Reply to Novation Remote Zero SL & Ableton Live 8

Hi Guys,

I have been pointed here and told you guys know your stuff and may be able to help me out.

I am not a total newbie with Ableton, I have been producing on it for about a year or so now but have recently looking into the possibility of DJing with it too, moving from CDJs.

With how I had planned working with it in my head I saw the layout of the Novation Remote Zero SL and it seemed to fit quite well. I assumed (wrongly) that it would behave like other controllers I have had in that I would simply be able to Plug it in, get Ableton to recognise it and then spend a bit of time assigning the various controls within Ableton to my preference.

However, it does not seem to be that simple. I am not that fussed about using Automap at all at the moment.

Essentially I want to assign the buttons below the faders (2 rows of to start and stop clips. I am able to click on the midi learn button within Ableton and select the function, and it does register. However it doesn't actually work.

I believe the issue is the internal templates conflicting..... I have gone into the menu of the controller and changed the properties of the button to:


** first page **
Control = CC
DispType = ON/OFF

** second page ** (u can acess the second page using the upper left scroll buttons)
BtnType = Toggle

As this was suggested, but this hasn't helped....

Thanks guys