool, but I cant get it to work right with my axiom 49 . When I change the global channel my faders still control faders 1-8, I would like one bank to have buttons assgined to mutes, and another bank arm record, the only thing that is actually working is changing between impule control and clip launch.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:05 am

Nice work and thanks!

QuantumFizz · Post by **QuantumFizz** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:37 pm

This is outstanding, thanks for putting this together. Getting my Axiom to work properly with Ableton has been not as straight forward as I'd hoped it would be.

dinaiz · Post by **dinaiz** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:49 pm

Newecho wrote:I spent quite a bit of time putting together this article on setting up and using the Axiom with Live and Impulse. This article goes beyond the lesson provided by Ableton by offering printable program mapping reference, illustrations, and usage examples.

The article is here - http://newecho.typepad.com/blog/2007/05 ... _the_.html

Enjoy!

Mark

Great article man ! I learn so many things with it !
However, I still got a problem :

You say that with all the programs, the pads are configured to launch the clips on the current scene, and it doesn't work with my Axiom 61. Is there something special to do ?

I used the dump button on the midi controlers setup page in Live. I also downloaded the lesson but for some reason it seems it's not working. Any ideas ? Regards
D.

Tutorial: How to setup & use the Axiom with Live/Impulse

Tutorial: How to setup & use the Axiom with Live/Impulse

Warranty is for 1 year

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