Korg nanoPad + Live BeatRepeater tutorial
Quick tutorial to show how to configure the nanoPad to drive a BeatRepeater in Ableton Live.
First set up the nanoPad.
Open the Korg Kontrol Editor, select a Scene and set up all the buttons to have the same CC, behavior set to Momentary and Off value to 0. Then set the On value for the first button to 1 and for each button set the On value to be the value of the previous button + 10. For example:
Pad 1 – 1
Pad 2 – 10
Pad 3 – 20
…
and so on. What we’re doing here is to treat the buttons as a quantized knob. Save the scene data set if you want ( backups are good ), then write it to your nanoPad with “Communication/Write Scene Data”. Let’s setup Live.
Open Live. In “Preferences/MIDI Sync” ensure you have the “Remote” button set to ON for the Input of Korg nanoPad. Put a BeatRepeater on a Track and set:
- Chance: 0%
- Gate: 1 Bar
- Mix type: Ins
Start the MIDI mapping, assign the buttons to “Grid” and “Repeat”. For added fun assign “Decay” to an axis of the X/Y pad or to a knob you have around. Then set up the ranges as follow:
Exit from MIDI Map mode and have fun!
December 10, 2009 at 6:06 pm
..fighissimo.. ma fare anche uno screencast? no?
Così da vedere in tempo reale sia la configurazione che il live.. =P
February 5, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Thanks! Very helpful!
February 28, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Hey dude, looks like you’re doing some funky shit, but I think there’s an easier way to set up the nanopad.
Say you have your pads set to notes across an octave (C1 – B1), you can just go into midi map mode, click the knob you wanna control, then hold down the first and the last note buttons and it gives you that quantized knob function.
But you also have to set a separate button for repeat on/off.
So I think your idea’s got mine!
February 28, 2010 at 10:54 pm
The solution with notes is faster, of course! But as you said you’ll have to setup a different button somewhere else for the on/off switch: this way the control lacks a bit of immediacy for my needs.
Another dirty ( but cool ) solution is using many repeaters on the same track and mapping each repeat’s button on each pad. This way you can achieve multiple simultaneous looping, which means for example you can sample at 1/4, keep the button pressed and press the 1/8 button. Then as long as you keep the 1/4 button pressed it will continue to loop, even if you release the 1/8 button!
Many choices are possible, that’s the cool thing about Live!
February 20, 2011 at 12:38 pm
had alot of fun with the first way. thanks alot for the tutorial. for the multiple simultaneous looping, do you midi map the grid the same way or just the repeat button? trying to get this way to work better. i know it will be cool if its coming from you.
February 20, 2011 at 6:00 pm
if you want simultaneous looping you just need to map each repeat button and then staticly select the grid value for each beat repeater. This way you can also choose which value you want to map to each button in a more precise way!
March 18, 2010 at 2:57 am
Just did the mapping and had some fun for hours ˆˆ… great stuff mate…. thanks for the tutorial… really god explanation and functionality =D… good job..