Roland JP-80×0 Editor – Ableton Live

Audio Configuration

First, open Ableton Live, click Options [1] from the top bar and select Preferences… [2] – We are making adjustments to Audio and MIDI settings which are crucial for our Editor to work flawless.

Open Live Preferences

Open Audio [1] tab and select your Audio device [2] you use for your setup (if not set already). We are going to use UMC ASIO Driver [3].

Assign Live Audio Device

After Audio engine is initialized, click Input Config [1]. Enable input ports [2] you use with your setup and rename ports [3] as they are routed.

Live Input configuration

Our input ports [1] are now renamed accordingly. Click OK [2] to close input config.

Input configuration completed

MIDI Configuration

Next we want to adjust MIDI ports and how they are shown in Live. Click on LINK / TEMPO / MIDI [1] to open it. Check and make sure all the physical MIDI ports [2] are disabled from MIDI section.

Now you can Enable Roland JP-8000 vIn [3] to trigger other VSTs in your session (if JP-8000 is used as your master keyboard).

Modify Live MIDI ports

While we are at it, lets enable virtual ports [1] created in loopMIDI / MIDI-OX guide. When you use the virtual ports on MIDI tracks, you get tight DAW timing. Note that physical MIDI ports [2] are unchecked so that we can use them with the Editor.

Enable virtual MIDI ports in Live preferences

Check “tracking” and “sync” for the JP virtual output ports. With sync toggled on, you can pass MIDI clock information from DAW to your hardware which is used when LFOs or Effects are clocked to incoming MIDI clock status.

Before we are all done, make sure the physical ports which are used to connect with JP are not used within the Control Surfaces [1] section!

Disable physical hardware ports from control surface use

Now can click close [1] to exit preferences.

Live Preferences are done!