Ableton 11 Joywheel Functionality in Keylab Essential

Lab KeyLab Essential
#1

I recently purchased it and have been playing around with it in Ableton11.
Using the jog wheel, I got the behavior shown in the image below.

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But what I want to do is adjust the timeline of the track with the jog wheel. Is it not possible to change this?

#2

I was never able to do this in arrange mode, although the mk2 could do it and even set markers when pressing the encoder.

#3

This is the major paint point of the Keylab Essential mk3 in all DAWs for me: None of the DAWs allows you to move the timeline cursor with the encoder.

I can do this on the Keylab mk2 … and I can also do this on my Minilab 3 which even has much less control elements than the Keylab Essential. But since the Keylab Essential is missing a “Shift” function you cannot change the behavior of the encoder :frowning:

#4

I wrote a custom skript for the mk3 that makes the nudge buttons step further (and lots of other things.)
I am not sure if thats the behaviour you want, i use a macro key on my mouse as alt button and the free spinning mouse wheel to quickly traverse the track. (also LES not sure if that plays a role here)

look at it here

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