Millenium NonaPad Review, FAQ and manual links

How to NanoPad

Millenium NonaPad Review and Test In early March 2022 Thomann’s e-drum brand Millenium released a ‘new’ sampling pad called the NonaPad. I checked out the info provided about it and decided to buy one to test it out and make a NonaPad review. A day after that Vince, an AbletonDrummer colleague and one of my … Read more

Scene Setlist Monitor for Ableton Live

Monitor Ableton Live's Session View

CLICK for PDF manual for main device CLICK for PDF manual for iPad version If you are using Ableton Live’s Session View for playing music live you will need a better and bigger monitoring option for your scene names. The Ableton Setlist plugin provides a big pop-up window which displays scene names. You are able … Read more

Live Looping with Ableton Live

How to live loop Ableton

Live looping with Ableton Live has become a quite big thing for instrumentalist and vocalist. During the pandemic music performers were able to practice social distancing and music making on the same time. Long before the pandemic live-acts like Marc Rebillet, DubFX, Rachel K Collier and Binkbeats (to name a few) were already doing incredible … Read more

Tascam TA 1 VP Auto-Tune with Ableton Live

Tascam TA 1 VP with Ableton Live

AutoTune hardware controlled via Ableton Live MIDI messages from Ableton Live can control the TA 1 VP. This will become handy if you want to automate preset changes and select different presets functions like pitch scales. For live performances the TA 1 VP is the go-to hardware solution for effects like Auto-Tune. You are able … Read more

Using the CHAIN SELECTOR in Ableton

Select one Instrument in Ableton Live via the Chain Selector

“How can I change my (drum) samples and sounds which I trigger in a Drum Rack when switching to a different song in Ableton Live? ” As I’m getting this question on a quite regular basis, I decided to write this blog post/manual. Ableton Live has a great concept for having multiple presets for Instruments, … Read more

Note Speed to Control Parameters – MAP + MIDI CC

Different speed of notes resume in different control values in Ableton Live

The “Note Speed To MAP” device lets you control parameters in Ableton Live via the speed of played MIDI notes. You can MAP a wide range of parameters in Ableton Live. This way you can set-up that faster notes will increase a parameter. You can set from which speed/tempo notes are being played the control … Read more