Controlling Ableton Device Knobs with a Launchpad X

Controlling Ableton Device Knobs with a Launchpad X

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Summary

I was working on my workflow and wanted to add the ability to turn knobs from my launchpad X. I have my M-Audio Hammer88 Pro next to me and was wanting to play around with the knobs. I wanted to just turn the knobs with my darn Launchpad X, and figured I’d try to set that up. I found a reddit post that covered it, so I’ll share my experience here.

Create Custom Mode

Access https://components.novationmusic.com/launchpad-x/custom-modes and create a New Custom mode. This custom mode contains 8 Vertical Unipolar Faders. It should look something like this:

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I set my MIDI Channel to 2 for each Fader and used CC 7-14. This is just incase I was using Channel 1 for anything else.

You can download a copy of this custom mode here.

8Faders.syx0.2KB

Create Control Surface Script

I will include what I did and what worked for me, if you are following along you may need to tweak things here.

  • Open up "C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 11.1.6\Preferences\User Remote Scripts\”
  • Create a Folder in this directory. Name the folder after what you want the device to be named. I am going to use the name LPXDevices

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  • Copy (not move) the UserConfiguration.txt into that folder
  • Set the GlobalChannel to the MIDI channel that you selected. I chose Channel 2
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  • Next, map the Encoder to the CC number that you selected earlier. I went with 7-14.
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Now, save the file or just download the one my copy.

UserConfiguration.txt8.3KB

Ableton MIDI Setup

The last thing to do is to setup the device in Ableton MIDI prefences.

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LPXDevices will be the name of the folder that was created earlier.

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