From the course: Ableton Live 10 Essential Training
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Computer keyboard as MIDI controller - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live 10 Essential Training
Computer keyboard as MIDI controller
- [Narrator] At times, you may want to record some of your ideas but not have a midi keyboard available. Let's take a look at how you can use your computer keyboard as a midi keyboard. I've already got a drum pattern programmed on this first track so let's add a bass part. So I'm going to go into the Sounds category and the Bass sub-category and I'm going to load this Acid Bass preset by clicking and dragging it onto the second midi track. Now once it's there, track is record enabled, I want to be able to trigger that and hear what it sounds like. To do that, I need to go up here and enable this button that looks like a piano. Now we can do that by clicking it or with Abelton 10, there's now a shortcut and that is the M key. By default, by the way, this is now Off in Ableton 10. Okay, so with that enabled, I need to know how the computer keyboard is laid out to be able to trigger pitches. So on the row of your computer keyboard, starts with the letter A, Ableton has mapped it to the…
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