Jamstix & Ableton Live

guild_12 · Post by **guild_12** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:00 am

Jamstix is getting the message to play...because the status window of jamstix is saying that it received the message to play 'Intro' or 'Verse'...it just isn't switching loops.

Instead of doing a lot of unnecessary trouble shooting...let me rephrase the issue.

How do I set up ableton live so when I change a scene...it switches the liveloop being played?

bharris_22 · Post by **bharris_22** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:44 am

Hi Everyone,

I just installed Ableton Live 9 Suite, and am having trouble getting Jamstix 4 set up properly. I would like to have Jamstix drive drums in Kontakt in Arrangement view. Can someone please direct me to one of the posts in this thread, or elsewhere, that explains the settings I need in Jamstix and Ableton to have this happen? I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

sonicviz · Post by **sonicviz** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:57 am

Same as in session view. You need to have Jamstix on one track, with midi out enabled in the options. Then on another track you have your Kontakt drummer, and select midi in from Jamstix. Need to set input on.

I sometimes use that setup to create a really big drum sound with both playing at the same time.

bharris_22 · Post by **bharris_22** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:09 am

Thanks for the quick reply!

I think that there is an issue with the way I have midi out set up on the Jamstix track. I generated a song and press play on the Ableton transport. I see the midi out within the Jamstix GUI blinking green as the data is generated, but there is no indication within Ableton that the midi is going out of that track or into the Kontakt track. In other words, the "MIDI" at the top right of the window doesn't blink, and the little green meter next to Jamstix in the device area seems to have no activity (and, of course, there is no sound yet

). Any idea what setting within Jamstix, or more likely the Ableton track that Jamstix is on, that I need to change to get the midi to move between the tracks?

Thanks again!

sonicviz · Post by **sonicviz** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:10 am

You need to enable midi out in the Jamstix settings.

RTFM

Ableton Live is pretty logical. You can direct midi from one track to another or you can set the other track to receive midi from another track. Either way works, but you need to enable midi out on Jamstix, as well as make sure your Kontakt instrument is also receiving.

You can also check with the inbuilt Max4Live midi message display devices o see things are being output input.

bharris_22 · Post by **bharris_22** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:12 am

Just fixed it. FYI, I had midi out enabled in Jamstix settings. The issue wasn't in the manual, but thanks for your original non-snarky post.

sonicviz · Post by **sonicviz** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:16 am

Jamstix manual only covers Jamstix and minimal DAW integration, but what you're asking is a pretty common use case between any VST's that generate midi and accept it.

And I wasn't being snarky. I always RTFM, you'd be surprised how many people don't. Good technical documentation takes a lot of effort, and both Jamstix and Live have good docs.

robojam_ · Post by **robojam_** » Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:40 pm

Looks like the AU has all the options for MIDI out - does it support MIDI out? I can't route the MIDI from Jamstix to another track in Live.

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:11 am

robojam_ wrote:Looks like the AU has all the options for MIDI out - does it support MIDI out?

If you mean AU on macOS, per Apple it still does not support proper MIDI output for instruments.

Crane_ · Post by **Crane_** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:02 am

I can't get Ableton Live to find the Jamstix VST? FL Studio finds it no problem. The VST's in the same directory as where I dropped JS AL finds, so what might be the cause of this? Thanks!