[PD] controlling ableton with pd via midi

Lucas Cordiviola lucarda27 at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 25 07:17:30 CET 2020


In my setup I use a Virtual loopback MIDI named "loopMIDI". Here's a 
screenshot :

ablmidi

Note that the "Remote" button must be "On" for your "virtual-driver".


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On 3/25/2020 2:53 AM, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
>> Since I don't have external controllers, I imagine that one can use 
>> the "midi map" function in Ableton to assign any [ctlout] message as 
>> one would with a midi controller. However, I cannot seem to 
>> accomplish this.
>
> Hi Fede,
>
> Mostly all parameters that you change with the mouse in Ableton Live 
> can be assigned to a MIDI Controller. Just right-click on any knob and 
> select "Edit MIDI map". Then just send some [ctlout] from Pd and that 
> controller (say midichannel 1 controller 1) will be auto-mapped to 
> that Ableton knob. You can also use other Pd MIDI out objects as well.
>
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>
> On 3/25/2020 12:17 AM, Fede Camara Halac wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to control Ableton Live 10 Intro with Pd 0.50.2 on macos.
>>
>> On Pd I set the Midi Devices "IAC Driver IAC Bus 1" as input and "2" 
>> as output. On Ableton I set "ADVANCE" as "Control Surface" with "IAC 
>> Driver IAC Bus 2" as input and "1" as output.
>>
>> So far, [noteout] works as expected, but [ctlout] only works when an 
>> instrument/effect is focused on Ableton, and assigning values is not 
>> consistent since every Ableton effect/instrument has a different setup.
>>
>> Since I don't have external controllers, I imagine that one can use 
>> the "midi map" function in Ableton to assign any [ctlout] message as 
>> one would with a midi controller. However, I cannot seem to 
>> accomplish this.
>>
>> I have been using [midiin] to check within Pd the values that 
>> correspond to knobs and other stuff in Ableton, but there seems to be 
>> only a limited amount of things I have access to from Pd (e.g. I 
>> cannot change focus from Pd)
>>
>> Has anyone tried any of this? Are there any other solutions for 
>> controlling Ableton with Pd? Is midi the right way to go?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> fdch
>>
>>
>> fdch.github.io
>>
>>
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