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+ +Since version 5.4, Ardour has had extensive support for the Ableton Push2. This is an expensive but beautifully engineered control @@ -24,6 +28,27 @@ system, and will appear in any of the lists of possible MIDI ports in both Ardour and other similar software.
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+ Linux does not provide normal users access to arbitrary USB
+ devices by default (this is a security measure). To give yourself
+ access to the Push2, you need to create a file in
+ the /etc/udev/rules.d
folder (directory). The name of
+ the should be something like "50-Ableton-Push2.rules" (the only
+ critical parts are that it ends in ".rules" and is unique). The
+ file should contain the following single line:
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+ Note that you will need to be member of the group named in the + "GROUP" property ("audio" in the example above). +
+To connect the Push 2 to Ardour, open the Preferences dialog, and then click on "Control Surfaces". Click on the "Enable" button @@ -44,11 +69,15 @@ aftertouch or polyphonic pressure messages. You can alter this setting via the Push 2 GUI, accessed by double-clicking on the "Push 2" entry in the control surfaces list. -
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+ +With the Push 2 support in Ardour 5.4, you can do the following @@ -99,10 +128,14 @@ them, the video display and the 8 buttons below that are combined to provide a global view of the session mix.
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+ + +The upper buttons are labelled by text in the video display just below them. Pressing one of the buttons changes the function of the @@ -231,10 +264,14 @@ Press the Scale button to enter Scale mode. The display will look like this:
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+ + +In the center, 37 scales are presented. Scroll through them by either using the cursor/arrow keys to the lower right of the