How to Use Any Hardware Synth with Ableton Live (Novation Bass Station 2)
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You want to integrate your hardware synth with Ableton Live? In this tutorial you'll learn how to set up audio and MIDI connection from your synth to Ableton and how to record and trigger your synth via MIDI. I use the External Instrument device, which is really easy to set up and use.
In the video I use the Novation Bass Station II but it doesn't matter what synth you have, you can still connect it pretty much the same way.
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Haha... I just connected my Bass Station II and was wondering about the MIDI, and here you are, with this video! Thanks!
I also found in Ableton 10 I didn't need to setup an external instrument, I could just set the MIDI input/output in the channel and it worked too.
Glad the video was helpful! Sure, you can do it this way but you’ll need to setup a separate audio track to hear/record the audio.
Thanks this was very helpful. Just got the AFX bass station this week so am gonna hook it up to my Mac soon.
Hell yeah, the AFX Station is a beauty 😍
Very helpful, exactly what I was looking for!
I’m glad it was useful to you, man!
Hype to Low Heat and Bulgaria!! Thanks for the video.
Much appreciated man!
Been searching for this for a long time, video is very helpful. Thanks a lot!🙂
Glad it was helpful!
The beat is dope, by the way! :D
Thanks! If you like the music you might wanna check out some of my newer videos, this one is 5 years old.
Might be a noob question, but based on this video you can use bass station (or any hardware synth) as a midi controller for any software instrument? So there's no need for a separate midi controller?
Yup, totally.
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Thanks, man! Much appreciated!
Thank you so much! Very clear and useful
Nice! Thanks for watching bro!
If you wanted to to stream as well - would you use Voicemeeter as the input/output devices or stick with Komplete (or Scarlett, etc)?
Unless your audio interface has loopback, you’ll need to use something to route your DAW audio to your streaming software.
Excellent mate, cheers. But I don't see why I need to turn BS2 Local off. I am not getting any doubling. What am I missing?
Thank you! Depending on the sounds that you’re playing and the latency of your audio interface the doubling may not be audible but it’s good to know how to fix it if you have this problem. If you don’t turn it off, every time you play a note, you’re sending the MIDI to the synth twice.
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Great video, Question .. if I wanna use my bass stations sounds directly into MPC LIVE (Stand-alone) mode how is that possible?
Thanks man! I know you can record it directly into the MPC Live but I’ve never used one myself, so I don’t know how it works.
Low Heat Beats how do I set up to record bass lines or synths
How do you get the midi to trigger the arpeggiator on the bass station? It is turned on on the bass station but the midi only triggers one note instead of the arepgiator's pattern.
Hmm I don't quite remember tbh, as the video is from 2018. Did I use the arpeggiator in the video? I skimmed through it and couldn't find that part.
Nice groovy playing! :)
Thanks man!
Looks dope..Thinking about getting the bass station or ultra nova.. haven't decided yet!
Nice! Well, they are both cool but are totally different beasts. Ultranova is much more verstile but the Bass Station is better for juicy, grungy basses.
Great video, but for some reason, I can't hear my recordings? I hear my BS2 when I play it in the Audio track, and I hear when I record it, but when I play back the recording I can't hear it even though I see the sound waves. There must be something that I'm missing. I'm using Ableton Live Lite btw, am I limited with that, for example, there's no external instrument option for the midi channel.
Maybe you haven't enabled monitoring on the audio track?
Hey man nice video. But I have one question. When I connect my Bass Station 2 to the Audio Interface and use the 1/4 inch cable I can only receive/record mono sound (becasue the audio output from the Bass Station is als mono). How to you get it stereo in Ableton?
Thanks man. I'm not sure what you mean by make it stereo. Do you mean how to get it to sound in both speakers?
Thanks for info about doubleling. Really helpful! Also :can you record to ableton midi track all changes made on BS2 to midi? While recording on clip? Like cutoff or other params?
Yeah, if you set up the midi like I did in the video it will also record the knob movements. Thanks for watching!
@@LowHeatBeats Thx :)
Low Heat Beats Hi, I found the video very helpful thanks man. Only question I have is when I connected it as you said to record to midi, when I press a key on the bass station it plays a double note? If you understand my problem or how to fix it I’d really appreciate your advice! Thanks
By the same principle, I use the iPad with ios synthesizers, but I get output latency. How to get rid of it? Unable to use the tool in real time
You should be able to lower the buffer size for your iPad apps to decrease the latency. However I’ve noticed that, with older iPads and with some apps, you may not be able to achieve really low latency.
Low Heat Beats I have an iPad Pro 2017, I connect to the MacBook Pro 13 (2017) just like in the video. I turn on Ableton Link, in Ableton settings the buffer size decreases, but there is no result. Already tried everything.
Well, even if it’s a newer iPad (I’ve got the same one as yours), I’ve noticed the latency on iPad apps is higher than desktop DAWs. I’ve tried to to use it as an external sound module through the lightning cable and it was alright in terms of latency, but not great.
Thank you...this is what I was looking for, I heard from local off but I didn’t receive it 😁
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Noob question: I hear two instances of the synth. One is being routed through ableton, the other is running through my computer. Once I play on ableton I can hear the phasing. This is because both are playing at once. What can I do?
I think the issue here was that I had direct monitoring on in my interface
Yup, it’s the direct monitor that’s causing this.
Hi, I found the video very helpful thanks man. Only question I have is when I connected it as you said to record to midi, when I press a key on the bass station it plays a double note? If you understand my problem or how to fix it I’d really appreciate your advice! Thanks
Hey thanks! You need to turn off local keyboard control on the Bass Station, I explain it around the 7th minute. Thanks for watching!
Low Heat Beats hi mate, I watched it again and realised you had explained it already!! I’ve now fixed it and it works great. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Low Heat Beats hi, only problem I now have is that I’m using headphones to produce which are connected to my Scarlett audio interface so when I switch local off on the bass station 2 I can no longer hear it playing in my headphones. Any idea how I need to connect so I can hear it still but avoid the doubling? Thanks
I’m not sure man. Local off shouldn’t affect whether you hear it in the hadphones or not. Only thing I can think of is: Make sure you’re not using direct monitor on your Scarlett. Turn it off because it will definitely cause doubling.
Low Heat Beats thanks so much you’ve been very helpful, last question I promise!!! When i play an audio file, a drum loop for example, the timing seems to be out with the bass station 2 , especially when day playing a midi file through it? Any idea why? Thanks man.
Thanks bro, very useful.
Thanka for watching bro 🙏
Can i start the bass station sequencer with ableton?
Not sure but should be possible if you set up the MIDI sync.
Great video
Thanks for watching!
U ever hook the push 2 up to your hardware synth? Pretty dope.. great video btw
Thanks bro! You can play the synth from the Push with this configuration, no need for additional setup.
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where you from bro? I cant place the accent
I'm from Sofia, Bulgaria.
@@LowHeatBeats Nice channel! You make really nice music
Hey, this is so nice of you to say. Thank you!