Here’s a cool/quick way to map a MIDI Footboard for Live Looping using Mackie Control emulation (basically we are tricking Live into thinking your Footboard is a Mackie Controller, which has lots of MIDI functions).

1) Set your footboard pedals to send these MIDI notes:

96: Up
97: Down
98: Left
99: Right
100: Launch/Record Selected Clip
76: Undo
101: Launch Selected Scene

2) Select "Mackie Control" in Live’s Preferences. You’ll want to make sure the In and Out sections are set to your footboard (in my case here, I have a Behringer FCB1010 Plugged into my RME Fireface 400 Audio/MIDI Interface).

Now you can move up down left right in Session View, and record/loop on whichever track you want. You can assign a button for Record Arm, or leave all tracks armed.

You can do a lot more than that with Control Aid or Selected Track Control for Ableton Live.

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