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Hiya, I just had a quick question about Ableton Live and controllers. I currently have a midi keyboard and a pad control that I am trying to assign to two different tracks. How do I do this? ( I wanted to have a kind of jam session with a friend). Anyone know how to accomplish this?

I am not a Live user, but with most DAW's, you simply assign each track a different midi channel, then make sure each controller is assigned to those channels.

You havent said what kind of interface they both use. USB or 5pin MIDI?

Assuming that you can plug them both in at the same time then you need to select them to work with ableton. To do this open ableton, and select, option->preferences->MIDI then set "track" on for each input device you want.

Then you need to look at both controlers and select what MIDI channel you want them to run on and set them to something you know (each device, a different channel). If they are both USB then you dont realy need to do this step, only if them are both connected by 5pin MIDI.

If they are both USB then just create 2 midi tracks and set "Input From" to each controler.

If they are Daisy chained on 5pin MIDI, then set "Input From" to the name of your midi input (probably what your soundcard is called) and select the channel you set for each device earlier.

Hope that helps you some way

Pondmuk wrote:Hiya, I just had a quick question about Ableton Live and controllers. I currently have a midi keyboard and a pad control that I am trying to assign to two different tracks. How do I do this? ( I wanted to have a kind of jam session with a friend). Anyone know how to accomplish this?

You spelled 'n00b' wrong.

Thanks a lot you two for the speedy responses! And suck it tekmosis!

Pondmuk wrote:Thanks a lot you two for the speedy responses! And suck it tekmosis!

to arm more then one track you can always hold down 'ctrl' while you 'arm' the two tracks you want to play...but- the pad and the keys will both activate for both tracks, so use the aforementioned method above. I've found both to be useful though.