This article will guide you to set up Ableton Live with Groovesetter for multi-track uncompressed audio input and output.
Refer to the following two articles for help with setting up your input and output devices:
Configuring Audio Devices on macOS
Configuring Audio Devices on Windows
When starting or joining a session, you have the ability to select the number of virtual channels to be used during your session.
As a session creator, you can select up to 8 virtual input and output channels.
All groovers invited to a session can join the session with a maximum of 2 virtual input and output channels.
To use the Groove-link audio routing matrix for connecting the audio signals to and from Ableton Live, make sure you launch Ableton Live after your Groovesetter Session is active.
NOTE: Your Groovesetter session may crash after you start Ableton if the input and output device set within Ableton is the same as the input and output device used in your active Groovesetter session. If your session crashes:
- Close Groovesetter
- Open Ableton and disable your input and output device in Ableton's sound preferences.
- Open Groovesetter and start a new session
- Once your session is active, select jackrouter as your input and output device in Ableton
Open Ableton’s audio preferences and select jackrouter as your input and output audio device. The number of channels you specified in the Groovesetter session settings window, will be available as inputs and outputs in Ableton Live.
Ableton Live will show up on your Groove-link audio routing matrix with the corresponding number of virtual input and output channels.
After you assign the input and output channels for each track in your Ableton session, you can route audio to and from the track using the corresponding Groove-link routing tile.
Along the top of the Groovesetter audio routing matrix are the sound sources arriving from Ableton, shown as incoming signals. These correspond to Ableton’s output channels.
Sound Recipients are the channels sending audio to Ableton. These correspond to Ableton’s input channels.
The Groove-link audio routing matrix enables you to record multiple signals arriving from multiple groovers or other sound sources on separate tracks in Ableton, as well as to route multi-track outputs from Ableton to any sound recipient connected to your session.
To learn more about audio routing using the Groove-link audio routing matrix, read this article.