Ah, yes, I get your meaning now! Thanks.
I’ve been so used to triggering audio clips recently that I didn’t immediately think of setting it up with MIDI clips as you describe.
As it happens, I have both Ableton and Bitwig DAWs (and a few others) here. Any chance you could post (or email) me .als and/or .bwproject files to kickstart my setup and save me some time?