@garf Push User Mode for custom MIDI mappings information page. Towards the bottom under the encoders section.
There doesn’t seem to be any native support for controlling MIDI Tools with the Push 3 yet so user mode was all I could figure out.
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can someone tell me what is going on here?
I have a 909 kit playing a clap on the 2 and 4
When i record the audio, the first clap is bang on, but every subsequent hit is delayed a bit.
In the video it loops for 1 bar so its 2, 4 (off screen), then loops back to 2.
If i duplicate the track freeze and flatten i get the same thing.
Is it a 1ms delay? If so, it’s expected. Not great but it’s been that way since day one.
You can get around it by making the clap’s release length shorter than the gap between claps (it happens due to voice stealing, which unfortunately always happens in Simpler’s One Shot mode, so best using classic mode or Sampler so the voices can be adjusted, retrig disabled etc)
This delay should really be compensated in freeze/flatten/render, but nothing has changed in around 20 years so I wouldn’t expect anything to change now. Just be aware of voice stealing adding that 1ms delay and work around it if it matters to you. It never bothered me as my music is generally sloppy on timing anyway.
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Oh nice, yeah that fixed it. Wild.
I only noticed cause I was trying to dial in latency comp with some external things.
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Hey, sorry for the noobish question, it’s been a while since I’ve keyboard and moused around in Ableton. But I’ve been checking the Live manual, as well as forums and I cannot figure out how to transpose a Drum Rack’s midi note. It seems like my only options are to go in and pencil in automation, or make a transposed duplicate of the sample?
Your description is a bit unclear, but I’m gonna try a guess here. Do you have fold on, so that you only see midi notes for the populated cells of the drum rack? Other than that I’m not quite sure what you mean by “transposing midi notes”.
No, I don’t have fold turned on.
Have you ever used Maschine? I think that is where I learned to use this feature. In Maschine, when you’re writing in midi notes, you always have the option to transpose up or down on the piano roll, even if that sound is a drum sound.
I get the feeling that I am running into a limitation of the midi clips associated with Drum Rack.
The current beta adds a way to do this with a dedicated pitch bend lane in the mpe editor for drum racks. It’s not as fluid as it is on machine but it’s nice if you don’t need to be super precise.
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If you have something you want to play chromatically from within Drum Rack, select the Chain Button ‘Show/Hide Chain List’, then find the chain you want to play, then drag it to create a new track. (Drum Rack allocates the sounds per pad/note, so you have to go outside of it to play it properly, ala Maschine).
The Maschine way of Pads and Notes (to play the Pad chromatically) isn’t in Ableton, but you can change the pitch of the note in a couple of ways… either within the source plugin itself (Simpler/Sampler, etc), or by hitting the I/O button in Drum Rack and adjusting the ‘Play’ note (next to ‘Receive’).
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What would be neat is a Max for Live device that sits in front of the Drum Rack and toggles a “chromatic” mode. This would translate your keyboard note input to tweak the “transpose” knob on the Simpler in the currently-selected drum pad.
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Dear Ableton gods, I think I may have messed up another setting or something.
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I was able to automate anything I wanted, now I can only automate Ableton Standard plugins. Nothing 3rd party. Not sure why…When I click on let’s say a reverb plugin’s “mix”, nothing happens. nothing is selected.
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In the past, when I clicked on the automation arrow(?), and then any knob, button etc. on the Ableton plugin it used to select and show it automatically. Now I have to do this:
click on automation, go and right click on the thing I want to automate and “show automation”
I am a relatively new Ableton Standard user. Thanks!
Thanks I will check it out tonight.
edit: That was it! thanks!
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Is there a way to assign a specific MIDI CC number to the stock plugins in Ableton? I tried using Map8, but in the version I downloaded, I can’t select a specific MIDI CC number. The only thing I can do is put Ableton in map mode, but since I want to create instrument definitions to control Ableton’s plugins with the Cirklon, I need to be able to map each parameter to specific MIDI CC numbers, and this isn’t possible with MIDI learn.
I found an old YouTube video that shows a way to do it, but it’s quite convoluted, and it’s unthinkable to go through that process for every parameter.
Can anyone give me a tip? I can’t figure out how to do it, but I’m sure there’s a way. 
so you want to have your controller automapped in a custom way to abletons devices?
It’s possible.
The idea is to first build a custom MIDI remote script for your hardware controller where you map your CC’s to the general device controls. Those come in banks of 8 controls.
You can tap into abletons native custom remote scripts or look online for a more dedicated approach.
Each device in Live has a mapping to those device controls.
This structure is best understood by Push’s visualization of those parameters.
In the picture you see bank 2 selected. This bank even has a name “Filter”. Control 1 is Filter Type, Control 2 is Filter Freq.
With your Custom Script you can change banks, but this is not immediate, so for direct control you access only page 1 (main page).
You can stop here, but I think you will find yourself a bit limited by abletons selection of parameters for this page, although they are the most commonly used.
To go further you need to modify this selection of parameters in Live’s file structure. For this you need to find and decompile the respective python file (.pyc) that contains those mappings. I’m not at home, so I don’t remember which one. For decompilation you can use a console script called “decompyle6”, however look for a release that is compatible with the new python version that ableton started using with Live 12.
If decompilation runs successfully, you should see readable code, that you have to modify for each device that you wish to alter. You then have to remove (backup) the original .pyc file and save the new file as .py with the same name, so that Live compiles this at startup.
I did this successfully for my Push 2. I think I added the LFO <-> Pan to simpler, because I missed this from my Digitakt. Also I turned off the white LED’s for notes that are in key, so I don’t get blinded at night anymore.
Good Luck!
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Good lord the new auto-tagging functionality is so good. Just tried it today in conjunction with the sample swap feature built into Simpler and I came up with something so quickly. This will push me to use the samples I have now instead of opening Splice and downloading the 50th version of the same kick I downloaded last week because it’s at the top of the list.
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Is this in 12.1 or already released? I have not used this yet, not sure how either.
That’s in the new beta, and I think it’s turned on by default. There’s a little eye icon(?) up the top of the browser and it highlights blue when it’s on. You can then just select one of the tags and it gives results regardless of whether the files are nested in folders, just appears as one big long list. It makes the browser so much more usable for finding local samples.
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Yep, on by default. Very cool feature.
This 12.1 update sounds very strong with those sample features, plus the drum sampler and personally I am excited about the autotuner. I tune vocal samples a lot and despise Antares, so if this one is decent, that will be another native solution I can use instead of a 3rd party plugin.
My 3rd party plugin usage is dwindling fast in Ableton, more than any other DAW I own.
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