Ableton Live

Ableton live is a useful tool paired with Madmapper for live action projection mapping.
First I've tried to use a launchpad to playback MIDI so it will trigger presets. But because of the latency issues I just didn't like the sometimes half a second delay (maybe in the future when I can fix the latency problem I'll get back to the launchpad because it gives more control overall).
So I decided to use IAC Driver so I can use MIDI internally. I'm using Ableton live mainly to sequence my mapping. This is because I don't possess any music editing skills yet. But I have the notion what Ableton able to achieve with a person who has those skills.

The making of the MIDI sequencing- 
I've created two MIDI tracks and set them up as follows:

The first MIDI track input | MIDI from - no input.
and it's track output           | MIDI to - IAC Driver Channel 1.

The second MIDI track input | MIDI from - the first MIDI track (1 MIDI)
                                                | Monitor - In
                                                | Audio to - Master

The first MIDI track is being used to make the MIDI itself but because of the MIDI is just the information of the musical notes being used, we won't hear anything, this is why we have the second track. Putting an instrument onto the second track will produce sound of the desired instrument.
(all these information I found is from the Madmapper tutorials)

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