by djnarrative | 5 Apr, 2014 | Reckorder Tutorials
This has been really useful to me a couple of times so i thought id post it up here for ease of finding and in case anyone else is looking for the quick answer. To get the Pad Kontrol to play the Drum Racks on Scene 1 - Factory reset (if scene 1 has been configured since) and In Preference > Midi Sync tab choose "PadKontrol" as the control surface. Then for input port choose port 2. "Midi in 2 (PadKONTROL)". and Midi 1 for the output Under midi ports turn track "On" for port 2: "PadKONTROL Input ("Midi in 2 (PadKONTROL). More info on this ableton...
by djnarrative | 20 Dec, 2012 | The Reckorder Project
Today i took some time out to learn the pad Kontrol & finger drumming techniques. As mentioned in a previous post i use 128's in drum rack, but i wanted to somehow switch to a new template and create / save custom kits, instead of building them up each time. After a lot of reading and trial and error i've come up with a mixture of the two and also found some awesome finger drumming tutorials which I'll post in the next blog. The pad Kontrol is pretty straightforward with a nice response on the pads, and the creator of the aforementioned Lpc series, Stray, has put up a nice overview tutorial here, which also highlights a real nice method for creating custom kits. And another here which has a cool way of assigning the rotary controls. Til now ive just used scene one, which is automatically set to whatever the drum rack square is focus on. But i wanted to merge the method Stray uses in the 1st video with my existing Ill Gates 128's method. After a while I found that i have to forgo using scene one to automap to ableton's drum rack square as you have to select pad kontrol as a surface for this, and for some reason it sends out strange notes as a result. So I decided to map each of the 128 drum rack pads from bottom to top to scene 1 to 8 (C-1 to G9) To achieve my previous setup of using my 128s , Scene 9 is mapped to the default drum rack position which allows me to use...
