How to Set Up Arturia Minilab MkII for Live Performance Without Using a Mouse

[@angiemagee4082]

Great to see a genuinely helpful tutorial rather than a platform to show off. Thank you

[@jilaliferhati]

The only useful video on youtube I found on youtube that shows how to do this set up.

[@michaelkonomos]

This was SO helpful. I have not found this information anywhere else and spent a year thinking that the pads on my MKII were just never going to do anything for me. THANK YOU.

[@MrVahe]

I'm glad it helped!

[@lzrdbrain7737]

3 years later your performance is still legendary and so is this tutorial! Thanks!

[@MrVahe]

Thank you so much, appreciate it!

[@DopamineOverload]

Utter genius. Thank you for this brilliant and INSANELY HELPFUL tutorial. Everyone out there-- please. MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!!

[@christianekipaser5568]

Definitely the best Minilab MK2 live tutorial so far. A clear and concise explanation goes along with such a talented job. You rock man. Keep going !

[@Upside_Down_Guitar_Guy]

Best tutorial by a mile! Thank you so much. Coming from being a guitar player/singer using Logic, Ableton has been a challenge and you've been so helpful

[@MASSKA]

just insane, you know all of ableton in 10 mins, omg, now I can use my minilab, thank you so much for your video, you helped me so much, pls do more videos like that, for help other people who need help like me :)

[@freelance_commie]

Just got mine! Very happy this is the first vid that came up. This is so great!

[@MrVahe]

Happy to hear that man! Have fun 😁

[@jcarnouil]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your setup, really appreciated !

[@fldrummerman]

I've been looking for something like this for a year. Great stuff. Thank you!

[@boskee]

For everyone confused by the shift key mentioned @ 1:25: - If you're using Minilab MkII, make sure you are pressing Shift key located on your Minilab, and not the Shift key on your computer keyboard. Then follow OP's instructions. - If you're using Keylab Essential, there is a different procedure. Instead of pressing and holding Shift (which doesn't exist on the device), you have to press "Map Select" button once without holding it. It is located on the left side of your Keylab device, above the first key. Once pressed, it should light up. With "Map Select" on, press Pad #2 marked as "DAW". It should light up. Once done, press "Map Select" again to confirm your changes.

[@guitarsmotorcycles8606]

Awsome tutorial! Learned more watching this then any other video. And thanks for sharing your secret about pre-recording loops to avoid recording mistakes when playing live.

[@dawgheart12]

Best tutorial or maybe the only tutorial video on ableton. I subscribe!

[@brendanmeade4224]

Super super helpful tutorial on actual Arturia configuration.

[@wdelwyn2212]

by far the best tutorial on yt, thx u so much for uploading this tutorial, juz got mine last few days =D

[@MrVahe]

No problem. Have fun with your controller, you gonna love it :)

[@lewaow]

This is an amazing tutorial to start using the Arturia Minilab MkII!! Thanks a lot!!

[@MrVahe]

Lewa happy to help :)

[@fershred]

why the hell am I watching this, I don't have a synth and I don't use ableton

[@burningmatches9240]

It’s a sign my friend 😂

[@marcolitopimentel320]

How thn to use Arturia minilab

[@EmyllSomar]

Your comment made me buy one. The deep black edition. And I don't even know how to use any of it. [nicely played, Arturia ;)]

[@MARVINSBACKYARDGARAGE]

Because u like a challenge?! Lol

[@harikrishnanpadmanabhan7634]

Its more than a month i bt Art, now happy to see a clear video on Looping live

[@arvinsim]

Thanks for this! It took me ages to find a proper tutorial for the minilabk m2 for Ableton

[@armandofregoni1467]

THANK YOU! For more videos like this one, so helpful!

[@MrVahe]

Armando Fregoni I will make more soon!

[@samprock]

Super clear presentation and using the controller to the fullest!

