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Title: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: gumbo23 on May 11, 2017, 08:33:26 pm
Are there any good walkthroughs on how to get drum rack set up with BSP? Video would be ideal. I had a quick look and couldn't find anything.

Thanks
Title: Re: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: gumbo23 on May 12, 2017, 08:25:11 pm
No? Nothing?
Title: Re: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: gumbo23 on May 12, 2017, 11:25:55 pm
Still nothing?

Moderators? Anyone?
Title: Re: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: megamarkd on May 13, 2017, 04:18:13 am
I don't use computers for music.  I have in the past but hated it.  That said I did an Internet search and found a simple step-by-step (https://ask.audio/articles/layering-drum-sounds-with-drum-racks-in-ableton-live (https://ask.audio/articles/layering-drum-sounds-with-drum-racks-in-ableton-live)) which showed me that in Drum Racks the user assigns an instrument in the Drum rack to a MIDI note once the rack is placed on a MIDI track (which will have a MIDI channel assigned to it).
So with this knowledge I can suggest that you create your rack in Ableton Live.  Now using MCC, program a user drum map to match the MIDI notes you assigned your drums to in Live and set your drum sequencer to the same channel as the rack in Live.
Title: Re: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: gumbo23 on May 13, 2017, 04:41:46 pm
It seems there are no guides to setting this up, so I'll make an appeal to Arturia to do a video walkthrough on this. I can't give any more time trying to figure it out, so please help those of us in this situation. Many thanks
Title: Re: How to set up BSP with Ableton Drum Rack?
Post by: megamarkd on May 15, 2017, 09:49:18 am
It's more Ableton's job, as they are the ones who's software you are trying to work.  The BSP just needs to be plugged into the computer via USB and the drum sequencer assigned the same MIDI channel as Drum Racks is on.  If you want to run the BSP as the master clock, set the sync slider to Internal.  If you want Live to be the master clock, set it to USB (and do a search here for instructions on that side of things).