Key Mapping and Midi Mapping in Ableton Live with Loudon Stearns

In this free online music production tutorial, Berklee College of Music associate professor and Berklee Online course author and instructor Loudon Stearns gives a step-by-step instruction on the key mapping process using Ableton Live.

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About Loudon Stearns
Loudon Stearns is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, a course author and instructor at Berklee Online, and an active media-artist. Within the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music he prepares students to work as independent composers and producers in a technology-laden music industry. Online, he focuses on the latest electronic music styles and music-technology innovations, showing students how to analyze contemporary styles and use the latest music technology in their own works. An innovator in both education and art, Loudon authored a Massive Open Online Class, "Introduction to Music Production," that has provided high-quality free eduction to hundreds of thousands of students, received an award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association for "Excellence in Teaching" and received the "Excellence in Media Art" award from the Emerson College Visual and Media Art department.

Holding a Bachelors of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production and Bass Performance from Berklee College of Music, and a Master of Fine Arts in Media Art from Emerson College, Loudon pulls from a broad range of skills in the creation of his own multi-media performances that include live music, projection-mapping, dance, visual art and interactivity. Of particular interest is using the entire world as a performance space by using internet streaming to coordinate numerous performers and audiences on vastly different parts of the globe. The technical and aesthetic challenges of this type of performance are new and exciting and require the sort of broad skill-set that Loudon has developed through his extensive institutional and self education in music, sound, performance, motion graphics, photography, programming, and construction.

[anotherytnameyk]

that switchine effects mapping is sick!! how havent i thought of that ??

[pocojoyo]

Thanks for the really helpful tutorial. Can you do one on MIDI mapping ?

[allancerf]

loudon hi!  2 things - t is not a good key an ableton guy told me to use on tap tempo as t has a separate function embeded.  MY QUESTION: how do i map a SLICE a midi slice so that i can trigger it with say the letter 'g?'  thanks.

[jamesoneist]

is the interface you're using (Nuendo, Cubase, Live..) ;)

[WezuArts]

I'd like to slow mo the song and key it so it goest fast again, how do I do that?

[judsonadair]

I am confused. I don't think this is what I am looking for. I would like to map the drums to some usable keys. I really hate the layout the come in. For example, I want to set the kick as "F" and the snare as "D" and the high hat as "J." Anyone have any idea how to do that?