Originally Posted by
DJ Froid
I apologize if this has been posted in here already. After a search of these forums, I cannot find the answer I'm looking for and could really use help from some experience tech types.
I've been using Traktor for about 6 months, love it, works great with S4 and X1. Picked up Ableton Live 8 Intro and saw a few people using the X1 to control some of the items in Ableton and how "Easy" it is to midi map. My X1 goes into midi mode (green hotcue) just fine, and I can see the "out" light firing in the NI Controller Editor. The "red box" jumps from knob to button, etc. when they are hit so I know the X1 is outputting just fine.
When I open up Ableton, the X1 shows up in the "Midi/Sync" preferences tab just fine and also appears in the (I/O) drop down menu at the top of the midi/sync screen. When I select the proper drop-downs and assign the X1, I get no midi control or feedback from the indicators in Ableton. The track "on" and remote "on" are selected, the X1 is in Midi Mode and, by all setup info I've seen online, the manual, etc., this thing should be working. I plugged in a friends APC40 to Live and it came up just fine and started controlling all of the volume parameters, sends, etc.
Some where there is a gap between output signal, that I have confirmed the X1 is sending, and the receiving of the midi signal in to Ableton, which I confirmed with the APC40. I'm usually pretty good at figuring this stuff out and am not a total noob when it comes to midi technology, but this one has me perplexed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Gear:
MacBook Pro 2.53Ghz, 4GB RAM
Ableton Live 8 Intro
Akai APC40 (Tested with a friends, worked fine)
Kontrol X1 (Also tested with another friends X1 and had same problem - 2 X1's should be bad)
Have downloaded the latest drivers and updates for all software and hardware.
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