[@marcomangia]

Thanks a lot!!! So.. in Ableton i can switch anytime to a different keyboard setup and use the pads for the drumkit... Than come back to the prestored Ableton keyboard setup... This is the best tutorial ever!!!

[@williamj056]

Great tutorial! Really helped me finally get the most use out of my Midi keyboard. Thank you so much bro!

[@phuongla4512]

you are bloody awesome, a true gift to society

[@rayromanov]

Great and concise walkthrough on how to set this thing up and use it. Thank you!

[@MrVahe]

Happy to help!

[@joseviyella6610]

@@MrVahe Vage hey vage, your videos are great, but I have a doubt. How can I stop clips from the minilab? And how can I play a whole scene (and stop it) from the minilab). Thanks man

[@AlainGlico]

Thanks a lot, it was very helpful!

[@beauhanister9318]

Thank you so much. I echo the sentiments of the other gratefuls- best by a mile.

[@Jezzalink0]

Brilliant - thanks for putting this together, super helpful.

[@manojdaniel9079]

Great description buddy... Awesome learning.. God Bless you!

[@Perzblazer]

Dude, that was very helpful, thank you very much!!

[@joseviyella6610]

You can play/stop clips if you change the launch settings to toggle mode in ableton. Hope it helps

[@ponvaskon]

Vage, thank you for the great tutorial!

[@intermanhattan]

Thank you Vage! Great video! Huge timesaver and keep up the good work!

[@MrVahe]

Thank you)

[@rdecastrod1]

A really useful tutorial.

[@MrVahe]

Rolando dcd thank you!

[@AbdalaLive]

Amazing video! Please make more minilab tutorials and lives 🙏

[@MrVahe]

Thank you! In process :)

[@AlwaysDrawing2012]

This was a great tutorial! Thank you!

[@7775Kevin]

Thanks for this!!

[@Linteria]

So friggin helpful bro! Thank you.

[@live_emulator]

your a freaking genius. thanks

[@TheSaktum87]

1000 likes for You, I solved a huge problem thanks to your video....

[@ewencousin]

Great! Best tuto about this!

[@MrVahe]

Glad it helped!

[@danielpaes7514]

Thank you, man. You help me a lot!

[@MrVahe]

I’m glad it helped. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s new video. Not about the controller though)

[@frictionless]

Thank you so much!

[@ajfraser224]

This was so so useful! Thanks for a fantastic tutorial! :)

[@MrVahe]

Thanks for watching :)

[@yannguyen733]

very helpful thanks 🙏

[@fortroadmassive4095]

Thank you so much for sharing

[@crankcuffin7238]

Genius! Thank you!

[@wados6666]

big thx u so much for uploading this tutorial! Hello from Russia)

[@MrVahe]

Рад был помочь)

[@christinamasoura624]

I can't thank you enough mate

[@onlybykn]

WWWHAT A TUTORIAL! tHANK YOU! I'll buy one.

[@Saraxceno]

Thank you for sharing is really helpful 😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@m.verkerk8807]

thanks bro..super..!! good luck for you!

[@11donaldo]

love you man!

[@andrewhiltonwinespirits8679]

thanks for this great tutorial

[@nymphagamallo1946]

thanks very helpful

[@jeyashurbayov1100]

Guys be sure that you have already done "Firmware Upgrade" on Midi Control Center to use this awesome controller with Ableton =)

[@OzgunGG]

nice tutorial thanks

Thanks, really helpful 💪

[@omarsowan4780]

Great video. Very useful & your demo song is super too. Very beautiful. One question, I use Logic pro X. Would I be able to use it instead of Ableton, and control it in a similar manner from Arturia?

[@MrVahe]

Hey. Thanks a lot :). I don't think so. Logic doesnt have this feature with boxes as Ableton has, I doubt there is a way. But maybe someone has come up with some idea

[@omarsowan4780]

Thanks for a quick reply 👍

[@FabMuh]

Thanks a lot for this tuto

[@MrVahe]

Glad it helped !

