Hey guys i am trying to connect my Roland JV - 1080 just for kicks , i got cubase 5 to pick it up no worries, but in ableton i can’t get it to work 
, what do i have to do in Ableton for it to pick it up??
cheers guys.
If you go into LIVE’s preferences and click on the midi sync tab you should see your midi devices port’s.
If you highlight track & remote for input & output, that should be you sorted.
If you dont see your midi ports check your midi driver’s set-up on your computer.
Hope you this helps 
5id cheers mate, thank you very much, will try right away
Just connected my roland MC505 groovebox going to muck around with it now ;), see if there are any good sounds i can still grab from these beasts 
Lucky man you have a 505
If you have an external mixer try recording a pattern from your 505 into ableton then back out to your mixer and back into ableton.
One way to get really dirty sounding hats 
Hey 5id your method work to some part it picked up the hardware.
In the end though i had to do it this way.
- created a midi track.
- went to Ableton’s plugins folder and loaded Instrument rack, then inserted into inst.rack , external instrument.
- Midi to:
Mobile MIDI
Ch.1
Audio From:
7/8 (external port)
That seemed to work , just thought I’d do some steps for people in case they ended up like me ;).
Again 5id cheers cause your method allowed me to get some more midi options
505 seemed pretty average to me , but im using the JV-1080 got some good sounds after effecting them a little