Comments on: DIY: Automap in Ableton Live with Novation Nocturn

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:32:00 +0000

well, sorry for the late answer, but if you're still searching for the answer: you should be able to do this. simply check the cc-values of the encoders on the page you want to control the volume with and put them in the UserConfiguration.txt und the headline [MixerControls]. right now there are a lot of -1 because i did not use that for my script. (i have a nanoKontrol for volume-faders). i hope that helps – cheers, niklas

By: A.e music

A.e music — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:41:38 +0000

Many thanks for this great tutorial and for the config file awesome!!

GReetings from Turkey

By: jonathan harker

jonathan harker — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:16:39 +0000

thanks niklas! but for some reasons only alt+left / right is working and up and down not!? nevermind! i have an additional question: how can i implement a simple mixer function to your script? i want the 8 knobs on the nocturn to control the volume faders of ableton live. that is all i need. is this possible with bankswitching? ( use the pages as banks with 8 volumecontrols in it). i try to get my head around this and have no clue! cheers!

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:28:16 +0000

i'm sorry, but i think this does not work. you cannot split up the channels within one single config-file. never tried, though. if you succeed please let us know how you did it!
thanks for coming by! cheers, nik

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:25:25 +0000

Hello, yes the focus-commands are alt-up and alt-down. you can tell which area of the interface is focused by watching the border. once you are down in your devices you can navigate the blue-hand-focus with the arrow-keys. should work imo…
cheers!

By: jonathan harker

jonathan harker — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:33:13 +0000

hallo! focus up and down doesn´t work for me ! what are the exact shortcuts for these commands? i tried alt+down, but this didn´t work. cheers! alex

By: john

john — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:13:22 +0000

Hello

Can you assist with this if possible. Well let me know if it is possible. I want to have the device controls on channel 2 and the mixer controls on channel 1. So that i can pick either mixer or FX button from the nocturn to determine if i am controlling the fx or the mixer controls. May make more sense if i post my userconfig

# Config File for User-defined Instant Mappings

# We assume that the controls on your MIDI controller
# send CCs (except for pads). All controls that do not have
# an explicit channel setting are expected to use the
# global channel. CCs & Notes are counted from 0-127
# and channels from 0-15.

[Globals]
# The channel that the controller should send on
GlobalChannel: 0
# If your controller is connected via USB, replace ControllerName
# with the name of the respective port. Live will then try to
# recognize the ports for you when you select your Instant-Mappings
InputName: Automap MIDI
OutputName: Automap MIDI
# If your controller has pads that send notes, you can use them to
# play the visible pads in your DrumRacks. Just replace the -1 for
# the note (and channel) of the respective pad. The arrangement of
# the pads in the DrumRacks is as follows:
# 1 2 3 4
# 5 6 7 8
# 9 10 11 12
# 13 14 15 16
# (If you leave the channel of a pad at -1, Live will assume that
# the pad uses the global channel)

[DeviceControls]
# The Encoders will control the device parameters (you can also
# use knobs or sliders). Replace the -1's with the CCs sent by
# the respective controls on your controller. You can also set
# the channel for each controller if it differs from the global
# channel (if you leave the channel of an encoder at -1, Live
# will assume that the encoder uses the global channel).
Encoder1: 0
Encoder2: 1
Encoder3: 2
Encoder4: 3
Encoder5: 4
Encoder6: 5
Encoder7: 6
Encoder8: 7
EncoderChannel1: 1
EncoderChannel2: 1
EncoderChannel3: 1
EncoderChannel4: 1
EncoderChannel5: 1
EncoderChannel6: 1
EncoderChannel7: 1
EncoderChannel8: 1
# Enter the respective map mode for the encoders here. The following
# map modes are available:
# - Absolute
# - Absolute14Bit
# - LinearSignedBit
# - LinearSignedBit2
# - LinearTwoCompliment
# - LinearBinaryOffset
# - AccelSignedBit
# - AccelSignedBit2
# - AccelTwoCompliment
# - AccelBinaryOffset
# Consult the controller's documentation to find out which mode to use.
EncoderMapMode: Absolute
# Buttons used here are expected to not be toggles (i.e., sending
# value 0 every second time you press it).
Bank1Button: -1
Bank2Button: -1
Bank3Button: -1
Bank4Button: -1
Bank5Button: -1
Bank6Button: -1
Bank7Button: -1
Bank8Button: -1
NextBankButton: 8
PrevBankButton: 9
LockButton: -1

