To do so, we’re going to create a MIDI IAC device we can use to loop MIDI notes out and then back into Ableton in a way that will allow us to map them to Ableton parameters for control. Because our ultimate goal here is to control an Ableton plugin parameter with a MIDI note we need a way to make this happen.

Creating a MIDI loopback for Ableton controlīy default, MIDI notes fired from Ableton cannot be MIDI mapped to control Ableton. Okay, let’s get the hard part out of the way first: setting up a MIDI IAC loopback… 1. It really doesn’t matter how you use Ableton as long as you can fire a MIDI clip every time you change keys, probably at the beginning of every song (or I guess every modulation if you’re into that sort of crazy 90’s awesomeness 😂). Our drummer wrote a post that goes into some detail on our set here, but essentially, we use Ableton in session view with a scene for each song that contains the tempo and time signature for each song. Our Ableton setĮveryone’s Ableton setup is a bit different. In part 2, I’m going to show you how we use MIDI clips in Ableton to automatically set the tuning key for our tuning plugin for each song, making it almost impossible for our vocals to ever be tuned out of key! As a reference, feel free to download our Ableton set here (audio clips will be offline) if you need a reference or a starting point for your set. At the end of that post, I warned against simply tuning to a chromatic scale, which can lead to tuning “misses” that easily make your vocals sound worse than they did without pitch correction.

In part 1 I talked about the basic routing setup you need to do basic pitch correction using a digital console, a Dante audio network, and Ableton.

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