CM 505 in Ableton (looking for some basic advice) - sorry

[toomuchmtv]

Hi,

Sorry if this has already been covered somewhere but I am just looking for some basic advice with CM-505 (I am using it with Ableton).

I got it off of Computer Music Monthly the other month and the long and short of it I have dropped it into a midi track and just presumed it would work like the Impulse drum machine does (so you could effectively draw your beats in). I have the GUI up, found a decent rack and am getting sounds on my midi channel and in my master channel but just am having difficulty recording beats with it (I just can't get it to record).

Am I missing something obvious in terms of the set up here? (I am presuming it is something in Ableton that I have missed and not with CM-505). The GUI with CM-505 is pretty much self-explanatory along with the instructions, I just want to record some beats but can't see what I am missing (the magazine had no walk-through instructions with it as I gather it's been a long running monthly bit of freeware?).

All VST's/VSTi's I have used previously have usually been DJ'ing racks or effects so I expect that it is probably something basic that I am missing.

Thanks,

[toomuchmtv]

Hi,

Sorry for the post - in short I should have looked more carefully. I looked at the back of the plugin to see what corresponded with what and realised that Ableton gave me more notes than actually corresponded to CM-505 drums (and these just happened to be the notes I was trying to record, explaining why I didn't get anything). Totally straightforward now and it was an Ableton thing not anything else - and I should have been a touch more patient

Thanks,

[grymmjack]

use an ableton chord plugin and transpose the keys to the map or use the pitch midi device in live to raise/lower an octave (insert these before CM505) and you might be able to achieve that same key range without changing the CM505 settings as you do with impulse.