Ableton Forum

Hi, I spent a long time last night reading posts about this, managed to download the drivers, of course that didin't work, as per another long and helpful post on here, I went into device manager, updated the driver and got Ableton recognising the Oxygen, I could set MIDI controls but couldn't get the oxygen to trigger the onboard sounds ( say Synth ) which is the main reason that I bought the keyboard. This was mu first problem and main reason for starting this post.

I now have truned my laptop back on to make the post, checking ableton again, it no longer recognises the Oxygen!! I havent done anything other than shut down and 8 hours later restarted! With the Motu 828 I use Ableton learnt about it once and picks it up when ever I tell it to... whay not he oxygen.

Last night, I could use the oxygen as a MIDI controler, but couldn't get it to trigger the onbaord synths. I had the prefs sorted

Oxygen 8 as control surface - if i remember right the input was USB keyboard - and the output was my lap tops sound card ( microsoft GS wavwtable synth ). I armed a MIDI channel and loaded a sound module ( bombardier bass ), could set MIDI controls on anything I wanted in live but couldn't trigger the sounds when recording in MIDI - no MIDI signal was regestering either.


So in isolation my questions are :

1/ Why doesnt Ableton recognise the oxyegn again, what do I have to do to keep them talking to each other ?

2/ When I have got the oxygen and Ableton talking, how do I set it up so I can trigger the MIDI instruments from the Keyboard.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Don

Don Don wrote:Hi, I spent a long time last night reading posts about this, managed to download the drivers, of course that didin't work, as per another long and helpful post on here, I went into device manager, updated the driver and got Ableton recognising the Oxygen, I could set MIDI controls but couldn't get the oxygen to trigger the onboard sounds ( say Synth ) which is the main reason that I bought the keyboard. This was mu first problem and main reason for starting this post.

I now have truned my laptop back on to make the post, checking ableton again, it no longer recognises the Oxygen!! I havent done anything other than shut down and 8 hours later restarted! With the Motu 828 I use Ableton learnt about it once and picks it up when ever I tell it to... whay not he oxygen.

Last night, I could use the oxygen as a MIDI controler, but couldn't get it to trigger the onbaord synths. I had the prefs sorted

Oxygen 8 as control surface - if i remember right the input was USB keyboard - and the output was my lap tops sound card ( microsoft GS wavwtable synth ). I armed a MIDI channel and loaded a sound module ( bombardier bass ), could set MIDI controls on anything I wanted in live but couldn't trigger the sounds when recording in MIDI - no MIDI signal was regestering either.


So in isolation my questions are :

1/ Why doesnt Ableton recognise the oxyegn again, what do I have to do to keep them talking to each other ?

2/ When I have got the oxygen and Ableton talking, how do I set it up so I can trigger the MIDI instruments from the Keyboard.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Don

Typically as soon as I sent this post I now have everything working. In my case I found that in device manager in vista when you go to update the driver there is a device called keyboard, like an idiot I immediately asumed that this was what i wanted ! Not the keyboard for the laptop, so update that, by a freak of modern science it allowed the oxgyen to work.

After updating the driver for USB M audio USB Keystation it now all works. I have yet to shut down and see if its still there,,,

Feeling a bit stupid but happy as a pig in s... as its all working now..

Sorry,

Don