From the course: Ableton Live 11 Essential Training: The Basics

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Key mapping

Key mapping

- It's tiring to always use a mouse to adjust device parameters or trigger clips and scenes in live. Now you can use mini controllers to do this, but if you don't own a controller yet, you can use your computer keyboard through lives key mapping mode. So I've got exercise one from chapter 11, if you want to follow along. And I'll start by giving you a warning in that, if the computer mini keyboard function is active, and we can do that by clicking on the button here in the control bar, or by using our letter M key to enable or disable that. But if this function is enabled, the mappings involved will overwrite anything that we do in key mapping mode. If you're going to be using key mapping, you'll want to make sure that the computer mini keyboard function is disabled when you're not using it. All right, to set up key mappings is rather easy. All we need to do is activate key mapping mode by clicking on the button here…

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