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the case with audio inputs, the Input Channel chooser also has meters next to every entry
to represent activity on the respective input channel.
12.3.1 The MIDI Ports List in the Preferences
The MIDI Ports List in
the Preferences.
You can congure which MIDI ports are made available to Live using the MIDI Ports section
of the MIDI/Sync Preferences. All available input and output ports are listed here. For Live's
tracks to receive/send MIDI from/to a specic MIDI port, the corresponding switch in the
Track column must be set to On. You can use any number of MIDI ports for track input and
output; the mixer's In/Out choosers allow them to be addressed individually.
12.3.2 Playing MIDI With the Computer Keyboard
The computer keyboard can be used as a pseudo-port for generating MIDI notes from
computer keyboard strokes. Using this pseudo-port, you can generate MIDI even without a
real MIDI input port. To turn the computer MIDI keyboard on, use the Control Bar's Com-
puter MIDI Keyboard button, or the
(PC) /
(Mac) shortcut
to the Options menu entry.
Activating the Computer
MIDI Keyboard.
The center row of letter keys on the keyboard will play notes corresponding to the white keys
on a piano, beginning on the left with the note C5. The black keys on a piano correspond to
the upper row of computer keys. The four leftmost letters on the lower row of the keyboard
are used to transpose the note range and to set velocity. The results of changing these
values are displayed in the Status Bar at the bottom of the Live screen.
As it happens, when the computer keyboard is set to send notes between C3 and C4, the
keys are mapped to MIDI notes such that the center row of the keyboard (ASDF...) addresses
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