Ableton Live Tutorial- How to use a MIDI Keyboard 

This video was really helpful. I got an mpk249 recently and was a bit lost on how to map it until now. thank you!

Hugely helpful for this beginner! Thanks man!

very helpful! Still deciding between my MPK261 and buying a Push 2 to control Ableton. Your explainations were very valuable for me.

more of this please, this video really helped me!! subscribed immediately and hope you're doing more ableton and mpk 249 tutorials

Thank you very much for this, Very clean how you put the midi in view along w/ Ableton. very Helpful.

So good!!! Thanks, I just picked up the MPK249 today and was wondering how to best configure it to work with Ableton for our Worship services.

Love the incorporation of different types of footage.

Updating my museum quality equipment from the 90's. I have a Alesis v49, have actually worked everything out but have 2 keys sticking together in every octave ( d and e flat). I would welcome your suggestion. Great video!

Greetings from locust, NC neighbor!

Brilliant. Thank you. I understand a lot better now.

thank you this was an amazing tutorial!!

Your video saved me from losing my mind haha. I could not get my MIDI mapped to saved my life until I found you video, ANND it helped you had the same exact model. Definitely subscribed and looking forward to future videos.

Can you make videos of how to use the pads? As well as plug ins? Awesome vid. Helped me so much

I cannot wait to do my first midi recording!

Hi Jacob. amazing and useful video ! is there a tip to put the fader all the way up on the controller but reaching 0db on ableton? regards

Think I've got it now. Great tutorial.

Thank you so much for your help brother!

Can you show us how we can write chords in the arrangement view ?

I got midi cable to go from my keyboard to interface, should i have just done usb straight to computer, is there a benefit going to my interface

very good. Thanks!!

thank you so much for making this video, you did a great job

helpful as .... nice job

Thanks for video!

Hi can we asset the "touchpad" buttons to switch between the instruments ?

Really helpful explanation thank you

I've been having trouble assigning a drum setting to the pads and synth to the keys so that both can be triggered and looped in Live session? Can you do a tutorial on this?

Hi Jacob. I just want to say thank you. This video is very informative and helped me a lot.

Hi Jacob Great course With my Midi keyboard connected and track is armed - when i press Midi on ableton, the drum pads in the drum rack are not highlighted for some reason. Other parameters in the drum rack are highlighted though. So, I cannot seem to map any of the ableton drum pads to my MIDI. Can you please help

Well done. Thanks :) PS good bass n beats :P

Thanks

whow that intro music sounds awesome!

Hey so, I'm using a Midi Keyboard (mine is an m-audio keystation 49), i have plugin's i like for it, (basic one is mini grand), but when i record with it, how do i set it to record the changes to notes that my sustain pedal makes? It seems like the midi channel just records the notes as they are hit even though the monitor reflects the sustain.

Thank you for the video. I have a Korg Pa600, PC Laptop, Ableton live 12 lite. I hooked up the keyboard by USB to the laptop. But Ableton did not see the Keyboard as MIDI. How can I do it?

great tutorial.I am new to midi keyboard and would like to know everything.Where do I start please.Also want to incorporate midi into our church worship.

Hello is their a way to connect my Roland A-49 and play those samples I put in my Drum Rack individual with my keyboard🎹? Grtz

Thank you 🙏

Amen brother I’m from Cape Carteret aka Carteret county. Keep the videos up and praise the almighty there is great freedom with the lord and he truly is the only way to be set free. God is love

kinda late but could you assign each pad on an akai mini to pads that are in a drum rack on Ableton..?

Do you need a specific edition of abelton to connect your midi keyboard ?

Cool just bought this set up but my controller isn’t being read for some reason

So I plugged in my Akai MPK device and it working but the sound is kinda low. is there a way to make it louder?

so, i have a subzero commandkey25 plugged into my laptop, ableton identifies it, track and remote enabled, but the keyboard of the computer is still what ableton is using, no sounds from midi controller

greetings from Statesville nice to find someone in my area clicked subscribe thanks for the tutorial

Legend!

Isnt it better to hook your keyboard into an audio interface then your computer? If so how do you hook up a midi keyboard controller that only has a USB jack to an audio interface?

Nice tutorial. But after all do you have to save a template for Ableton? Your mapping settings will reset if you don't do that?

