Week 10: Macros

This week was Macros. Pretty straightforward stuff, and definitely something to figure out after doing a lot of other things in Ableton.

A Macro is a UI knob that you can map to any instrument control or effects control in its group.

One reason to do this is that you save on UI space — you don’t have to go into the effects rack and change specific parameters.

Also, you can setup different Macro variations, which are settings for these controls, and activate different settings this way.

Finally, for data-mapping you can create a virtual MIDI control change mapping — this will super-help with my data controls.

The idea here is to create MIDI CC maps to macro knobs and then map the macro knobs to the rack controls. This way you can change individual controls, without ever having to remap the midi values.

Here is the GitHub Repo is link to my weekly explorations.