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When should you use Arrangement View vs Session View?
I've seen people use Live in so many different ways. That's one of my favourite things about it, it allows you approach things in new ways. I used to use session view mainly when I started out with it,...
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How to improve guitar tone for recording?
In addition to @frcake's excellent answer, I have a few points:
I have been gigging for over 30 years and I still have trouble getting some sounds I want. One solution that most guitarists go for is ...
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How can I change the master BPM in my song without stretching the recorded wav files?
Put the clip in session view, otherwise the playhead will skip around
Turn off warping and Play from a chosen loop start point
Tap tempo for the master bpm to get a rough estimate of song's average ...
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How to avoid acoustic feedback when having heavy vocal effects during a live performance?
The trouble with using compressors live is that they magically transform themselves from devices which reduce the peaks of the performance into ones that turn up the quiet bits.
Your three compressors ...
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Send "Audio To" MIDI Track (or its single channels) in ableton
If you were using either Compressor plug-in built into Ableton, you would be able to select your Drum track in the "Sidechain" panel of the compressor, accessed by pressing the little arrow in the top ...
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Can I transpose a series of midi clips to a different key?
A midi transposition effect should do exactly what you're after. I am pretty sure its parameters can be controlled via automation.
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live-midi-effect-reference/#pitch
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Is there a function to randomize the volumes of a MIDI Clip on Ableton Live?
There is a “Velocity” MIDI effect in Ableton Live, with a patch called “Add some random.” Place this MIDI effect onto the channel that you want to randomize.
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Ableton Live: Zoom out farther than current bounds?
You can quickly drag up the left number 1 (or loop start or length)
then drag up the seekbar (zoom out)
This is similar to the MIDI Notes panel: Length section, which zooms at the same time
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When should you use Arrangement View vs Session View?
The Session View makes most sense when you are using a dedicated controller like the Push in order to trigger scenes.
Check out
to see someone using a Push controller ...
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VST Plugins for creating MIDI Notes (Ableton)
The folks at Ableton went for simplicity. This being said, it turned out to be a sane decision.
If you read through the manual, you'll realize Ableton's piano roll supports step input, "draw"...
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How to improve guitar tone for recording?
As a rule of thumb, closer to the center is trebly , closer to the ring is mellower - more bassy.
Electric guitar recording is a world of it's own, many people go to insane extends to hunt the tone ...
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How do I transfer VST plugins from FL Studio to Ableton Live?
Start Ableton Live and go to the Preferences > File/Folder.
Put all your vst plugins in one folder and scan it, unlike fl studio that allows you to scan multiple folders.
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Ableton CV from track amplitude? Control another track's dry / wet?
What you are looking for is a side chain setup: The gate (or downward expander) is on one track, but it "listens" to key input for the theshold from another track.
Take a look at this video:
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Add multiple kits to Drum Rack?
Other than manually adding pads in at the correct pitches I have found that you can Group 2 drum racks into an Instrument rack, and use a midi pitch effect set to -16 or +16 etc. I think this may do ...
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Ableton Live bypasses 3rd party plugins when exporting tracks to audio
After many headaches I finally found the answer: it has to do with a mismatch between global and export Sample Rate settings.
Here is how to fix the issue:
Go to Ableton Live's Preferences / Audio ...
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Does Using Mic and interface with setting device class MME reduces audio quality?
With high-end (and no so high-end) audio interfaces, you can have hardware monitoring. This kind of monitoring is very low latency, since it involves no digital path.
If you use your PC to provide the ...
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How can I batch remove trailing silence from audio files
I ended up using the following piece of python code:
"""Bulk trim silence from all wav files in the folder of this script."""
import os, glob
import numpy as np
import ...
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Ableton sidechain track to EQ band gain?
One thing you could do is:
Duplicate the layer you wish to do this on
on one layer EQ everything EXCEPT the frequencies you want to duck
on the other layer ONLY EQ the frequencies you want to duck
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How to crossfade between more tracks in Ableton Live?
It turns out that you can actually import Audio From another track -- using a Compressor Sidechain 'Audio From' -- then clicking the blue headphone, preview button.
Not sure if there's a better way, ...
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Ableton CV from track amplitude? Control another track's dry / wet?
If Max for live is an option:
The Max For Live Envelope Follower may suit your purposes if you wish to track audio amplitude for CV another controller.
Envelope Follower: a Max for Live device ...
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Choose between AAX or VST
VST, Ableton doesn't support AAX
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209769405-Supported-Plug-in-formats
Supported Plug-in formats
VST 2 - 64 & 32-bit
Audio Unit (AU) - 64 & 32-bit
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Is it possible to write custom Ableton midi effects?
There are actually quite a few programs that can connect to Ableton that don't require you to understand the vst plugin space. The most popular of which is Pure Data, the open source predecessor to ...
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Is it possible to write custom Ableton midi effects?
Yes, you can write processing in Max for Live. Unfortunately, that's about all I know about how to go about doing that, but it appears to be a GUI-based development environment, so perhaps it's not ...
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Reproducing effects on recorded track, in LIVE performance
Are you planning on running through a minefield with only your hands over your ears as protection, or do you want this with maximum resilience?
Maximum resilience needs two identical computer rigs &...
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How to export individual channels from Propellerhead Figure to DAW?
I'm fairly certain I know what the problem was now.
Figure will always export the current file, in whatever state it was last saved in. This means if you mute 2 of the 3 tracks and export, you will ...
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Multiple midi CC# on one single knob
I think you'll find this page of interest. It's a tool called "Mapulator," which I have not yet used, but which looks like precisely what you're looking for and more, although you would have to draw ...
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Question on re-creating a sound I heard in a pop song on the radio
I tried to reproduce it on Massive.
If you want reproduce a similar sound on Massive, follow this steps:
Choose a wav from one osc
Change the pitch from 0 -> 64.00
Use an envelope to move this pitch ...
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Ableton - How to preview browser clips and instruments?
1) For clips, simply press Right Arrow once the clip is selected, so Down Arrow then Right Arrow will preview .alc files
2) For instruments, simply double-click to load, as if you were going to use ...
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How to fade to silence in Ableton Live?
Why don't you just fade the clip volume directly on your clip?!
(picture from http://www.kentsandvik.com/)
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