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Making these Drum Racks is time consuming because you have to name all 128 notes individually.

The note names here can be a useful guide when you’re composing with microtonal scales. Once this routing is set up, you can compose in the piano roll of the Drum Rack track. Then, you must load your instrument on a new MIDI track, and connect the MIDI input of that track to the Drum Rack track (pre FX). The example above shows a 9-note scale using the letters A B C D E F G H J. Create a MIDI clip on that track and make sure that ‘Fold’ is enabled on the piano roll.

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Load up one of my sample Drum Racks ( download here) and add it to an empty MIDI track. Using a Drum Rack, it’s possible to change the note names displayed in the piano roll. My goal: display custom note names for every note on the piano roll! Enter the Drum Rack As an Ableton Live user, I wanted to know what workarounds I could use right NOW in order to make composing microtonal music a little easier. If you’re using a scale with more or less than 12 notes, then the piano roll doesn’t match up with what you hear from the synth. Pad Map2 triggers the next 8 drum pads in a selected bank for Live’s Drum Rack.I’ve written before about how DAWs don’t often allow a custom piano roll designed for microtonal musicians.Pad Map1 triggers the first 8 drum pads in a selected bank for Live’s Drum Rack.Control Instrument parameters for the selected track.Buttons 1-8 arm the first 8 tracks in the project.Faders 1-8 Control volume for the first 8 Mixer channels in the project.Selects the bank of controls for the active instrument.With Preset Mode selected (press the ‘Preset’ button) and the Global Channel set to 16 (see instructions above) the pots, faders, pads and buttons on your Impact LX/LX+ will control the following parameters in Ableton Live (only the Transport functions apply to the Impact GX series):Īctivate/Deactivate loop markers in Arrangement View Now you are ready to Control Live from your Impact LX, LX+ or GX keyboard. Press key ‘C5’ for GX49 or ‘C6’ for GX61 (labeled ‘Enter’).Press key ‘B3’ for GX49 or ‘B4’ for GX61 (labeled ‘2’).Press key ‘A2’ (labeled ‘USB Port Setup’).

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Press ‘Shift/Mute’ + ‘Patch > (Setup)’ on the LX+ series to exit setup mode (again, press ‘Setup’ for the original LX).Press Key ‘C3’ (labeled with a ‘-‘ sign, key ‘C1’ on the LX25) so the display says 0.1.6.If you are using any other Impact controller, skip this step. If you are using an LX25/LX25+, press key ‘C3’ (labeled ‘Enter’).This is the second C key from the far left. Press key ‘C2’ (Global Channel) on Impact LX’s keyboard.Press ‘Shift/Mute’ + ‘Patch > (Setup)’ on the LX+ series (press the ‘Setup’ button on the original Impact LX).

Follow these steps to set the Global MIDI Channel to 16:

Finally we need to make a quick adjustment on your Impact LX controller.

Once you’ve competed the above steps your preferences window in Ableton Live should look like Image 3 (Windows) or Image 4 (OS X).

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Repeat this for control surface slot 2 but for the input choose ‘Impact LX** (Port 2)’ for Windows and ‘Impact LX** (MIDI2)’ on OS X.

Select ‘Impact LX’ (slot 1) from the list of Control Surfaces and set the Input port to ‘Impact LX**’ on Windows and ‘Impact LX** (MIDI1) on OS X.

Open the ‘Preferences’ window in Live and select the ‘Link MIDI’ tab.

Once you have copied the Impact LX folder to the correct directory, launch Ableton Live and do the following:.

Open the folder for the most recent version of Live.

Open the ‘Go” menu, and press ‘Option’.

To access this directory follow these steps: Note: in OSX 10.7 and above, this is a hidden directory.

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Mac OS X: ~/Library/Preference/Ableton/Live/User Remote Scripts (Image 2).

Please follow the instructions on this page: Show hidden files. To access this directory you will need to configure Windows to ‘Show Hidden Files and Folders’ and deactivate ‘Hide Protected Operating System files’.

Windows: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live\Preferences\User Remote Scripts (Image 1).

With Ableton Live closed copy the ‘Impact LX’ folder to the following location:.

Note: Only Live 8.3 and above are supported.