[Solved]: How to custom assign XYZ MIDI Pad to anything in Ableton Live?

Not necessarily. That’s certainly one option, if the components of your Live set are saved before the show. Some sort of blank template would seem like a good timesaver, but if that doesn’t fit your workflow, so be it.

I was more suggesting that you flash two overlays.

Your XY pads go on the Innovator’s Overlay right now, I’m guessing? That’s one.

Overlay number two could be anything else.

I’d probably use some keys on the QWERTY keyboard, myself because I own one and don’t really like typing with it. So, converting that to some kind of extra function scratchpad makes sense to me.


EDIT:
See footnote in this next block before getting your hopes up about what I suggest there.


The “no overlay” option is like that. It’s another context. But where the morph usually switches to a layout based on which physical overlay you’ve placed on it, this is what it switches to when you don’t have one placed on it.

So, if you’ve memorized the placement of six invisible buttons, you can simply remove your overlay, use those for mapping, and put your overlay back.

At least, in theory.

Apparently, this wasn’t possible a while back.

Not sure if that’s still the case – this may have been a terrible suggestion.


Definitely. I would never suggest otherwise!

That’s come up in several forms, if you’d like to add your voice to those threads…

https://forum.sensel.com/t/more-than-one-layout-per-overlay/

https://forum.sensel.com/t/overlay-switcher-overlay/

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