Imagine for a second the world's perfect midi controller. It functions
exactly the you want it. It doesn't have the features you don't need but
it has tons of the features you do need. Hey this is Bill Doggett.
Today I want to show you how to control able to live with touch USC. This is
going to light you use your iPad or iPhone to create the perfect mini controller
that suits every need that you have. So let's get started. So I've talked
for years about using touch our seed to control Ableton Live.
You've probably seen a video where I show Ableton changing pages on touch
I see you having different song sections set up. I really really like touch.
See I know there's other iPod apps out there but I'm having a bit of a
nostalgic place in my heart for a touch I see as I've used it for years
so for the sake of this video I'm not going to show you how to do everything.
But essentially I want to show you how to connect Ableton to touch I see
how to map features from touch I see to Ableton and then finally how to
create a template. Just really quickly what a couple buttons on your computer
on your Mac to then sync it to touch ISC to control Ableton.
So let's get started. So first thing I did is download a touch I see it's
a paid app but I think it's only four or five bucks it is worth the purchase
with an app installed. I need to now look at how to connect my Mac and
touch Oh I see so few different ways to make this happen. If you go up
to the upper right hand corner of the screen you're going to see connections.
So I can connect using OSCE hence the name touch I see you could connect
using the touch I see Bridge which is a little help her app you can install
on your Mac that the iPod will connect to but for the sake of this video
I'm going to connect using core MIDI now caught many could be any core
mini device you have connected like I connectivity many for plus play audio 12.
But in this case I'm just going use the built in audio MIDI RTP network
session included on any Mac. We've talked about this many many times before
so I'm going to move pretty quickly but I'm going to do this over wireless
just for the sake of this video. But I would encourage you if you're going
to use this in a live environment. Use a wired connection using a couple
Apple connectors of link to those below. But the best case scenario is
just use a play audio twelve and a mini four plus you get redundant midi
and it's hardwired and your iPod is charged at the same time. So I've got
touch you see open I'm going to go back to my Mac and go to audio MIDI setup.
Can we talk about this many times before something to move quick.
I've got the mini widow shown you can go up here to a window and make sure you
have show MIDI studio shown. If you're on Maha they click I believe it's
a globe icon in this box here to show that or you can go up to the menu
options to get there. Talked about this a lot before so I've went to a
couple of videos where I mentioned it before but really quickly for the
sake it today I've got my session created in my directory I see my iPod
now as long as you touch us the open on your iPod you're on the same Wi-Fi
network or wired plugged into a hub network switch whatever it is then
you should see your iPod if you don't see it show up there in the directory
see there Firewire or it's connected to a different network so save that
for another video try to work that out with your local I.T.
professional professional to get that to shop. I see my iPad. Here's all I do I hit
Will's iPod which is the name of my iPod.
Clever Name. Hit connect and it's connected. Most important thing here
make sure who may connect to me is set to anyone. If you've never used before.
Watch some of the videos I've linked to below in the description. OK so
I've connected Ableton to my iPod so now in touch I see I'm going to go
into the core mini section here. And for some reason your iPod doesn't
connect to the network session you might just want to double check that
the core Mini is enabled I believe by default it's enabled though.
And then here because I have on song on my iPod and previously open that's
showing up both in the inputs and outputs I'm just going to disable that
because I don't need it and then I'm not going to use the input.
I'm not going to send MIDI from Ableton into touch I see just from touch
I see enabled then someone to disable the input there. And now of this
I think I'm good to go. So I want to go back out one step and then I want
to go to layout for the sake of just getting this started and showing you
how to map from touch see into able to live. I'm just going to select the
simple out here and in a moment we'll talk about creating your own layout
and loading that into touch. So I've got simple loaded. Let's go back and
then let's hit. Done. And I'm going to go over to just this drum pad section
here over and touch a seat.
So now in ableton I'm going to go to my preferences command comma.
We're gonna go to the link MIDI tab now because I'm using this iPod to remotely
control able to live. I need to make sure that on the input for this MITI
connection that I have remote enabled so because I'm using networks session
one no go here to the input section and it says networks session one I
have track enabled which means this can send me two tracks in ableton I'm
going to disable that for now and then I have remote enabled that's all
I need selected which again means I can use this device to remotely control Ableton.
So with that selected I think we're good to go. Now I've got a file and
arrangement view opened up here. There's no content but I have four locators.
So on essentially map these first four buttons here to my first four songs
in my set. So to do this I want to hit command and when I click on my first
locator and then I'm going to do is press this drum pad. Now if everything's
connected properly if I have remote enabled on the input from my network
session then you're going to see some value pop up on that first locator
and I can open up my browser and you can see my mini mappings browser and
you can see the different mappings you can see no see one MIDI channel
one is mapped to locator 1.
So let's go through and do the other ones here. So hit two and then we're
gonna hit two there you see that maps. OK. So let's do three and then four.
