NDLR Distorted recording of soft synth in Ableton

[Jesse Johannesen]

Ok, so in the midi settings of Ableton live do I select all the NDLR Midi ins and outs (1, 2, 3, 4) or just 1 midi in & out and change the midi channels of each hard & soft synth accordingly?

Still seems quite confusing in a DAW soft/hard multi synth set up.

I’m getting some interesting Drone & Pad sequences but it’s all still quite random at the moment.

Hey sorry for the delay, I missed your reply. NDLR has multiple USB MIDI Ports but it is only necessary to use one with ableton I believe. So you could set up motif 1 to channel 2 USB1 and it will be sent to NDLR 1 in the DAW on channel 2. Each MIDI Port has 16 channels so that's more than enough to send all parts on one Port. The purpose of the extras is that some stand alone soft synths don't do well with sharing a MIDI Port so it was a pretty easy thing to add more Ports in the software to accommodate that.
To get a bit more control of the patterns, start out by making the pattern short and even numbered in length. Set the Clock Div to an even number and then try expanding from that. To start exploring the modulation menu a good place to start is sending an triangle lfo to the pad and adjust the modulation amount and range to your liking, (be sure to have the pad playing a sound with a long attack so the notes fade in slowly.)  
Let me know if you have anymore questions,
Jesse