Behringer X-Touch | Ableton Live 9/10: Complete Walkthrough
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2019
- Hey guys! Nyroh here, and in this video we're gonna have a COMPLETE walkthrough at the functionality we can get with the amazing Behringer X Touch in Ableton Live 9 or 10!
Here's the link to my REVIEW:
• REVIEW: BEHRINGER X TO...
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The "SAVE" button activates Ableton's "Back to Arrangement" function.
Launching a clip or scene will trigger the "Back to Arrangement" option in Live, indicated by a red backlit "SAVE" button on the X-Touch.
Pushing a red "SAVE" button will switch playback to the contents of the arrangement, at the current arrangement position.
Greeeeeat! Thank you so much man 😎
Guys let's give this one some likes so that everyone else can see!
@@soundrocketstudios Happy to contribute, great tutorial!
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For multiple solo or record enable just hold down control on the X touch then select your track record/solo buttons
Amazing review, thanks a bunch!
Fantastic review!! Great job, i really needed a video like this!! Thank you
Fantastic explanation thanks a million.
Thank you!
Cheers 🎹
in ab.eton changeg solo exclusivly to a different mode - that way you can press solos as you wush at one time,with no shortcuts
Damn let's give this one some likes. I actually never saw this option! Thank you 🙏🏻
Nyroh you can also hold down Control under the Modify buttons while Soloing as many tracks as you’d like.
You can always control click the solo buttons in the DAW for anyone who is not familiar with this way to solo more than one in the standard mode..👍
How to do it: In Ableton Preferences - Record/Warp/Launch tab - disable 'Exclusive' 'Solo'.
Wow THANK YOU for taking the time to walk through this. Everything shown here works with the ICON QCON Pro G2 which I just purchased. As an emulation of an MCU it has has a nearly identical control layout and function to the X-Touch. I could not find a product specific walkthrough for the ICON and was wondering what all the buttons do. This is the only thing I found that walked through the whole MCU implementation for Ableton. I'm ready to conquer the world now. Bravo!
Sonarworks 4, it helps great to improve the sound of your studio.
The ability to have multiple tracks soloing seems to have been sorted.
Is there a changlog or an update overview for this anywhere?
You can solo multiple tracks by holding the CONTROL button on the X-Touch, just like you would with your mouse and keyboard. The button is in the MODIFY section.
Thinking of using this along side the Push 2!
Miglior Walkthrough --> X-Touch w/ Ableton Live, complimenti !!
🍻 cheers for this
Jogwheel + Control-button to change the Tempo.
Thanks for the video... not sure if anyone mention this before but if you want to use multiple solo simultaneously just press the ‘control key at the xtouch’ and then select the desire solo channels. Please note that if you have xtenders this function will work also with them.
That's great! Thank you for sharing!!!
Cheers 🎹
@@soundrocketstudios your welcome... I don’t know all the functions myself but it looks like there are some extra hidden functions using the ‘control key’... ie: control key + dial will adjust the tempo... Behringer should release an xtouch editor for DAWs but they are to busy cloning the world... 😆
@@TheSupergan they really should but.... Pretty sure they won't 😔
They create great stuff but sometimes leave it as it is
I'll check out the other functions asap! 😊
ableton by default has exclusive solo enabled.. you can disable this in settings>record warp launch >exclusive...once disabled you dont have to use control key..this might be the desired behavior you are looking for
Thanks for the thorough walkthrough. Not sure if you have the answer to this, but is there a control on the unit to switch between the Monitor modes for each track (IN, AUTO, and OFF)?
I'm writing custom Remote Script for X-Touch (based on original Mackie but with right button mappings and additional features). So how do you think what is the best way to switch Monitor controls? In example: if you press Alt or Shift then ARM leds will show you: Monitor off - ARM Led off, Monitor AUTO - ARM Led ON, Monitor ON - ARM Led BLINKING. Or Monitor control can be switched by some button on selected track but you'll not see 8 tracks at once
hi nyroh! does the flip function also work in plugin mode? so that i can control different paramenters of the plug in with the faders and does the flip function also when sending?
Love the video but I have one doubt. In a track selected, can you choose from the Xtouch which send you want to use (A,B,C,…)?
Hi Nyroh - MANY THANKS for the work you do here! Can I ask a question about how you set up the X Touch with Ableton 10? I have an X Touch that works perfectly with Logic and ProTools 12. But I am using Ableton 10 more and more for my music production. But when I plug the X Touch in and use it in Ableton, none of the buttons light up like you have in the video above, and the motorized faders keep resetting to zero - have you come across this? How did you get your X Touch set up? Did you have to map everything yourself?
