Questions tagged [ableton-live]
Ableton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows.
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How to adjust the repeat interval and duration for delay effect in Ableton Live?
I remember in Cubase the audio delay effect had parameters where you could dictate how often a delay repeated, and for what duration..
Is there a way of adjusting these parameters in Ableton?
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How to send arbitrary MIDI messages to MIDI track using computer keyboard in Ableton Live?
Is it possible, for example, when the 'H' key on computer keyboard is pressed to send "Hold Pedal ON" MIDI message to MIDI track? And when 'H' key is pressed again to send "Hold Pedal OFF" MIDI ...
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Dual sound cards in Mac OS X?
I have a Lexicon Omega studio but I need 2 additional inputs. I have read about creating aggregate core audio interface, but does anyone have experience of this in mac?
I have now found a cheap mbox ...
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Render Multiple Clips Simultaneously
I used Ableton Live 8 for some dialogue editing for an iPad game and now I'm coming up to the stage where I'll need to render the edits as individual WAVs.
The sounds are very short (quick "oohs" and ...
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Mbox 1 as an audio interface into Live 8 intro is only causing a static hiss
I am running Ableton live 8 intro on an Imac running OS X snow leopard. My audio interface is an original Mbox, when i am recording audio and arm a track, all i get is static on the track and the ...
Greg Ryan
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Adjusting MIDI latency in Ableton Live
When I record MIDI tracks in Ableton Live, is there any way to adjust it so the MIDI notes I record are automatically shifted to their correct positions, correcting for the lag time on my MIDI adapter?...
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How to set "Follow Action" in thirtytwos? (Ableton Live)
When trying to set "follow action" to next loop, there isn't an input field for thirtytwos.
(Time signature is 4/4, grid is 1/32)
Thanks!
Gal Margalit
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How to "Insert silence" - in session view (Ableton Live)?
How can one "Insert silence" in session view - to the loop itself?
(Guess there must be an easier way than re-recording).
Thanks
Gal Margalit
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Lexicon LXP Bug in Ableton Live 8
My lexicon LXP plug-ins have started to bug out in the most frustrating way and i don't know what to do about it. Every time i bounce out of ableton and i return to the sequencer from the export audio ...
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How to manually change BPM of part of clip in Ableton
How do you take from point A to point B inside a warped clip, and change it's BPM from 120 to 140?
Reason is I need to sync a video track with a audio track, video has music with not a constant BPM. ...
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Ableton Live 8 MIDI tracks recorded without a tempo reference. Need export to Sibelius notation software
Having successfully extracted a midi performance from a pc circa 1986, into Ableton Live8, I now have copied each track into its own MIDI file and imported these files into the notation software I'm ...
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When you're mastering, does it matter whether you export your mixdown to a WAV/AIF file first?
In many mastering tutorials, I see that people have exported their mixdown as a WAV file and then re-opened it in their DAW (Ableton in my case). Are there benefits to doing this instead of just ...
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How can I automate/loop signature changes in Ableton?
I'm trying to make a loop which has one bar of 7/8 and one bar of 4/4, but I don't want to have to manually do that (ie right-clicking the Arrangement View and changing sig) to several minutes' worth ...
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KHz and bit depth in HD film and computer playback?
I just made a song for a talkshow we're making. I made it in Ableton Live 48kHz in MIDI. Most of my libraries is recorded in 24bit/96kHz. When I save it out as 48kHz 24 bit it sounds dull. I changed ...
Friend of Kim
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how to lower CPU usage in Ableton Live 8 in Mac OSX 10.6.8
While running Ableton Live 8 after a project gets to a certain size, the audio starts to get a bit choppy and distorted. My levels are fine and is not the cause of the lag and chop.
I have samples ...
Travis Dtfsu Crum
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I'm out of LFOs, how can I put vibrato on my synth line in Ableton Live?
I'm adding a synthesizer line to a recording I'm working with. I've gotten a nice sound using Ableton's Operator FM synthesizer, and I'd like to add some vibrato to it. Generally, this is done by ...
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Ableton Live synths: Analog vs. Operator
I've been researching Ableton Live 8, and I'm wondering, what is the main difference in sound and limitations between the Analog and Operator instruments? I'm looking for an industrial rock type synth ...
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Thoughts on Ableton Live?
Anyone using Ableton for their sound designing and other audio editing needs? I also use PT8, but as of late, I've found Ableton to be a much more intuitive and streamlined DAW that allows to to do ...
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Ableton Live / Osculator / TouchOSC: Send all values to remote control device
I'm using TouchOSC on an iPad to remote control many values in an Ableton Live Project. To translate between OSC (TouchOSC) and MIDI (Ableton Live) I'm using OSCulator.
Now when I startup TouchOSC on ...
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How can I properly use/opmize REWIRE to join Ableton Live 8.2 and Reason 5
I've been having these problems for weeks now and I haven't been able to find a decent fix for it.
If I make a complex track on Reason, and Reason alone and my DSP is not high, and it's overloading my ...
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Mapping Mod and Pitch bend controls to a knob in Ableton?
I'm in between full sized MIDI keyboards at the moment and picked up an Akai MPK Mini to use for the time being and as a travel controller. I love it but it's missing the mod and pitch wheels that ...
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How to Change Pitch Bend in MIDI?
I use Kontakt 4 to play a guitar on my keyboard on my song. So, naturally I use MIDI. I've recorded the whole song a couple of times and it's perfect except for one movement with the pitchbend knob on ...
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Rewiring protools and ableton live to cut sound for picture
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I want to create Tron like sound effects for video in
protools by manipulating the sound layers. I want to send the later of sounds to
Another sampler like plugin and manipulate it.
I tried with ...
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Can I map coarse and fine tempo control to a single MIDI controller in Ableton Live?
One of the nice features of Ableton Live is its quick MIDI mappings. I can enter MIDI map mode and quickly assign an interface element to a knob or slider on a MIDI controller.
I am trying to map ...
Warrior Bob
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Ableton Live - record midi CC data during a live performance?
I'm really struggling with one little aspect of Live that has got me stumped. Suppose I've mapped a number of instrument parameters (LFOs, freq / filters, FX etc) to any number of dials, sliders or ...
Tom Auger
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Ableton Live - Editing / Moving multiple envelope points at the same time as your note data?
When you view CC or other data (such as volume, pan etc) in the Envelope section of your clip window, you can easily select a single data point by clicking on it; you can select multiple points by ...
Tom Auger
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Ableton Live - viewing / editing CC sostenuto data
Hey guys, hope someone knows the answer here. Unable to locate anything in the docs about it. If I record a piano track complete with sustain pedal, and the. Later in the MIDI editor I move the notes ...
Tom Auger
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Digital Mixer for unique art/performance space
I would deeply appreciate some advice for a mixer for our new art/performance space. we have the capability to have 12 inputs into the system, and 12 separate speakers. We would like a mixer that ...
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Would Ableton/NI/Max For Live be considered as professional choices for sound design?
I'm curious to what peoples opinions are on using Ableton software for professional sound design. I'm a budding sound designer and I want to let my imagination go wild with creating and designing ...
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