MIDI ROUTING AND RECORDING IN ABLETON LIVE

Whether you’re aware of it, or interested in it or not, MIDI is everywhere in Ableton Live – enabling hardware controllers to take over Live’s mixer, instrument and effect parameters, coordinating timing synchronisation with other hardware and software, sending notes to trigger instrument sounds or loops and providing transport and song-position information. From time to time, it’s good to recap on the ultra-basics of what MIDI is and how to use it inside Live and then to mention a few more interesting techniques, relating to different routing options inside Live’s MIDI tracks and instrument and drum racks. MIDI goes back to 1983 and a great resource if you want to learn more is the MIDI Association website at . Live is limited regarding MIDI in some areas, but these are more than compensated for the ease of use and by the excellent MIDI effect devices which are included in Live – so