dLive & Avantis MIDI Scene Control in Ableton Live

I’ve been working on optimizing some of my processes and wanted to share this here:

https://technuso.gumroad.com/l/MSC

It’s an extension for Ableton Live that lets you recall up to 500 scenes on dLive and Avantis consoles via MIDI. The concept is pretty straightforward: MIDI notes select groups of scenes (10 per note), and velocity determines the exact scene within that group. So with a single note + velocity value, you can directly trigger any scene.

Everything is designed to be quick to set up and reliable in a live environment, especially if you’re already working with dLive or Avantis.

Curious to hear your thoughts on this approach.

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Why not stick to Program Changes?

Basically a great thing, which I could use in future. Planning to fire scenes from the Ableton backing track machine of a band I am doing FOH.

It actually does use Program Change under the hood :slightly_smiling_face:
The MIDI note + velocity mapping is just a more “musical” way to think about it inside Ableton.
Instead of dealing with PC numbers directly, you can trigger scenes in a way that fits naturally into clips and MIDI programming.

Glad to hear it might be useful — that’s exactly the kind of use case I had in mind (triggering scenes from a backing track rig at FOH or on stage).

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Of course it has to use PCs in the end. :slight_smile:

Okay, so Note 1 would be 1-10, Note 2 11-20 and so on?