basic setting control surface apc40 ableton

In Isadora click the trigger input of the Send Control actor.

You can utilize the power of Ableton sessions by sending MIDI commands from Isadora to Ableton Live.

In the following example, I am using an Ableton Live demo set called APC40 Demo which has seven tracks and five scenes setup in Ableton Lives sessions view.

Ableton Live 10 Studio is shown below, but the same method works with Ableton Live Lite, Ableton Live, and Ableton Live Studio.

These buttons can be mapped to MIDI messages received by Ableton from Isadora.

Setup Virtual MIDI Ports One thing that needs to be done before you can send any MIDI between applications running on the same machine is to ensure you have a Virtual Midi Port available.

Isadora makes this very easy on Apple computers, but there are a few additional steps for Windows users.

Please review the article on Using Virtual MIDI Ports before continuing.

Setup Ableton Live to Receive MIDI Once you open Ableton Live (or the Ableton Set you wish to control from Isadora) you will need to open the Preferences dialog, found under the Options menu in Windows, and the Live menu on Mac.

By default, the new MIDI Port will be setup for Track control.

This means that for example, a tracks piano roll will receive any incoming midi message.

This is not what we need to control the Live session playback.

We need to change the input settings for the new virtual MIDI Port to include Remote and deactivate Track.

Default settings.

Remote MIDI input activated for Isadora Virtual Port.

Once the Remote input is activated you can close the preferences dialog.

Send MIDI Change Control Messages From Isadora The first thing to do in Isadora is to set the MIDI output port which needs to be used.

PC: In the Midi Setup dialog set, the output port for Port 1 to the virtual port created Mac: In the Midi Setup dialog set, the output port for Port 1 to the supplied virtual output port Isadora Virtual Out.

Next, we need to add a Send Control actor to the scene editor in Isadora.

The default settings of this actor will be what we will use for mapping to the play control of the Ableton Live session Scene 1.

When we click the trigger input of the Send Control actor, Isadora will now send a MIDI Control Change message out of the new virtual port and Ableton will receive it.

Midi Mapping in Ableton Now that Isadora is setup to send MIDI Control Change messages, Ableton needs to be told what each message will be connected to.

Click the MIDI button located toward the right edge of the top bar of Ableton.

This will change the look of Ableton, by adding a colored overlay over any elements that can be linked to incoming Midi messages, and will open a MIDI Mappings panel on the left side.

Next click on the element to be connected to the next midi message.

After clicking on the Scene 1 button, the button will be highlighted.

Basic Setting Control Surface Apc40 Ableton