I have an Arturia Keylab Essential 61. I’d like to map the drum pads on it to use with Groove Agent 5, but I’m not having any luck. Admittedly, I’m a novice with this controller and typically only use the keys (which worked in Ableton Live for many years), so I’m certain my own naivety is in the way here. I’ve never used it with Cubase.
There’s plenty of information online about getting it to work as a control surface… and the transport controls work fine in Cubase. But, I don’t want it for that… I just want drum pads currently and keys in the future.
Halion 7 won’t work either. Not sure if this might be a hint, but of the 61 keys… the ones on the far right act as transport Play/Stop. I tried changing octaves, but still no sound triggered in either VSTi
It’s connected via USB
Any tips or advice would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance
Anyone know what the right verbiage would be so I can look this up?
I can’t watch another video that only ends up talking about how to control transport, faders, and pots or I’m going to punch myself in the face
The 3 pads in Groove Agent where I’ve loaded my audio samples say C1, C#1, and D1
On the Arturia Keylab Essential 61, it says ‘Groove Agent’ on the display. If I hit Pad 1 it says Note C1. If I hit Pad 2 it says Note C#1… and so on.
But hitting a physical pad on the Arturia doesn’t trigger a virtual pad in Groove Agent.
I downloaded the Groove Agent 5 manual… and the [brief] MIDI Controllers section on page 201 talks about Volume and Pan.
I just want to hit a physical pad and hear the loaded sample play… and maybe even record it, if I can get to that stage. What key words do I need to search the web for how to do this?
I have Keylab Mk3 (not the Essential)
I think the behaviour is a bit sketchy - but here’s how I got it to work:
Load Groove Agent with kit - I also set the drum map to ‘get from instrument’ in the routing section of the inspector tab (not sure whether this was needed or not)
Turn Monitor on for the Groove Agent Track (the speaker icon should be orange)
If you are in DAW mode/Plugin on the Keylab - the Pads should now be mapped - make sure you have the correct Pad Bank - mine was on D and need to be on A to get C1 for kick.
Step 3 - didn’t immediately work for me…so…
Go into Arturia mode - not DAW Mode - now it’s all working for me - Pads on Keylab are playing the drum pads from Groove Agent.
Go back to DAW mode, making sure you are on Plugin, not mixer. Now this is all working fine.
Step 3 -5, plus a little head scratching here, got me where I was trying to go. I cannot go so far as to say that I understand how, but it’s working. Going to Arturia mode and back to DAW seems to have been the missing element.
I never did find the ‘get from instrument’ option from step 1… So I thought this was possibly the culprit. The whole thing feels a bit weird, like jiggling the handle on the toilet to make it stop running… But, I have the drum pads working and that’s what I wanted. Thank you again for taking the time to respond.
