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12.3. EXTERNAL MIDI IN/OUT 154

You can congure which MIDI devices are made available to Live using the Active Devices

section in the MIDI Preferences. This section lists all available input and output MIDI

devices. For Live's tracks to receive/send MIDI from/to a specic MIDI device, make sure

the corresponding switch in the Track column is set to On. You can use any number of

MIDI devices for track MIDI input/output; the mixer's In/Out section allows you to individually

address them.

12.3.2 Playing MIDI With the Computer Keyboard

The computer keyboard can be used as a pseudo-device for generating MIDI notes from

computer keyboard strokes. Using this pseudo-device, you can generate MIDI even without

a real MIDI input device. To turn the computer MIDI keyboard on, use the Control

Bar's Computer MIDI Keyboard button, or the

Ctrl

(PC) /

(Mac)

shortcut to the Options menu entry.

Activating the Computer

MIDI Keyboard.

The center row of letter keys on the keyboard will play notes corresponding to the white keys

on a piano, beginning on the left with the note C5. The black keys on a piano correspond to

the upper row of computer keys. The four leftmost letters on the lower row of the keyboard

are used to transpose the note range and to set velocity. The results of changing these

values are displayed in the Status Bar at the bottom of the Live screen.

As it happens, when the computer keyboard is set to send notes between C3 and C4, the

keys are mapped to MIDI notes such that the center row of the keyboard (ASDF...) addresses

the Impulse percussion sampler's sample slots. This means that you can play and record

drum patterns right off the computer keyboard.

Note that when the computer MIDI keyboard is activated, it will steal keys that may have

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