How to Control LightKey with Ableton Live

[@mattkoehler2374]

Hey Will! Thanks for the video, as always super helpful. My band has been using Lightkey with ableton for about a year and it has been a great experience. Because our show has tracks and lights now, I figured it’s time to set up redundancy and getting a Playaudio 1U. Will our lights have redundancy with A and B computer set up? Or do I have to run lightkey on a separate Mac for that? Any help around this would be awesome. Thanks!

[@OELMEIJER]

Thanks a million for your excellent video's! I'm an Ableton guy and still using DMXIS. The thing that holds me back using Lightkey is the fact that I don't see a way to repatch DMX channels after I program a show. I'm a technician for shows that travel to different theaters. I use a combination of my own fixtures and I use the house lights. So when I get to the venue, I have to repatch some of my DMX adresses. Do you know if that's possible? Thanks!

[@fromstudiotostage]

You’d have to reach out to DMX-is support

[@OELMEIJER]

@@fromstudiotostage , DMXIS does have the patch function, but I want to switch to Lightkey :)

[@OELMEIJER]

Found it 😊

[@fromstudiotostage]

sorry.. meant contacting lightkey.. I'm not an LD and haven't gone that deep with it.. so I can't help much there. @@OELMEIJER

[@joeb.masterkeyz]

Thank Will. Had a similar question to this. For A touring band not traveling with our own lights, We give specifications of the lighting setup we want on the venue. The question is, How do I connect the computer to the lights to have the same results from venue to venue? What do I need to purchase that will connect to the venue-provided Lighting?

[@miamarlene6159]

Hello! Question for you: Lightkey is not showing up for me as a MIDI port on Ableton. What am I doing wrong? I followed along with the video and it's just not there! Thank you.

[@titov7823]

I don't have much money, what is the minimum laptop specs to run Lightkey and Ableton on same computer?

[@gabriel_levi]

I run it on my base model M1 MacBook Air with zero issues.

[@Ray-hw4ig]

@@gabriel_levithat’s an m1 tho 🥲

[@JonValtandtheEvilRobots]

Great channel and content! Want to say you have a typo on your thumbnail. Feel free to delete this comment! :)

[@fromstudiotostage]

Haha. I’ll fix it and delete the comment and no-one will ever know, expect for the Instagram post I made today…oh well, maybe I leave it :)

[@JonValtandtheEvilRobots]

@@fromstudiotostage hehehehe. “Erased from the Internet”

[@fromstudiotostage]

In all seriousness-thanks for letting me know :)