Digitakt as midi controller in Ableton

Saw a cool (and old) youtube vid of some people triggering effects in Ableton, using the Midi track buttons on the digitakt. Eg triggering beat repeat etc.

I struggled to get this working, then after some searches, remembered I forgot to enable the midi tracks haha. Make sure the midi buttons have a channel assigned to them and enable the knobs, then Ableton should recognise em as inputs.

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