LPD8 & Ableton - How To Get LED Feedback & Control Surface Automapping

By popular demand, a video explaining how I MIDI wrangled my LPD8!

FILES YOU NEED FOR THIS TO WORK:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mwgcmgz...


On Windows Vista/Windows 7, put the "Akai LPD8" folder here:

[Windows boot drive]\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 8.04 [or your version]\Preferences\User Remote Scripts

(Yours may be in Local rather than Roaming, depending on whether you installed Live for all users. On XP, the path is similar, but in your boot drives Documents and Settings.)


On Mac, put the "Akai LPD8" folder here:

\[your user name]\Library\Preferences\Ableton\Live 8.04 [or your version]\User Remote Scripts

Note that on the Mac, in similar fashion to the Remote/Roaming difference on Windows, you may need either the Library folder at the root level of your boot drive or the Library folder inside your user folder (the one you see when you click Home, Documents, etc.).

above referenced from http://tr.im/HLt3

As for the LPD8 Editor preset files, you can put these anywhere, load them from the editor software using the Load dialogue, hit "Commit - Upload" for each preset (repeat load, commit, for each preset 1-4), which point they are stored on the actual LPD8 and can be deleted/moved on your computer.

Please note that preset 2 is the one used in this tutorial, so be sure to switch to it once you've loaded all the files, and before you try to do anything in Ableton.

The other presets are my personal ones for use with Serato, etc. Preset 4 simply takes the entire top row of controls (pads and knobs) and flips them with the bottom row.

PLEASE NOTE: You must be in NOTE mode on the LPD8 for this all to work, not CC mode!

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