A dry, techy post follows:

Been talking to a potential client, and the topic of Device Mapping has come up. (Device Mapping: that nifty feature that lets you use your bank of 8 knobs to control devices in Live.)

Hidden in the bowels of the Help section of Ableton Live 8 is a handy reference guide for these mappings.  The guide is built into the “Lessons” pane. This can be a little cumbersome in use, so I extracted all the relevant data out of the guide, and re-formatted it in a friendlier format.

Feel free to do whatever you like with these files:
Device Mapping, Word File
Device Mapping, PDF File

Many of my efforts focus on allowing people to stop looking at the damned screen when they make & play music. Staring at a reference manual isn’t much of an improvement, so let’s just call this a baby step.