Arturia KeyStep Pro Keyboard with Advanced Sequencer and Arpeggiator User Manual

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• Be sure to enable the external sync next to the BPM display of your session:

From there, pressing play on the KeyStep Pro will launch playback in Live.

We're done; Ableton is now able to correctly interpret the MIDI control signals arriving from

the KeyStep Pro and we're now ready to make some noise!

• Open Ableton and select 'New Live set' to create an empty set.
• Delete the two default audio tracks by selecting them and clicking 'delete' in the

'Edit' menu.

• Select 'Insert MIDI track' from the 'Create' menu and repeat this one more time to

create two empty MIDI tracks. As an alternative, you can right-click in the empty

track space and insert two MIDI tracks.

• Drag a sound from Category > Sounds to Track 1. Repeat this for Tracks 2 to 4.

You should now have four MIDI tracks, each with its own virtual instrument loaded. There's

nothing to hear yet because we haven't made the connection from the KeyStep Pro to

Ableton. Let's do that now:

• Focus on Ableton track 1 and click on the downward arrow in the 'All ins'

dropdown menu listed below 'MIDI From'.

• Select KeyStep Pro from the listed options.
• Select channel 1 if it is not already selected.
• In the monitor menu directly below, select 'In'.

We've now instructed Ableton to listen to what's happening on MIDI channel 1. If your

KeyStep Pro is in its default state, Track 1 will transmit on MIDI channel 1.

Select Track 1 on the KeyStep Pro and play a note on the keyboard. You should now hear the

virtual instrument you dragged to Ableton track 1.

We'll repeat these steps for Ableton track 2:

• Again select KeyStep Pro as the MIDI source.
• Select MIDI channel 2 as the channel that this track should listen to and play

back.

• Select 'In' to monitor directly what is coming in on this channel.

Repeat this for KeyStep Pro Tracks 3 and 4 and select MIDI channel 3 as the input for

Ableton track 3 and MIDI channel 4 as the input for Ableton track 4.

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