Arturia Spark Ableton Live playback

[mauronedj]

Hi to all!
I'm new to this product! I want to tanks all of you for the forum topic, I've already read most of them!
But I can't answer at my question yet: How can I record all the midi stuff that I'm playng to the spark in vst mode, and how can I than change it in the arranger view in a second moment???
Does this change affect the plugin when I playback the song or I can only record the midi stuff???'
Sorry for my little english,
Tanks,
Mauro.

[mauronedj]

Up!
Please help me with this trouble 

[Kevin]

Hi Mauro,
you have to enable MIDI OUT from Pads in the preferences view. Then create a MIDI track in Live and choose Spark (plugin not the controller) as source.
I will do a tutorial screencast ASAP.

Kevin

[mauronedj]

Ok the pattern and the pad that I press were recorded but what about the autonomation of the parameters? The X-Y and the knob???
Tanks for your time Kevin!

[Kevin]

Hi Mauro,
the the knobs it should be recorded as parameter automations.
I just tried and it seems that it does not record them in Session View but it is working in Arrangement View.
I have to check what's wrong.

Kevin

btw: here is the screencast for recording the pads

[Kevin]

After a little more try and googling it, it seems that it is an Ableton issue. It is only possible to record parameter automation in Arrangement View

[mauronedj]

Tanks Kevin, But there is another question: Can I record the parameter autonomation and the pad autonomation at the same time?
On the manual this is not recommended, but why???

[Kevin]

This is possible but not very easy because you can not record pads on the same track than the parameters. And again you can not do it in Session View.

[mauronedj]

So I must arm 2 track that receiving midi from the spark right?
And what channel do I select for them?
I assume that during the playback I can't send midi to the spark from two separate channel (due to ableton limitations), so that's unuseful.
This product is so complicated!
Many many thanks Kevin, I've increased your karma!

[Kevin]

After having recording the MIDI from pads into the second MIDI track.
You can move the result clip into Spark track, it will be merged with the parameter automation clip.