[MixerControls]
# Again enter the appropriate CCs for the respective controls.
# If all sliders use the global channel to send their data,
# you can leave the channels at -1. You can, of course, use
# encoders or knobs instead of sliders.
VolumeSlider1: 0
VolumeSlider2: 1
VolumeSlider3: 2
VolumeSlider4: 3
VolumeSlider5: 4
VolumeSlider6: 5
VolumeSlider7: 6
VolumeSlider8: 7
Slider1Channel: 0
Slider2Channel: 0
Slider3Channel: 0
Slider4Channel: 0
Slider5Channel: 0
Slider6Channel: 0
Slider7Channel: 0
Slider8Channel: 0
MasterVolumeSlider: 119
MasterSliderChannel: 0
Send1Knob1: 16
Send1Knob2: 17
Send1Knob3: 18
Send1Knob4: 19
Send1Knob5: 20
Send1Knob6: 21
Send1Knob7: 22
Send1Knob8: 23
Send2Knob1: 32
Send2Knob2: 33
Send2Knob3: 34
Send2Knob4: 35
Send2Knob5: 36
Send2Knob6: 37
Send2Knob7: 38
Send2Knob8: 39
TrackArmButton1: 8
TrackArmButton2: 9
TrackArmButton3: 10
TrackArmButton4: 11
TrackArmButton5: 12
TrackArmButton6: 13
TrackArmButton7: 14
TrackArmButton8: 15
VolumeMapMode: Absolute
SendsMapMode: Absolute

[TransportControls]
# The transport buttons are also expected not to be toggles.
StopButton: -1
PlayButton: -1
RecButton: -1
LoopButton: -1
RwdButton: -1
FfwdButton: -1

so device channel (FX) is sending on channel 2 and mixer channel is sending on channel 1. Well this is what i think it happening but its not working. Any ideas.

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By: Niklas

Niklas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:56:04 +0000

hey! I'm sorry the 8 parameters are a limitation within the remote-scripts. the only thing that could help you out here is a dedicated (python)-script [search the ableton-forums] or max for live.
best luck!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:25:00 +0000

hi. i'm having so many issues with my nocturn but your mapping seems to be the best luck i had, however i have one question. can you or how could i change the script so that the page buttons can be used to control more parameters? at the moment your script only controls 8 paramters. great for instrument racks but sadly not much use for other devices. on my novation remote sl the rotaries perform automap and the buttons on the side can be used to bank accross more parameters in the device. i would lke to achieve this with the nocturn. can you help in anyway? provided your no busy of course… thanks

By: Marc Reck

Marc Reck — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:26:59 +0000

Sorry, should have read can shift focus to the browser, by holding down the browser toggle button, so its showing, clicking the focus up button, and then up-down-left-right to browse

(Fletchermusic should be fletchmusic too

By: Marc Reck

Marc Reck — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:03:31 +0000

You can shift the focus to browser by alt-left and elt-right. How to shift the focus to browser using the nocturn control map stumped me for last hour, but just worked it out thanks to this site and the vid and some random button pressing

As you say it seems you need more keys to get into the browser menu. From the control map posted on the video you mention, you can focus on the browser by holding down the browser toggle button and then using the (assigned) arrow key buttons. Hope that help mate.

Massive thanks to Nicken & to Fletchermusic on youtube for making this happen. Hugely appreciated

By: sebastian

sebastian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:05:51 +0000

thx, could be possible. but it looks like he is just pressing one button for up and one for down focus. if i use the alt-curser combination im must press the button 2 times for focus up or down because there are 3 areas, with browser 4.

if someone have another idea, let me know. thx

By: Nicken

Nicken — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:55:59 +0000

check this out:
http://nckn.de/2009/08/tutorial-automap-in-able...

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12...

By: Nicken

Nicken — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:54:20 +0000

i think you refer to alt-up and alt-down.
with alt and the cursor-keys you can cycle your focus through the different areas of ableton.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:37:36 +0000

@ the cat

i think it is possible, but you have to find someone who can write a phyton script.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:47:35 +0000

he nicken, sorry for the confusion but it was my misstake. first there was the automap hui activated and second thing was that i copy the remoteskript to the folder with all the other pyhton scrips and not the midiremotescript folder in my user libary (i use os x). so now it works fine.
but i have another question. did you have a idea how i could change between the tracks and clips and the racks and clipview. i found no shortcut but there must be a way because i have seen a video on youtube by flechtmusic. and this guy have this option. this is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1As9_wfnQU

would be cool if someone have an idea. thx

By: Nicken

Nicken — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:25:17 +0000

guys, I'm sorry, right at the moment i have no time to test it, i'm not even at home. as soon as i'll have my nocturn again, i'll check it. cheers

By: Nicken

Nicken — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:23:14 +0000

i'm sorry, no. not possible.

By: the Cat

the Cat — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:18:40 +0000

Please, can you programming the Mixer section for 16 Channels?