Setup Guide

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MIDI Setup Guide: Controlling Ableton Live

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ConTrollIng ableTon lIve™ sofTware

This chapter includes instructions for using your Line 6 UX2/UX8/KB37 with the Ableton Live

software, including the Ableton Live Lite - Line 6 Edition, which comes included with some Line 6

devices. The special Line 6 Edition of this software offers some pre-deﬁned MIDI controller functions

with your Line 6 hardware. We’ve provided examples here as well for customizing your Line 6 POD

Studio/TonePort controller mappings, using any Live version’s MIDI Map Mode, controlling effects

Plug-In parameters and more. These functions are also available in other popular DAW applications,

and often the procedure is similar for conﬁguring the behavior, therefore, the following tips should be

a useful guide for using your POD Studio or TonePort to control other applications as well! Also see

the following chapter for more speciﬁc instructions on conﬁguring other popular MIDI/DAW software

for use with your Line 6 device.

If you received the Ableton Live Lite - Line 6 Edition with your Line 6 product, you can upgrade to the

latest Live Lite - Line 6 Edition version free at http://www.ableton.com/free-line6-upgrade. If you want

to try the following examples with the latest Ableton Live full version, you can download a free Demo

version at http://www.ableton.com/downloads.

Ableton Live MIDI Input Device Conﬁguration

First, we need to conﬁgure the Ableton Live software to receive MIDI from your Line 6 device. In

Ableton Live, as well as in many other DAW applications, there are separate options for choosing

a MIDI keyboard (such as for playing a software instrument & recording MIDI notes into a MIDI

track) and for choosing a MIDI Controller or Control Surface device (for remote control of software

parameters). The following examples will show us conguring KB37, since it can perform both these

types of MIDI functions, but we’ll note where any settings might differ for UX2 and UX8.

With your UX2/UX8/KB37 device connected to your USB port, launch the Ableton Live software,

and go to:

• Mac

- Ableton Live > Preferences > MIDI/Sync page

• Windows

- Options > Preferences > MIDI/Sync page

Here you will see that Live automatically detects your Line 6 device’s MIDI ports. You might see

additional devices’ MIDI Ports appear here as well, depending what other MIDI hardware/software you

have installed on your computer.

Click the Track

and Remote

buttons both

to On for your

Line 6 device’s

MIDI Input*

Select your Line

6 device here so

that Live will

receive MIDI

Control data

from it