From the course: Ableton Live 11 Essential Training: The Basics
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MIDI mapping - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live 11 Essential Training: The Basics
MIDI mapping
- [Instructor] In the last video we saw how key mapping is used to set up your computer keyboard to work as a controller. Let's move on and take a look at how you can use MIDI map mode to map controls of parameters to MIDI controller. So I've got exercise two from chapter 11 open, and I'm going to start by giving you a warning again, and that is, we need to make sure our midi preferences are set up correctly for this controller mapping to work. So let's go up to the Live menu, that would be the Options menu on a PC, and let's open up Preferences and select your link temple MIDI tab. Now let's go down in the MIDI ports area, and I'll just point out again that if you want to be able to remotely control device parameters via your MIDI controller, the related remote check box here needs to be enabled for that to work. So I'm using a novation SL mark three today, and so I've got that one enabled. We can hit our Esc key to…
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