Thank you bro!

[@haythamsalama]

Thank Bro … you made my day honestly :)

[@MrVahe]

Happy to hear that :)

[@joseviyella6610]

@@MrVahe Vage hey vage, your videos are great, but I have a doubt. How can I stop clips from the minilab? And how can I play a whole scene (and stop it) from the minilab). Thanks man

[@MrVahe]

@@joseviyella6610 hey man. You can "Shift+empty pad" and learn midi to the stop all button in Ableton live and assign to any pad. Simple as that :)

[@joseviyella6610]

@@MrVahe thanksss man! The same shift+e-pad to stop single especific tracks? I'm trying to decide between this and launckeymini. I have seen your performance so many times, love it, please make more for us!!

[@MrVahe]

@@joseviyella6610 sure I will do more, now working on a new song. Thanks man :) I never tried launchkey mini, can't say much about it. To stop individually each track you can see at the end of the performance how I did

[@yusefsaife]

Man, this is a great video, thank you for posting it... I was wondering if is it possible to edit settings so you can play AND pause a track while playing in Ableton Live

[@MrVahe]

YUSEF thanks man! not sure if it’s possible. By that time of making this video there wasn’t that feature.

[@josuh5764]

Obrigado pelo vídeo. Aprendi um bocado, algo que como algumas pessoas nos comentários, não havia encontrado na internet. Agradecido!

[@darioparisi6863]

Thank u so much, I needed this video, thx a lot!!

[@MrVahe]

Thank you so much man!

[@darioparisi6863]

@@MrVahe Nothing!! =D

[@NOVAxSHADE]

Thank you! Subbed!

[@enchoi]

Thanks men !

[@KevinDavidRoth]

Thank you very much for the excellent video you did! I have a couple of questions left that maybe you can help me. with the pad (button) 8 moves your tracks vertically, how did you put the pad (button) 16 so that it moves horizontally? When I press the pad according to the track I'm going to record, it goes into record mode, but what should I assign it to start recording the first audio of that track? I hope I have expressed myself well!

[@timurabilov1566]

have you figured it out?

[@DelReiRock]

Thanks, man. But I don’t understand one thing in Ableton Live. If the slot is playing the pad will be gree, right? Can I stop the slot by pressing the pad again? Or should I move to another empty slot and press the pad? That makes no sense to me. Is there any way to start/stop the slot without moving to an empty slot?

[@MrVahe]

Del Rei Rock you have to press the pad on an empty slot. Or you could have a look in the midi control centre if the trigger option will help with this.

[@DelReiRock]

@@MrVahe Thanks man. Actually, I can't understand why you should press an empty slot. Thanks anyway, man.

[@mehdiqurbanli]

Subbed for thiis beautiful and helpful channel

[@KuyaMagik]

how to make the RGB scroll

[@SarabjotSinghKalsey]

you are awesome.. thanks a lot for an amazing tutorial .. just a question - how to stop already playing clips ?

[@MrVahe]

Thank you! I just scroll down to an empty row where the “record enabled” is off and press there

[@MANEL0799]

Interesting but it would have been better to start each track from zero/empty tracks

[@shinsei1122]

Yeah thats what i thought also. Mine doesnt light up yellow even it has some instrument on it. please help Edit: found out that you need to update the firmware first mine was 1.0.7 and in this video his firmware is 1.0.9

[@jaimeescobar4551]

@@shinsei1122 Hey, same problem here! How to update it? I am new, please help lol. Thanks!

[@josephc6670]

@@jaimeescobar4551 go to midi control center, and in the top right it should say firmware revision and what type u have, click on that

[@GAGANDEEP901]

@@josephc6670 that helped thanks a lot :)

[@hewasfuzzywuzzy3583]

Great video. But HOW did you physically connect your MKII Mini Lab Midi controller keyboard to your PC? Are you using an USB Audio Interface Converter? How is your gear hooked up to your computer? I saw in the video there was another audio device connected to your PC when you opened Preferences.