I am having the same issue. What is the fix?
@@MrHouston11 I also the same issues. I have Ableton 10 and can not connect it... could you help me ?. Thanks.
Can you post picture of your X Touch? I am so excited by the details you shared I want to just label and mix!
Can you map the faders to a custom setting? ie. each fader controls a macro on a custom rack. Additionally, would suit my workflow to have alternate banks set to different racks. The faders, not the encoder rings.
Best walkthrough for Ableton out there. Thanks. Has the functionality improved since you shot this?
Hey thank you for your comment! Actually haven't used ableton that much again. More concentrated on studio one and...working on the acoustics of my new studio! 🤣
Cheers
Nyroh 🎹
Thank you so much for this. It was way better than the Behringer support which was virtually non-existent
Thanks. This was helpful! Not sure if this came new in Live 11, but the function buttons (F1-F8) and the ones above don't do nothing anymore. They play some notes instead. Very useful... 😅 I haven't figured out if or how they can be customized, yet. I'll look into it.
have you found a solution about it ? thx
Great video I'm actually looking for a fader port controller are you still using the behringer xtouch n if not would u recommend me to get this one or do you have any other suggestions?
Still using it!! Workd great 😁😁
If you have automation drawed in Ableton, and you play - will the faders move motorically according to the automations? I know Faderport 8 does this, but I didn't see it anywhere when I looked through this or other videos of the X-Touch. Thanks!
pretty sure it will
I Love my X Touch
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How do u set it up I hate when people don't start from the beginning .
Thank you for a great review! Do you know if it’s possible to control the volume of return tracks with the faders? It does not work on my X Touch One
Actually don't know sorry! Haven't been in the studio in the last few days/weeks actually. Life just got super busy for me but will get back on track in the next few days/1 month max 😄
Hope you found your answer!
Maybe anyone else can chime in?
Thank you kindly for the video! I have a little problem though, when I move one fader of the first track, the second fader also changes its position. Same goes for other tracks in pairs - 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and so on. Have you seen this problem before?
Hey Yarovids! Nope, never had this problem to help you unfortunately 😐 Seems like there's a redundance in what the daw sees. What daw are you working with?
I meant to ask u....if u hav a drumrack unfolded on track 1 does th Xtouch map to th rest of th pads/drums or does it skip to next track 2 lets say synth .etc....if thts clear enuff
Got that, I'll check asap
Which button turns the metronome on and off?
Sorry if I missed it in the video, but if I have say 16 tracks in a project, will the controller change to show tracks 9-16 if i press some page-button or something like that?
Also, does it display the name of the channels automatically, as soon as I name them in Live?
Yes to both! It changes the channels shown (with channel names. fader positioning and panning too) and it is connected with what is written in the project
Buongiorno Nyroh. Do you have experience with Ableton Push? If yes, what are the advantages in using the X-Touch with Live? I understand that X-Touch is usable with other DAWs and that Push also works as a music creation tool which in my case I don't really need because I already have NI Maschine Studio and a komplete Kontrol Keyboard. So I wonder how they compare more in terms of building up a song, mixing, editing, moving things around, efects, etc. Faders seem to be more interesting than pads for this purpuse! Thanks in advance.
Feel like they're totally different...
I've had a push 1 in the past. Push is for music creation "in the ableton way" and you can use it for post production/mixing/mastering too. You can map it to plugins (even if I don't specifically remember how) and it would surely be already mapped for the ableton fx and processors. It would be much more useful for music production and editing than the x touch and it would work for the basics of mixing (even if I can't tell you much because I DON'T LIKE ableton for mixing).
On the other side with the x touch you'll have a totally different feel because it's created with mixing in mind. So faders, rotaries, play, stop, etc etc (+ some plugin control as you have seen in the video)
BUT I need to say this
Knowing that you have a machine studio anyway I feel like you wouldn't need a push that much (just saying...)
