Winter Quadcopter!

A weekend afternoon with no precipitation and temperatures above freezing...

This is only a short clip from a few hours out in Lexington. No major damage from this crash :)

Ableton and the Korg padKONTROL

Prerequisites: Ableton Live 8, Windows 7, Korg padKONTROL, Korg drivers. 

Useful but not required: padKONTROL Editor Librarian.

What you can't see is that on line 1 the Input is padKONTROL 1 PORT A and the output is padKONTROL 1 CTRL.

This setup allows me to assign the MIDI 'keys' like the 16 pads on my padKONTROL to anything on Ableton that I can press or twist when I edit the MIDI Key Map.

If I want to use the padKONTROL as a sampler again, I'll have to delete the MIDI Mappings, but it only takes a few seconds.

If you've got the padKONTROL Editor Librarian, you can create a scene that more aligns with Ableton when using the padKONTROL to manage a drum rack: Starting from the bottom row of pads, left to right, set the pads to C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, A4, B4. C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, B5, C6, D6.

You'll need to make sure to save it to the padKONTROL as a specific scene so that you don't have to re-map the pads when you reboot your computer.