What am I doing wrong? Ableton not responding to Octatrack MIDI

Elektroholic · 2014-06-01T15:31:55.000Z

Can someone please help with this - I have spent 7 hours today trying to get ableton to accept midi from the Octatrack. I have it so that the Octatrack receives start/stop commands from Live however I can’t get Live to accept any MIDI from the Octatrack?

This is starting to drive me bananas. Please help!

I have tried connecting octatrack through TM-1 and now through Saffire Pro-24 without any success.

MartinL · 2014-06-01T15:46:51.000Z

How much do you know about setting up midi in and out from a DAW? Need to clarify that first mate.

MartinL · 2014-06-01T15:53:34.000Z

Just a thought, when you assign a midi channel to the Octa are you clicking down the encoder to save the channel, you can also do this by pressing the OK button. This needs to be done.

Elektroholic · 2014-06-01T15:54:04.000Z

I would say a reasonable amount. I have another set up where I have managed to have a Virus, MD, A4, MnM and Maschine all hooked up to an iMac in (almost) perfect harmony where I could use the Virus keyboard to control notes on everything else.

The problem is that that setup is in storage at the moment until I finish DIY on the studio and was wanting to play around with some sequenced melodic elements on top of a set of sampled core parts on the Octatrack. I’m using a MacBook running Mavericks (rather than my usual iMac).

In terms of MIDI interfaces I have a a Focusrite Saffire PRO-24 and TM-1.

I have set the Octatrack MIDI up to send on individual channels (double tapping the Playback menu). In terms of specific menus:

Control
Default settings

Sync
Transpore: Recv
Clock: Recv
Progam CH: Null
Ch AUTO: Null
Recv: Null

Channels
AUTO Ch: 11
Trig CH: Default

MIDI Sequencer:
CC Direct Connect: Enabled

Please let me know if you need any further info.

Elektroholic · 2014-06-01T15:57:24.000Z

I think I may have solved this myself lol

I didn’t realise that you had to press Yes to confirm the MIDI channel, which now seems to be sending MIDI to ableton.

MartinL · 2014-06-01T16:06:34.000Z

That is a common issue

Elektroholic · 2014-06-01T23:45:49.000Z

Martin, sorry i didn’t see your second post before replying to the first (or maybe read it subliminally).

It’s all working great now, which has created a new track in the space of about 10 minutes