Ableton Live and MC8 Commands to Selected Tracks

MIDI Control
#1

Hi All,

I’ve gotten some basic functions of the MC8 working with Ableton, and have worked my way through the Morningstar youtube (The Best Ableton Foot Controller? - Morningstar MIDI Controller - YouTube) on Live. But some functions continue to cause problems. I know the basics of midi mapping in Live, but can’t find this particular feature in manuals or youtubes. Here goes:

On the clips pane, I would like to use one MC8 button to (toggle) arm/disarm the already selected track.

Also on the clips pane, I would like to use one MC8 button to (toggle) start record/stop record the already selected cell.

I can easily map a designated button to a designated track, but this would rapidly use up buttons. I would rather set up a context-sensitive method to select and record using the MC8. Any ideas, either at the MC8 level or at the Ableton Live midi mapping level?

Thanks!!

–Adam

#2

Just following up with more info, I just looked over all of the Ableton Live Keyboard Shortcuts in the reference manual. None obviously led to goals I have described above. I may be misreading the keyboard shortcuts, or perhaps keyboard shortcuts is not the way to go. Any help would be appreciated.