Ableton Live Tips w/ Thavius Beck: 'Did You Know' Pt 14 - Essential MIDI + Key Mapping

Dubspot instructor, Ableton Certified Trainer, and electronic musician Thavius Beck returns with a brand-new season of Did You Know? We launched the series back in January, and for eight consecutive Mondays, Thavius shared invaluable production advice, tips, tricks, and techniques and examined some of the less explored and slightly hidden features in Ableton Live. In the latest installment of the series, Thavius shares an extremely helpful tip for performing or DJing with Live; he explains how to create essential key or MIDI mappings in Live.

[wanmomusic]

Broooo I have been truing to find this tutorial by so many different names and I am finally here! Blessings

[SoCalCyclist]

Dope, I didn't know that. Keep the tips coming Thavius.

[DerFantastischeFonz]

the more video's I watch from you, the more I think I don't need a midicontroller. but I need one for tweeking, but launching clips with your keyboard works really fine

[elifan]

Great video, I find it a lot easier to use the arrow keys to scroll up n' down the scenes. And I use P to launch them.

[Ephortless]

Thanks bro love how modular this program is

[benweichiba]

Super helpful Thavius, played live recently without my apc40, and was mouseing around, this would have been way better...

[pmGOdrums]

I never knew what that number box next to the scene up and down meant, thanks. I'd love to see a video about doing a live set. I'm curious about how many tracks you use (if you try to keep to a certain number), if you bounce everything to audio, or keep midi tracks, and roughly how many tunes you need to have ready to feel comfortable.

[astralpirate]

for my own live sets I use 4 tracks like decks (2 A decks, 2 B decks) and assign them to different sides of the crossfader. the tracks have full songs that I've made so I'm essentially djing my own tunes and running them through all kinds of effects. Maybe I'll do a video breaking down my live set (when I'm ready to make a new one... haha!)

[demagogia]

thavius is the best :) thank you!!! :*

[CLDWiR]

They should make a dubspot out in the west coast!
I would love to join dubspot and expand my production skills!
New York is just so far away

[frthleo]

i love your videos,
but i prefer the stuff about more "musical" features like the reverb's re-pitch mode mode
the last ones were kind of "technical"

[Rapu-Santeri]

Soo.. A built-in Novation launchpad. Cool.

[Blackain]

can you tell me if there is a way or a Max 4 Life Plugin that lets me do:
1) assign more than 1 note to a macro? (midi mapping in ableton will only replace it)

2) how i can use 2 notes to TURN ON / OFF something seperately and not toggle (like activating a track for example), coz i cant use my footcontroller with this toggle shit on stage where i dont see what is happening on screen

thanks in advance

[KaziNayeem]

Oh I didn't know! thanks.... open a branch in sydney dubSpot.

[dualik]

can somebody tell me why i can't map more then two functions on my keys? tnx

[VacationurBrainMusicPromotion]

when i midi map the drumrack to my mpd218 and save it as an instrument rack or only as a drumrack. after i close it and open it again all the mapping to my controller are gone ? how can i save them so when i close ableton and open it again i dont have to map my knobs again