[@MrVahe]

He Was Fuzzy Wuzzy if you just want to use the midi keyboard, you don’t need the audio interface if you are using a Mac. You saw other devices hooked up because I have some other instruments that are connected to my studio.

[@hewasfuzzywuzzy3583]

@@MrVahe Aaaaah... Thank you. That makes sense. Thank you for responding and thank you for your understanding.

[@javiertobore7610]

Thanks, was very helpful! I have a question, which sounds did you use in the live performance?

[@live_emulator]

Have you found a way to control/play the master channels(1-8) and also control the record buttons through mapping to play a midi instrument? I'm having a hard time figuring that out with one shift option with this keyboard.

[@savenokostap]

I love you, dude! thank you so much! Can you show the soures of this information? where i can get a manual or something like that?

[@MrVahe]

Thanks man. I didn't read any manuals, just came up with with ideas. There are a plenty ways to manipulate it. But if you are looking for main manual of the Midi control center or the ladies itself, I believe there are the manuals ob their website

[@MrVahe]

Thanks man. I didn't read any manuals, just came up with with ideas. There are a plenty ways to manipulate it. But if you are looking for main manual of the Midi control center or the ladies itself, I believe there are the manuals ob their website

[@savenokostap]

@@MrVahe yeah, i read manual from arturia's web site, but that manual just about mechanical work with MCC. We can make different templates and the question is "why it doesn't work in analog lab, ableton etc.?" For example, i assignr 2nd knob like "brightness" and i can't hear any changes in sound of my vst when i twist it.

[@joseviyella6610]

@@MrVahe hey vage, your videos are great, but I have a doubt. How can I stop clips from the minilab? And how can I play a whole scene (and stop it) from the minilab). Thanks man

[@msvtechx]

TY BUDDY!

[@socalledsin]

Thank you so much

[@pauljimenez5597]

Hi! I just want to ask about the knobs 8 and 16. Is it automatically mapped like that wherein you can scroll? If not, how did you mapped the knobs that way?

[@oceanradiostation3146]

Great tutorial! Why the Oct- is blinking?

[@j-francoisjeff979]

Musique exceptionnelle. MERCI. A priori un super tuto mais en anglais.....et là au secours: le même en français?

[@leeg8828]

Im kinda new to all this, but when I create a loop and play it back, why do i get a gap at the end of each sequence before it loops again? I just want continuous sound with no gaps.

[@ishlibidish87]

@leeg8828 hey man! I have the same problem. I don't understand why whenever i record loop, after i press pad to stop, there's always a gap. I searched on solutions but what I found are manual fixes to adjust the loop length. I find it tedious and couldn't imagine doing it during live performances. Were you able to figure this out?

[@victorborbalima]

There is a better way to arm tracks than by using the pads. You can use a option.txt file to enable arm on selection then you can use the regular knob 8 function of scrolling through tracks to arm them. To anyone intesrested soundsandgear has a tutorial on how to do this, just search for "ableton arm on selection" and his video should be the first result

[@CJdude55]

Great tutorial, translates well for using the Keylab MK2. I noticed towards the end of the song some of the individual tracks were stopped and I was wondering, if you have pads 1-8 mapped to your tracks and 9-16 for record then what buttons did you use to stop individual tracks? Thanks

[@MrVahe]

I'm glad it worked with Keylab :) I just use encoder 16 to scroll down to an empty row without any clips, then I press on pads 1-8: this way I stop those clips which are playing.

