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iv. 8x2 Soft Buttons
The 8x2 soft buttons area (above the faders) allow you to change the state of your tracks quickly. The button labels on
the far right screen display the current function of the soft buttons.
• Mute and Solo
By default the 8x2 soft buttons function according to bank 1 where the top row (the yellow buttons) mutes and un-
mutes tracks, and the lower row (the dark blue buttons) toggles solo on and off. When muted, the yellow soft buttons
will become a dark yellow; conversely, when soloing a track the corresponding soft button will become bright blue.
• Monitor and Record Arm
You can move to bank 2 by pressing the green down arrow to the right of the 8x2 soft button area. Now, the rightmost
screen will indicate that the top row of soft buttons (again in yellow) cycles through MIDI/Audio Monitoring options. By
default, Ableton Live tracks are set to ‘Auto’, but pressing the top row of buttons will allow you to change monitoring
to ‘Off’ or ‘In’. The bottom row (dark red) controls the ‘record arm’ option. When you set a track to ‘Monitor In’ its soft
button turns ice blue, and when you record arm a track its soft button becomes bright red.
v. Options
Options View provides functionality for viewing and editing various track parameters as well as displaying device
chains and selecting from the devices in the chain.
Within InControl mode, pressing the Options button opens the Options View.
• Displaying Device Chains and Device Selection
Upon entering the Options View, the upper part of the screens will show the device chain on the currently selected
track. These devices may be Ableton instruments or audio/MIDI effects, or third-party ones.
• Click a pink pad to select the devices you wish to control. This turns the pad bright pink and selects the name
of the device on the screen above.
• Press the Options button again to return to the default InControl View (where pads control clips).
• Now, the rst eight parameters for the device you just selected are displayed on the screens and moving the
rotary knobs above will adjust those parameters.
The images above show an Ableton Live device chain. In this case, we have selected Limiter. This is conrmed by the
‘blue hand’ symbol on the Ableton Live screen, and would be shown on SL MkIII by a bright pink pad and device name
on the SL MkIII screen.
If you want to select another device (coming from elsewhere in Options, like Pan) the rst soft key under the screens
called ‘DevceSlct’ will get you back to the Device Chains and Device Selection View.
• Device Parameter Banking
You can select additional device parameters using the up and down arrow buttons to the left of the screen when a
device is selected in Ableton, this is indicated with the blue hand icon next to the device name. Pressing the arrow
buttons will switch through banks of parameters, allowing you to change the selected bank with the rotary dials.