MIDI Control of POD HD500X from Ableton Live

[sixstringsk]

Hello,

 

I posted this recently on the Ableton Live forum and haven't gotten a response yet.  I was hoping there might be others here with some thoughts.

I have been testing Ableton Live 9 and have a question I'm hoping someone from the community can help with. I want to use Live to play backing tracks while automating parameters of my Line6 POD HD500X. I can already do this with Logic Pro, but I want to use Ableton Live for it's performance capabilities. 

I have a session loaded with audio tracks and a MIDI track to control the POD. I use an iConnectivity interface and it is setup as my output MIDI device within the track. The channel is set within Live and the POD. Within the MIDI clip that I created in Logic, it has Program Change and CC messages. The CC messages are 51, 52, 53, 54 and 58. These messages correspond to various foot switches on the POD. I also have the POD setup to launch the appropriate scene within Live.

My process is as such:
I select a patch on my Pod that has various foot switches engaged. It varies per song. Each patch has one of the switches designated for scene launch, and it is mapped to the appropriate song. Upon pressing this foot switch, Live plays the correct song and the MIDI clip takes over automation of my Pod with changes at the appropriate time.

The problem:
As I said, when I load a patch on my POD, the state of the board has various foot switches engaged. For some reason, Live will change the state of some of the foot switches with random, unwanted behavior. For example, I could have an envelope for CC 53 drawn within Live at 127 velocity. The POD will undesirably disable the corresponding foot switch (FS3) at scene launch. However, if I stop Live and then relaunch the scene, the state of the POD is returned to it's correct state and the MIDI behavior reacts perfectly.

I welcome any thoughts.

Shane

[dakrystal]

The Pod cannot function in this manner, unfortunately.