If you are using a 2 octave keyboard like the Arturia, you only have 25 keys. There are 16 MIDI channels, and in this situation I like to think of them as sample banks. Remember that you can use different MIDI channels to playback samples with the same key as well. Now play your keyboard, making sure that all of the samples are correctly mapped. When you are done mapping, click the MIDI button on the top right again to exit MIDI Mapping Mode. Note that you can map multiple samples to be triggered simultaneously with the same key. Repeat this step until you have mapped all the samples you wish to perform on your MIDI controller. In our example, we mapped Note C2 on MIDI channel 1 to trigger the clip, hence the 1/C2. When you do this, a small box specifying the MIDI Channel/Note will appear on the sample clip, and the mapping will appear in the MIDI Mappings box on the left. On our computer they are shown in blue.Ĭlick the sample to select it and press the key on your MIDI controller which you would like to use to trigger your sample.
The color that it is highlighted may vary depending on how you have your color scheme set. A box that says “MIDI Mappings” should open on the left side of the screen, and all of the MIDI-mappable parameters available to you will be highlighted. Click this box to enter MIDI Mapping Mode. Step 7:Īt the top right corner of the Ableton screen, you should see a small box that says MIDI. If you are using a Novation Launchpad and would like to jump to the step where we start talking about that, skip ahead to Step 10.įirst, plug the controller in via USB cable. Let’s start with the Arturia Minilab, a keyboard-style controller. The techniques shown with these two controllers should translate to most other commonly encountered MIDI controllers, so no worries if you’re using something other than these two. We have two commonly used controllers here to demonstrate.
Now you need to set up a way to trigger the sample with a MIDI controller. Note: The audio track will automatically set itself to be the same name of the audio sample you first drop onto it, but you can change this by clicking on the name of the audio track and pressing Command+R to rename.
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