{"id":1723912,"date":"2014-09-22T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=1723912"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:29:55","slug":"my-akai-apc40-mkii-isnt-working-in-ableton-live","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/my-akai-apc40-mkii-isnt-working-in-ableton-live\/","title":{"rendered":"My Akai APC40 mkII isn&#8217;t working in Ableton Live."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support for the APC40 mkII was added to Ableton Live as of version 9.1.3. Make sure you are at least running that version in order to use your APC40 mkII to it&#8217;s fullest extent in Live. The APC40 mkII will also work with Ableton Live 9 Lite.<\/p>\n<p>Once you are running Live 9.1.3 or later, you can set up the APC40 mkII according to the following instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Launch Ableton Live<\/li>\n<li>Open Preferences &gt; MIDI Sync<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the settings according to the picture below\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1723913 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image001.png\" alt=\"Ableton live MIDI controller settings\" width=\"439\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image001.png 439w, https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image001-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>When the APC40 mkII is set up properly, Live&#8217;s session view will have a red box around the active tracks.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1723914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"Ableton Live session view\" width=\"870\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image002.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2014\/09\/image002-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[65887,115938,67198,74675,34738,58080,53648,34739,74677,74676],"storecat":[],"itemids":[65718],"manufacturers":[33165,33151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the My Akai APC40 mkII isn&#039;t working in Ableton Live. page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/my-akai-apc40-mkii-isnt-working-in-ableton-live\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Akai APC40 mkII isn&#039;t working in Ableton Live. - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Support for the APC40 mkII was added to Ableton Live as of version 9.1.3. 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