Don't know if you use it only to control the komplete kontrol plugins or not but, maschine and its ecosystem is something pretty disconnected from ableton (even if u can make them merge partially 4 sure). Me personally I never really liked it (had the 1st maschine too lol) and what I'm saying is: if you use the maschine program a lot and you're buying the push 2, you're going to use push mostly for mixing and not use close to any of the production tools that it could give you (because you have maschine...). The other way around, if you want to go fully into ableton, you're probably not gonna use machine that much anymore too (apart from, as I said, maybe controlling Komplete kontrol plugins)
This second part is just a thought I had if I was choosing for me ;)
Cheers
@@soundrocketstudios Wow, thank you so much for your detailed answer! Each mouse click takes me away a little bit of the joy of making music. I need to feel this stuff so I'm gonna buy an used push 2 (found a good deal) and see what it is to work with it. Latter maybe selling it again or Maschine. Because of you I got to know Studio One which seems to be a VERY interesting alternative to mixing, mastering and also recording real instruments, so eventually also getting it and the X-Touch latter on. Thanks for the extremely useful videos. You have a new subscriber.
@@dhfg9106 It's always a pleasure to help another music enthusiast! 🎹
Studio one for me is lovely for mixing/mastering. I may not have the rights to say this (because I haven't really tried for it) but for production I still prefer ableton; seems like it's generally mentally easier
Happy for your decision btw! A tip for when you'll get your push, take some time with it; even if perfectly implemented in ableton you'll still have to learn some push tricks to make your life easier
And thank you for the subscription, I'll come back making videos soon 👍
Have a nice day full of music!
How did you get the jog wheel and the Up down left right zoom buttons to work? Mine only seems to switch in the Mixer window. I´m guessing i am just missing something really simple.
Be sure you set it up correctly in your midi settings like explained here www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/how-do-i-set-up-my-behringer-x-touch-in-ableton-live/
Hello! Curious about the jog wheel function - does it map to the global quantization setting? I.e., if you have global quantization set to "8 bars" will it jump backward and forward 8 bars at a time as you rotate? How does it function if you turn off global quantization? Does it allow you to move around the track while the track is playing? Would appreciate any insight on this. Thanks!
Hey! Sorry for the delay
No, unfortunately its move size doesn't change upon your view or quantization settings. Seems like it's always stuck to 1 bar
@@soundrocketstudios No worries, thanks for the info!
@@soundrocketstudios If you hold down the apple/Alt key and use the jog wheel it moves in smaller increments
@@Anya-ip6fd great to know and thank you for commenting!
FINALLY ....A GREAT IN DEPTH VIDEO OF XTOUCH with ABLETON !!!! IN ENGLISH AT THT LOL !!!!...NOW I HAV TO DECIDE ...XTOUCH OR X COMPACT....THANKS
Glad u liked it! 🙏🏻
Welllllll if the price difference is no too big (don't know where u at so don't know about your prices) I wouldn't really think about it
You really get a lot more. BUT the compact is still surely an amazing controller so... If u can, get the bigger brother, you won't regret it
And if not, no prob, it won't surely stop your music 💪🏻😉
@@soundrocketstudios yea th bigger 1 def would be nice. I meant to ask u....how long hav u had it ?? My next worry is about motorized faders failing to soon lol.
About 1 year now! Haven't had any problem ever with it and even if it's usually "cool" to talk bad about behringer equipment, I really don't think they break that fast as they say (I've had a xenyx 1622 fx for 20 years! Still perfect condition 🤣)
The only problem I've had with it is the touch of the faders on windows as explained on the review video but I found a solution so no problem
Remember that it's the following up of the bcf 2000 so it's their second series of "small controllers" with that job in mind 💪🏻
are the slider touch-sensitive with Ableton? I know with logic just touching the fader on the x-touch selects the channel in the software. can you tell Ableton to do that?
As far as I know, no it does not. Would have been nice tho
I'm pretty sure if you right click and turn off the grid you will get a lot more precise control over the jogwheel
Hmm will check asap!
Thank you! 😁🎹
idea of which one to get - this one with an extender or the presonus faderport 16?
Tuff question! I'd get this for pan pots, better layout, better build and durability/price for materials and I'd get the faderport for.... Colored scribble strips and for the facts that it would be 16 controls at a time, if controlling a plugin
hey man, My Xtouch Faders makes noise going up but are silent coming down. is this normal??
Hi. I have a x-touch one. I love it but a major annoyance is that when say track 1 fader is up on the x-touch and I select track 20 in Ableton. The fader does not jump to that track like it does in logic. It only stays in banks of 8. I have to manually use the bank button on the controller and push it until it gets to the bank with track 20. Then the fader snaps into position for the selected track in Ableton. Is this the same with the X-touch and X-touch compact. Also if I did buy two of them to make 16 tracks. Will this issue be the same. Thanks for the help.
