Re: Any experienced Ableton users able to give me a hand?

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

Ah, I don't know about that but I thought live was good about midi
learn.  I've seen people do pretty amazing things with Live and a midi
keyboard... I'm using a Novation Remote SL 25 so all that's taken care
of.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> At 4:59 PM -0700 6/4/09, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mech <mech3@m3ch.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Before going any further, go to the I/O section of the new MIDI Track.
>>>  There's a trick here we need to implement.  You see, Ableton doesn't
>>>  implement internal MIDI routing, but we can get around that by using a
>>
>>  > Loopback.
>>
>> It doesn't?  I route MIDI between plug ins all the time.
>
> Er, to Ableton's internal functions...?
>
> Sorry.  You're right.  If you're sending data directly to an AU/VST which
> responds to MIDI, then you don't have to go through this step.
>
> More often, I'm trying to control things within Ableton itself (faders,
> send/return levels, etc.) and you do this loopback trick to route MIDI
> control directly to Live's parameters.
>
> Unless you've come across another way around this I haven't figured out 
>yet?
>
> Thanks for the amendment.
>
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