#Apple mainstage ableton live how to#
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I was pretty determined that Ableton was the best solution, but the more I look at it and the more I work with it I don't see it being so stage friendly. I am guessing there is a way and if there is I would appreciate any suggestions. But this doesn't seem possible with different songs at varying tempos. If I could just have the songs in Session view and click play on the right to start a song I could live with it. If I needed to just start a song I could see myself struggling to locate it. I guess at the end of the day I am looking at so much stuff happening on the screen I can see myself getting overwhelmed very easily onstage. I am pretty sure there is a way around this and I have spent hours and hours working.

I seem to be forced into playing everything from arrangement view, as when I go to session view I am tied to the Master tempo. I just want to import a midi file with varying tempos and have Ableton play these varying tempos back so the midi program changes happen at the right point. I have spent a bit of time with it and I am prepared to spend more but I keep running into the same roadblocks. It seems like it can do everything except something relatively simple like what I need it to do. I have really tried to get my head around this program. Is there a plugin sequencer I could purchase to do this? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. However Apple in its infinite wisdom decided to not include a simple midi sequencer to enable someone to send program changes and midi messages to external equipment such as lights. For example it would select a new drum set for an e drummer.

#Apple mainstage ableton live software#

I like the idea that you can just select a song and it will open up with a handy mixer and rearrange software instruments.

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I use a Macbook pro for playback and would like your seasoned opinions if you can find the time to make it through this post. My dilemma is that the playback tracks change tempo frequently and makes a relatively simple task become more complicated. I need something pretty simple to playback tracks and send simple midi program and light changes. I am at a pretty big crossroads of which software to go with so here is what I would like to do. This setting allows Ableton Live to receive MIDI mapping data from other sources.First of all apologies in advance if this post ends up being long winded. Next, navigate to Ableton Live’s MIDI preferences, and activate the Remote switch for the “TO ABLETON LIVE” MIDI input. You’ll get access to the MainStage template used in this tutorial and other exclusive content! If you don’t want to go through the trouble of creating a template, click here to support me on Patreon. This is what the external instrument channel strip should look like.

#Apple mainstage ableton live Patch#

Next, create a patch with an external instrument channel strip with the following settings. After these channel strips are set up, all we have to do is click on MainStage’s on-screen keyboard to send MIDI note data to Ableton Live. To do this, we’ll use external instrument channel strips with the correct MIDI port and channel assignments.

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Next, we have to create a MainStage template to send MIDI data to Ableton Live via the “TO ABLETON LIVE” IAC Driver port. Next, double click on the IAC Driver icon.Ĭlick on the checkbox next to “Device is online,” and then create a new port by clicking on the arrow next to “Add and Remove Ports,” You can name the port whatever you want, but I named mine “TO ABLETON LIVE,” Create a MainStage Template Press ?2 to bring up the MIDI Studio window. To access the IAC Driver settings, navigate to ~/Applications/Utilities, and open up the Audio MIDI Setup application. It enables you to route MIDI data between software applications without the need for a physical loopback through a hardware MIDI interface. MacOS ships with a handy virtual MIDI device called the IAC Driver. To accomplish this, we’ll be using Apple MainStage’s external instrument channel strips to communicate with Ableton Live via MacOS’s built-in MIDI IAC Driver.

#Apple mainstage ableton live how to#

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make MIDI mappings in Ableton Live without a hardware MIDI keyboard controller.