Hi! Yes, unfortunately it doesn't follow what's on screen which is a bit of a bummer...
And I can say it would probably be the same with the x touch compact
Cheers
Hi Nyroh !!!
Can you help me with this doubt?
The faders are not positioned at 0db. When I open Ableton and / or a new channel, the 8 faders, including Main, are positioned between + 4db and + 5db.
Can you tell me if this is normal or if there is some kind of configuration?
Congratulations on the video! Even though I know very little English, I managed to understand just about everything.
Yes, unfortunately everything is normal
In ableton the keep that position
Don't specifically remember but I think it's explained in the video too 👍🏻
@@soundrocketstudios Ok ok ... thank you very much!
Why did the channel 2 volume fader suddenly move up at 5:50 when you were scrolling through the audio inputs on channel 1?
Waaaat
Absolutely no idea 🤣
Maybe I moved something with my mouse and it changed or...
Who u gonna caaal
....
Ghostbusters!!
Nyroh a ghost visited you and you didn’t even notice! 😂
Seriously though it looks like it was in the wrong position and when it moved it went to the correct one. Something must have triggered it to check where it was and it saw it was in the wrong position. Oh well, just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing something.
Yeah maybe it's that
I'll have a look next time I open up ableton
Thank you for telling me 💪🏻
I think shift and the jog wheel move it faster. Also the button the goes down the scenes is actually playing the scenes, in your settings it’s also moving to next scene, that’s why there is no “up” button.
Did you try holding the control button when selecting another one to solo?
Yeah I can confirm that works as well ;)
they actually updated that function. Now you can solo just by pressing the tracks but using "control" will unsolo all tracks or solo will follow the track selection.Also holding control and using the jog wheel ..changes the tempo. Holding the alt and jog wheel will scrub more slowly.
That's really great! Thank you for letting us know 🙏🏻
@@soundrocketstudios - My bad , I didnt knew but theres an option on Ableton to solo 1 track at the time or the tracks that prefer. Pref/Record,warp,lunch/ exclusive ..Solo
@@AudioReplica2023 Damn I completely forgot about that but used to use this years ago!
Thank you man
Does anyone know whether the job wheel moves the actual playhead or just the insert marker in Arrangement view? I have a Faderport classic and the transport controls only move the arrangement insert marker which means you cannot use the controller to start the song from a particular bar
Yes it does that, It works actually pretty good if you update and map it. but no need to map for the job wheel
do you have a higher resolution image of how you labeled your x touch buttons. someone should make an ableton live overlay for this.
Sorry don't have any of that! A lot of time passed and a lot of re-installations after, I'm currently using the standard setup since don't have time to get it back as it was lol
Don't reset your pc as frequently as I do 🤣
How can you mapping the "F" buttons while keeping the device in Mackie control?
I saw somewhere that Live 10 does not work the same as in Live 9. So you know anything about this? I am still trying to decide between this X-Touch, and since my other DAW is Studio One, FaderPort 8. Do you know much about FaderPort 8 from PreSonus?
Hey Gary! Sorry for not answering on the other comments you created but I completely forgot! Sorry 😕
Don't actually know about the difference between 10/9 with the x touch. I still have live 9 and don't feel the need to update anytime soon. I really wanted to start using studio one only but ableton just feels like home when producing 😊
Anyway, I already answered some questions about the faderport on the x touch review video so you may find something more there but here's what I generally think
I haven't really tested the faderport in an everyday use situation but I compared the two directly in a local store and definitely liked the feel of the x touch more
The materials used makes the faderport look and feel more like a toy to me and then there's two things: no pan pots and faders too incredibly close. Man, I just can't stand the fact that without looking, I had to "force" my fingers to stay closer one another to move two or three faders together. Not a super hard thing to do but...I mean... it is really too close for me. And I don't even have big fingers (I'm a pianist and piano teacher too)
And the no pan pots thing is just not a great idea for me.
Hope for a better version two for the faderport 8/16 series. But for now, I'm an x touch guy
Thank you for commenting!
Cheers
Nyroh 🎹
@@soundrocketstudios Thanks for getting back to me. I am still up in the air about the comparison between the FaderPort and the X-Touch, but after seeing your reply, and realizing that the X-Touch definitely has more flexibility in both the amount of control as well as the back panel with greater connectivity. I am also thinking that down the road I may want to get into X-Air and the XR18 to do live sound. You can use ethernet to control your mix to the SR18 on stage as your inputs (no need for a snake!). Thanks again for the great videos.