For some reason when I go to preferences my midi keyboard doesn’t even show up but it says it’s on but ableton won’t connect

all i'm getting is audio from this video showing in my ableton channel strip. But no midi signal even showing on ableton top right midi signal indicator. Also, when I go to choose which to check in track/sync/remote/MPE (Live 11) the first instance for my keystation 49 mk3 is in red lettering. Also, under the choices for devices, I only need to select midi ins as it's just a note input, and pitch/octave I need it for. However, I am giving two choices for input (and output if needed) which are kaystation 49 mk3, and for keystation mk3 port 2. What do I do hear? The keystation has previously worked with this laptop with both usb connectors i have for it. And I don;t even particularly remember doing any setup to speak of. This time around I'm pulling my hair off and looking for a HIGH CLIFF!

Help with M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 Mk3 in Ableton 10.0.3 I recently picked this up used, does anybody know if this works in Ableton 10? When I go into preferences, it shows up in input, output and the midi port for both input and output. However, I can't seem to find it in control surface. If anybody has any tips on how to get this working to play my plugins I would really appreciate it. I've never used it midi before so there is a good chance I'm doing something very basic wrong.

Jacob, i have an old Krog Triton Le, can i use it as midi on ableton? do i need something else to make it work? Thanks

The Midi isn't reading. Not sure what else I can try and would truly appreciate advice. It isn't blinking in the midi channel or top right corner; I have been looking for videos but everything I find simply says that they can't help in that video. lol I found my device on the control surfaces but don't know how to get it to come through

Wait, how do I let the actual keyboard give out sound through the Ableton disk?

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I did everything like you but it didn’t work please help me!

hi. alesis vi25 to ableton tutorial please. thank you

Thank you! This was so helpful. I am having trouble actually hearing sound when I press a key on my MPK mini, even though it is plugged in, and Live is open... Any thoughts? I will also do some research...

I'm not seeing that there is an Live button to click for the settings you're talking about. I'm on Ableton Lite. Is that different?

Ableton and MPK 249 tutorials, please.

MPK 49 only shows in control surface

Hi Jacob, this was so useful. Thank you very much. Question: do the custom midi mappings remain when everything has been switched off or does it have to be redone each time?

This isn't working for me. My faders are not responding even though midi keyboard is synced? I can assign an instrument to the keys but the faders are not responding as in this video and I can't seem to assign anything to the pads?

Can I use my digital piano from Yamaha as a midi keyboard? It has in and out midi ports. I don’t necessarily want to record piano, but for example drum lines. Thank you!

Sound off below in the comments if you have any questions at all about using your MIDI controller in Ableton! 🔥

When you hooked your Akai MPK 249, what type of USB cable did you use?

I have the same computer as yours

Ableton doesn't seem to recognize my Roland JV-30. Is there some setting I need to do in Ableton so it can be recognized? Let me know. Thanks. By the way, your video is good.

This video is great! I don't know why this video has so much dislikes ;;;

It all made sense but how to get low latency while playing a midi keyboard?

Was hoping you would explain how to make sound play in Ableton from my midi device but you never did that. lol. sigh.

This was a big help - BTW, I am an OVERSTREET too. Our clan came from Virginia - we are currently in South Carolina USA

I have the exact same keyboard and it isn’t appearing in the preferences on ableton live 10, don’t suppose you know why this could be?

one of the best tutorials on RU-vid thank you so much!

Praise Jesus! God bless you and your ministry's my brother 🙌🙏

i cant get anything to work. connected keylab49 to laptop turned on midi controller in abelton still cant get this crap to work :-(

Awesome lesson.. mine still doesn't receive midi messages tho

I was expecting to see how to input notes with the controller into the Abelton software, and not so much time spent with 'minor' features.

Hey I wanted to know if you could help me out on learning how to use Ableton im new to all of this and I want to learn how to use Ableton

Praise JEEZUS!!!!

You lost me at preferences about 3 minutes in. Where tf is this live button

Was he on fl studio

Man, I bought ableton and midi keyboard, I wanted to learn how to enter my notes to abelton and edit them, I still dont know how to use a MIDI keyboard

This didn’t help. I’m having some trouble with my Akai MPD218 setup

I've never recorded in midi. I just learned after a year my interface was only for audio. 😆😅🤣😂

Thanks...only thing i needed to do first, is to turn off the idiot mode on my Set up...😊❤🎉

Video is helpful but, to be honest I would have never bought an AKAI MPK261 if I knew it was going to be this difficult. I thought the whole point of a synth is to screw around with it, experiment with it and then eventually get the hang of it and figure it out. None of that is happening for me. This thins will not even work. All it does is light up that it, no sounds, not able to play it nothing.

for those as impatient as me... skip to 3:00

OK now what about how to actually use the keyboard

yeah, BUT HOW DO YOU FUCKING PLAY IT

Too much talk, create a sound with d midi damn

Waaaaaaaaaay too long intro. Maybe make a separate video about your church activities or at least time stamp where the tutorial starts please.

Thanks