Ableton
Live
Lite
Setup
First, connect Keystation 88 to an available USB port on your computer using the supplied USB cable,
and
launch
Ableton
Live
Lite
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Next, open the Ableton
Live Lite Preferences
This will be dependent
upon the audio interface that you are using.
MAC:
Select
Live
> Preferences
PC: Select Options
> Preferences
Select
the MIDI / Sync
tab. Within
3
Next to Input:
Keystation
Next to Output:
Keystation
4
Close
the Preferences
window.
To
add
an
instrument
5.
in the Categories
column, choose Instruments
6.
In the Name column iust to the riaht of the Cateaories
choice.
Click-and-draq
the instrument
The Instrument can now be triggered with Keystation 88
Pro Tools I First M-Audio Edition Setup
Connect Keystation
88 to an available USB port on your computer
launch Pro Tools I First M-Audio Edition
Open or Create a Project
2
Select
the
Setup
pulldown
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Keystation 88 by clicking the box next to the Keystation 88.
4
Select the Setup pulldown menu and open Playback Engine. Choose your audio device from the
Playback
Engine
pulldown menu.
To create a new Instrument track, select the Track pulldown menu and select New.
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In the New pulldown menu, select Stereo, and then Instrument
6.
In the newly created
track, add an Insert to your track by clicking in your track's
7.
selecting Multichannel
Plugin
Xpand!2 (Stereo). The plugin can now be triggered with Keystation 88.
Note: Windows users will need either an external soundcard (such as the M-Track 2X2) or a low-latency
AS O driver.
Features
o
Panel
Keyboard
Most of the white keys and black keys on the Keystation are labeled with names. When in the Advanced
menu, pressing any of the labeled keys will allow for special operations
transposing,
and sending program change messages
Octave
Buttons
If you press the octave "+" button once, the LED above the octave
keyboard's octave is now shifted up. If you press the octave "+" key again, you will shift one more octave up,
and so on. It is possible to shift the keyboard up 3 octaves or down 3 octaves from Ooctave shift
To shift the octave down, press the octave "-" button and notice that the LED above the octave "+" turns off. If
only the LED above the octave "
"+" key is lit, the octave is shifted up. The octave "+" and octave " " LEDs will change color when moving up
or down
more
than
one
octave
To retum the octave shift to O, press both the octave "+" and " " keys together.
that the octave
shift has returned
window.
Choose your Audio
the MIDI
Ports
section,
88, toqqle the On button in the Track and Remote columns
88, toggle the On button in the Track and Remote columns
or
plugin
to
Ableton
Live
or Plug-ins.
column, locate the Instrument
to a MIDl track in Ableton
menu
and
open
MIDl Input
> Instrument
and select the instrument you would like to use, such as
key is lit, the octave is shifted down and, if only the LED above the octave
to O
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M-AUDIO
Device in the Audio tab
adjust
the settinas
as seen below:
Lite
in
order
to
generate
or Pluq-in of your
Live Lite to load the instrument
using the supplied
USB cable, and
Devices.
Enable
MIDl
Input
Track.
Inserts A-E and
such as adjusting
the MIDl channel,
" button will turn off, indicating
Both LEDs will light, indicating
sound,
from
the
the