I'm on Live 11. Everything works the same as in the video. I'd be surprised if 10 was any different.
Is there a way to controll the macros of a Rack with the Faders?
You should be able to control the 8 macros of the rack with the rotaries in plugin mode, then it's always possible to click the flip button and switch rotaries and faders so.... Yes 👍🏻
Do the faders/pan knobs follow any written volume/pan automation?
Absolutely! Yes
@@soundrocketstudios Nyroh, please let us know the steps to automate parameters.
@@dr.leestonepsychotherapist The usual way! You just have to turn on the automation button, record for the channel and record a lil clip while you move the parameter you wanna automate :)
@@soundrocketstudios Thanks Nyroh, now I'm trying to decide between this one and the One version.
@@soundrocketstudios Thanks again Nyroh. One last question: how do you program the F1 thru F8 buttons for things like: split, consolidate, etc.? Is it possible?
How can i write Automation on plugins with a x touch one????
This is the best walkthrough i have ever seen. this should be the number one education source for other´s. no bla bla.deep and perfect information delivered like a gun and crystal clear. that is how its done. coooooool !!!
Thank you thank you thank you, you're too kind!! 🙏🏻
I'll do my best to keep it like this ones 💪🏻 Have a nice day full of music 🎵
How many xtouch can you use with Ableton
impossible to find how to add a locator with the X-Touch One version?... If somebody knows, thanks a lot ! @nyroh
Would this go haywire if PUSH 2 was connected at the same time?
Did you ever find this out
@@robertfimbres9628 nah . I just used this through like "aux" channel . Never got it MIDI controlled compatible
How to I change the scribble strip color.
a little bit more aggressive with the buttons and I see you contacting warranty dept for the x touch. lol. Also..with the zoom cursors you can engage clips to play and stop by selecting them on the mixer view.
Haha that's all done for the sake of the review 😂😂
I hope they'll send me some spare ones just in case
And thank you! Didn't know that
The Scrub Button starts the active Scene in Session View and in your settings you probably have "activate next Scene" activated. ;-)
Ne farai mai video sul mix e mastering spiegato bene che propio non riesco a capire dove sbaglio
Sarò sincero, mi viene difficile dirti si!
Questo perché è il mio unico lavoro musicale oltre ad accompagnare eventi feste etc. Potrei fare recensione di qualche plugin o hardware ma... Video spiegazioni su come fare mixing o mastering gratis, no. Non penso di farne (sarebbe un po' come mandarmi via i clienti hehe 😅)
Nel caso però ti faccia piacere saperlo, per l'anno nuovo ho portato a UN TERZO i prezzi che avevo sia per mixing che per mastering
L'ho fatto per trovare un po' più di collaborazioni, clienti e amici musicali! Nel caso ti andasse di leggere l'informativa con i prezzi e le spiegazioni per tutto, questo è il link goo.gl/NDbvhB
(avrei fatto un video fra un mese con spiegazioni 😉)
To expand and fold groups you just press the main group track. JUST SAYING.
Thanx for this tips but where is the "main group track" button? wich button i have to press? thax
t=2:57 because it actually explaine the word 'solo' ... Hahaha
Can you customize the colors of scribble strips?
Nope, unfortunately you can't 🤔
It's not implemented in the mackie languadge, at least in this controller
Nyroh ah oh well! Do you know of any other controller that does this?
@@reacherstudio Sadly no...in ableton (apart from push) there's no controller with fader format in mind that does that. In s1 there's the faderport series but the lil select buttons on top of faders don't change colors in ableton
2:23 is what I’m talking about. When you click in Ableton and select track tracks 1-8 work fine but when you clicked on the Perc 2 track which is trk 9. The faders did not jump to show you the level and pan etc. if the Perc2 channel. This sucks. I have messed up mixes because I thought I was raising the volume of the wrong track because the fader did not jump once it was out of the 8 track bank limit
Actually bought one of these to use with Live 9. Installed it today and have to say that I'm somewhat disappointed. The first thing that got me annoyed was that unity gain in the DAW doesn't mean 0 on the X-touch faders. All in all, there really are too few things that are actually working: so many buttons that don't do what they say. I think I will return it rather than try to costumize it.
keep in mind that that equipment can be used as a mixer interface for the XR18 for example.... not only a daw controler
dude fix your audio. killing my ear. maybe you did. lol
Yes I did....Sorry!
@@soundrocketstudios Thanks! Switched to Thumbs up for proactivity!