So I'm going to press command in and let's close our browser up and if
we did this properly then what I'm gonna do is when I select a song so
let's say song for it's gonna jump to that place in the arrangement that
location and their agent you see it did not make this even easier.
Let's go back in the command. I'm going to delete my mapping supply and stop
and then I'm gonna click my play button in Ableton and let's just assign
play to this bottom pad here and then stop to that pad. So now I can choose
some one two three or four and you can see it's jumping to that place and
the arrangement that you can press play to start Ableton is playback or
I can press stop to stop it.
So you see it's super easy just using the simple layout to assign pads
here to things enables lives. Same thing is true for faders. So let's go
over to our faders here it lets you command them. Let's just click our
Fader For this volume and move this fader. And now you see that as we move
this it's going to adjust over in touch with C. So this is just using the
built in default simple layout incredibly easy to have things have them
sync and map them and able to live however you want to again creating the
perfect mini controller.
But let's take it a step further what if you don't need all these faders
and you just need a block of drum pads. Again the beauty of using an iPod
writing touch O.S. is you can truly create the perfect midi controller.
The way we're gonna do this is use the touch ISC editor app available for Mac.
So I'm going to go ahead and open this guy up now for some reason the app
doesn't immediately start. You might get an error message that says you
have to have a Java installed on your computer doesn't mean you need to
take a trip down to Starbucks to get this to work. There's gonna be a link
there just click it and download the Java runtime whatever the heck that
means in order to install Java to get the app to open.
So in the editor and again we're not going to go fully in-depth here but
I'm just gonna go and select iPad Pro because that's what I'm using here
I could decide if I want this to work for vertical orientation or landscape
and I choose the vertical because that's the way my iPod is currently set.
And then let's just right click in this block area here which just represents
my screen and I could change the zoom level let's make this a little smaller
so you guys can see kind of the full there that's the full iPod. So this
is going to represent what I see over here.
So I'm just going to right click and I'm going to add a push button. OK.
So we're going to add one for song one and then let's just say like this
and let's add a couple others so I get a copy and then paste just clicking
it doing command C then command V and I drag command see me in the and
I paste and you could see this is not looking very great. I can make these
bigger if I wanted to play and stop but again perfect mini controller fits
your exact needs. So I just have a couple of buttons arbitrarily placed
here it's not fantastic it's not great but it's going to work.
So now let's go to our first button here. I want to go to Miltie and I
want to enable this to be a mini value and I want to make it a midi note
so I could choose the channel I can choose the exact meaning I want and velocity.
So I want to start with C minus 2 which is my first known Ableton.
Then we'll go to our next pad here. Same thing notes and we're just gonna go
up 1 C sharp minus two. I'm gonna go here again to value. We're going to
see notes. I'm gonna go up to and then we'll do the same thing for our
remaining controls Okay great so I have my template.
Again it doesn't look pretty but it's gonna just work for us raw or trying
to do. I've laid out the the individual buttons that I want I've assigned
what many know what channel what velocity I want them to be. So the next
day I need to do is send them to my iPod now because I've connected these
two on the same network.
I'm good to go they're on the same Wi-Fi network. Some in a press sync here.
The other thing I could do is save this and add a name to this which I
probably should do for now it's just going to be untitled one and I'm gonna
press in the upper right hand corner of the iPod go to my settings and
go to layout and then press add. Now what you'll see here says found hosts
from Studio Stage Two. I'm going to click that and it's going to automatically
download that template. Now if you've done this before and again you have
it named it which you should name it and save it. You'll get a message
here that says existing label on untitled one will be over it and continue.
Yes that's very often find someone a hit. OK. And now I'm gonna go through
and select a label untitled one which is what we just created a hit stop
sync over on my computer. Let's go back into Ableton on my computer side
and a press tab to get us back to a range of you. And let's hit. Done.
Now I could see on the I thought I had exactly what I created on my computer
on the iPod something to go through the same process of mapping these controls.
I mean do you command him then I want to delete everything on that previously
so there's no conflicts. Well it's like locator one.
We'll press our first button here you see it maps button to the maps button
3 it maps and then button 4 is going to map and then we're going to click
the play button and map that stop button and map that. So now again remotely
without being connected to my computer via a cable which you should for
live performance but I'm doing this all wirelessly I can select a song
press play it's going to start Ableton playback I can press stop let's
go to song 3 and press play so using able to live in touch OSCE you can
create the perfect midi controller that suits your needs exactly the way
you want it.
So to learn more about how to use Ableton like and touch your to create
the perfect mini controller then headed from Studio Stage dot.com where
you can actually check out our controlling able to live to touch on a c
course right go way more in-depth than I did here show you how to use able
to lie to change pages on touch Oh I see how to map song sections to touch
I see and so so much more
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able to lie with touch policy of course. So thanks so much for watching
this you guys. I will see you next week. Take care. Bye bye