[@CJdude55]

@@MrVahe Excellent thank you! I probably should have got the minilab as I'm very new to this. Thanks for the reply 😀

[@MrVahe]

@@CJdude55 Keylab is also a great choice for beginners. Minilab is just a mini version with smaller keyboard

[@CJdude55]

@@MrVahe Yes I'm getting the hang of it slowly but surely. I don't know if this will help you or not but I discovered today that if you change the clip launch mode to 'toggle' in ableton you can just press the clip pad again to stop the clip, so for example press pad 1 to launch the clip and press pad 1 again to stop it. Maybe you already knew this but I thought it would be helpful for streamlining performances

[@MrVahe]

@@CJdude55 hmm I didn't try this way. Thanks man, I'll try it out 😀

[@hafidiamine]

I am mainly a guitar player. And wanna get into producing music and willing to buy this controller. any advices for rookies ?

[@MrVahe]

It's a great controller to start with. I'm also a guitar player :)

[@NicoMavB]

Nice vidéo :) Do you know what is the button equivalent to the "shift button" of the minilib, but for the Keylab MKII ? Thanks :)

[@hovhannesjulfayan5424]

How to map every each key to control Logic Pro x loops transpose, and the reason why because I want to use Logic loops as a styles like in arranger keyboard to play live.

[@imnetec]

Thak you.

[@xuanvanta4782]

I love this video. This is a lame request but can I have your ableton project file? I want to learn your song. Thank you.

[@deemnaheem]

How you assigned the encoders switching between tracks and clips? Did you write the script? Or set everything up through a midimap? Will these settings be applied in any new project?

[@randommcranderson5155]

The track/clip switch is the default behaviour of the Minilab Mk2 with ableton using the ableton control layout (pad 8)

[@victorialion110]

Спасибо за видео!

[@MrVahe]

ВИКА ЛИОН рад помочь :)

[@Unspoken_12]

Excuse me , When i click my pad why I cannot record? And why my pad 18 can’t move up and down ?

[@lucian.x]

Still doesn't recognize analog lab in ableton lite, I can select a MIDI track itself, without installing a pack, and it sees the key presses when I record, but if I go to add the instrument pack, because I don't see one for the MiniLab, and it doesn't produce sound, nor does it record the sound or the key presses on the track, I'm so lost, and it's really depressing me.

[@hewasfuzzywuzzy3583]

I ran into the same issue ... sort of. I think he's using a USB Midi Host-like a Kenton or a Midiplus. Plus, he might also have that connected to a USB Audio Interface-with Midi cables connecting the two devices to each other. EXAMPLE: The MKII Mini Lab Midi controller keyboard might be connected to a USB Midi Host which is connected (with Midi cables) to a USB Audio Interface which is connected to the PC by way of USB. I've been wracking my brain for the past two days just trying to figure out how exactly do people using a Midi controller keyboard get their keyboard to play the sounds from AnalogLab into Ableton Live aaaaand RECORD IT!!! I get HOW to control Ableton Live with the MKII Mini Lab Midi Keyboard controller. What NO ONE demonstrates is how to PHYSICALLY (NOT virtually) connect their gear to make them do what they're supposed to do so that Ableton Live CAN record what's being played through the MKII Mini Lab Midi Keyboard controller through the AnalogLab software into Ableton Live. * exhausted breathing *

[@chloemercier5789]

Its 2 years and a half now i have this controller and i never knew how to use it properly since. I have the Ableton Live 10 Lite version but i cant save and export my work cuz of a authorization probleme... plus, how can we register the live ?

[@ludovico2069]

thanks for the review. I have a question. Is it possible to program the 16 knobs for controlling plug ins parameters?

[@MrVahe]

Ludo Vico yes you can do that

[@ludovico2069]

@@MrVahe excelente, Thanksgiving hoy Vage

[@pisoloedany]

Salve, l'Arturia MK2 è arrivata ieri e mi piace molto. Purtroppo però essendo profana non riesco a sistemare latenza e assegnare pad. Mi aiuta x favore? Grazie

[@yashk1964]

How is the build quality of the controller? Any problems you faced?

[@MrVahe]

None, still sturdy

[@vinimanara]

Great.