07-17-2020, 02:01 PM
Ok, thanks everybody. Went to the Ableton forums and somebody called TLW replied and said;
"Not a device I own, but as I understand it the NDLR basically works in the same way as most hardware sequencers capable of sending different outputs on different MIDI channels.
So in Live’s MIDI preferences set up all of its inputs in the “inputs” section, with “track”=on.
In the “output” preferences you need it switched on and set to receive MIDI clock (to sync it to Live).
Set each of the NDLR’s outputs to a different MIDI channel (e.g. 1, 2, 3 and 4).
To capture the MIDI in Live and to route it to a hardware (or software) synth set up 4 MIDI tracks. The input to each should be the NDLR with the MIDI channels set to 1, 2, 3, and 4 (one channel per track, obviously). Set the MIDI track outputs to the target hardware synth with the MIDI channel set to the MIDI channel the synth is set to. That setup should result in Live acting as a MIDI splitter plus have the ability to record what the NDLR sends on each channel.
To hear the MIDI from the tracks you need to set the track monitoring button to “on” or, if the track is record-armed, “auto” will also work. To play back already recorded stuff on a Live MIDI track set the monitoring to “auto”.
I can’t be sure but I think that will work, at least it does with my sequencers."
And it works perfectly! So, if anybody else has issues with NDLR / Ableton / USB, then this will probably work for you too.
Now to spend some time with my NDLR :-)
"Not a device I own, but as I understand it the NDLR basically works in the same way as most hardware sequencers capable of sending different outputs on different MIDI channels.
So in Live’s MIDI preferences set up all of its inputs in the “inputs” section, with “track”=on.
In the “output” preferences you need it switched on and set to receive MIDI clock (to sync it to Live).
Set each of the NDLR’s outputs to a different MIDI channel (e.g. 1, 2, 3 and 4).
To capture the MIDI in Live and to route it to a hardware (or software) synth set up 4 MIDI tracks. The input to each should be the NDLR with the MIDI channels set to 1, 2, 3, and 4 (one channel per track, obviously). Set the MIDI track outputs to the target hardware synth with the MIDI channel set to the MIDI channel the synth is set to. That setup should result in Live acting as a MIDI splitter plus have the ability to record what the NDLR sends on each channel.
To hear the MIDI from the tracks you need to set the track monitoring button to “on” or, if the track is record-armed, “auto” will also work. To play back already recorded stuff on a Live MIDI track set the monitoring to “auto”.
I can’t be sure but I think that will work, at least it does with my sequencers."
And it works perfectly! So, if anybody else has issues with NDLR / Ableton / USB, then this will probably work for you too.
Now to spend some time with my NDLR :-)