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pennywisdom posted:I'm having some trouble mapping parameters to my midi controller. When I pull up the map mode, click on something then twist a knob, I'm getting no response. Pretty sure you need to click Remote for the input of the LPD8
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You are so right. Thanks!
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Jun 4, 2010 18:27
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The only thing I would add to Live is the ability to bounce to an audio file a la most other DAW programs. I know I can add a new audio track, set the input to "master" track, and record, but... I can't do that AND record MIDI through another track so I can't actually record live performance 
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Jun 4, 2010 20:29
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Exporting to MP3 would also be nice.
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Jun 4, 2010 20:32
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Lack of MP3 is licensing I think, same with things like Cubase where you have to buy the encoding facility for £15.QPZIL posted:The only thing I would add to Live is the ability to bounce to an audio file a la most other DAW programs. Can you do that in any program? I mean rendering a sound file is pretty intensive on the CPU so doing it at the same time as a performance would require muscular computing power.
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Jun 4, 2010 22:03
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QPZIL posted:The only thing I would add to Live is the ability to bounce to an audio file a la most other DAW programs. edit oh you mean the whole thing, live.. meh. My sound card has a mixer, so I'd probably just keep windows recorder open in the bg and record whatever goes out to the card
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Jun 4, 2010 22:30
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pennywisdom posted:Exporting to MP3 would also be nice. It's not a lot of work to drag the resulting wave file to RazorLAME and get better quality because you can tweak it to perfection. It certainly wouldn't make things go faster. QPZIL posted:I know I can add a new audio track, set the input to "master" track, and record, but... I can't do that AND record MIDI through another track so I can't actually record live performance What if you set it to "Resample"? Also, by holding Ctrl you can have several channels record at the same time, but you knew that already, right?
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Jun 5, 2010 00:30
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Switched to a mac system this week and drat is it nice not having to restart ableton every time i plug or unplug a new usb midi controller in..
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Jun 6, 2010 07:58
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Nindoze posted:Switched to a mac system this week and drat is it nice not having to restart ableton every time i plug or unplug a new usb midi controller in.. I want to make the switch for this feature alone.
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Jun 6, 2010 20:55
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You don't have to restart the mac version? Holy gently caress. I don't know how many times I've lost a MIDI controller during a live show after it got unplugged.
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Jun 7, 2010 01:34
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To be fair, there's no good reason why it doesn't work like that in Windows. At the very least it could re-detect your MIDI controllers when you go into the settings box!
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Jun 7, 2010 08:26
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if this don't convince you to get ableton i don't know what will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39DuuyV5ys
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Jun 7, 2010 14:11
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After watching that video I just might buy ableton suite all over again
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Jun 7, 2010 17:32
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I want to buy a launchpad now. That is bloody *incredible*.
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Jun 7, 2010 19:11
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In a more serious note, I've been setting up Live lately to be a basic DJ setup, as close to real decks as possible, to use with the APC 40. So far I have 3 tracks, 2 decks and a 'crate' group which expands open using midiStroke to map to a button. I have buttons for cue and loop points, and some basic effects. Also a 3 band EQ based on the one at 365 live tips. Having never been a DJ and learning this way, given I cannot afford decks on a whim, are there any 'typical' DJ effects, techniques, that sort of thing I can work in? I shall post the .als if anybody wants it to to play about with.
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Man, I'm so stuck concerning this whole music making thing at the moment  I'm trying to do instrumental songs for so long now, but I never finish anything because I always find the tracks I create totally boring. Also, I've got this weird idea in my head that I can't get out, that songs have to be like intro-verse1-chorus-verse2-chorus-bridge/whatever-chorus-ending, which is super generic and makes everything totally dull. If I don't stick to this though, the tracks become a huge mess ...Strangely, actively listening to music does inspire me, but after five minutes I'm back in my rut. Are there any resources on composing music (doesn't matter which genre, apart from orchestral stuff I guess) on the internet?
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Lewk posted:Having never been a DJ and learning this way, given I cannot afford decks on a whim, are there any 'typical' DJ effects, techniques, that sort of thing I can work in? I shall post the .als if anybody wants it to to play about with. Perhaps this site will be of some help.. http://tarekith.com/misc.html and abletonlivedj.com is good for what you seem to be pursuing and has some beginner style guides stickeyed if you register. Also some article about creative ruts too there (chasing inspiration) for FLX..
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Nindoze posted:Perhaps this site will be of some help.. Great stuff, thankyou. The second one seems far too obvious! I did google search, but not very well it seems. Trouble is I don't really know DJ terms so didn't know quite what to look for !
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Nindoze posted:Also some article about creative ruts too there (chasing inspiration) for FLX.. I'll have a look at that, thanks  I've got a question, I just installed Live on my new MacBook Pro, but on Mac OS X this time (on my old MacBook I was using it under Windows) and I'm wondering about VSTs. I thought VSTs were platform independent, but Live doesn't find Synth1 for example.
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FLX posted:I'll have a look at that, thanks
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Jun 8, 2010 21:32
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Which is a bummer. I cant find a decent alternative, nothing is laid out so simply yet has all the same features and sound quality. Crystal is way too many pages and features I don't need, automat is ugly and non intuitive, and elec7ro doesn't have FM. Someone please find me a good mac friendly synth1 alternative, I'd even shell out a few bucks.
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Fabfilter Twin is a relatively straightforward synth with a good sound, but again it lacks the FM. An alternative might be to try VFX which apparently lets you use windows VSTs on the mac, albeit with some reduced functionality.
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Jun 9, 2010 16:10
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Mental Filler posted:An alternative might be to try VFX which apparently lets you use windows VSTs on the mac, albeit with some reduced functionality. That looks interesting. I managed to import the Synth1 DLL into VFX but I don't know how to get it into Ableton now.
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FLX posted:That looks interesting. I managed to import the Synth1 DLL into VFX but I don't know how to get it into Ableton now. You can't load it directly into Live, you need to route the audio to Live with something like Soundflower.
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Going to have to fire that up when I get home, looks very promising
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Jun 9, 2010 17:26
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I use Vember Audio's SURGE. It's not a simple synth by any means, but the layout and workflow is incredibly easy to get accustomed to. I was making some kick-rear end sounds with it almost as soon as I loaded it up for the first time.
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Alright, trip report on VFX and Soundflower. It was very frustrating, how smoothly VFX installed, how easily synth1 installed, watching synth1 load up perfectly, and then realizing that they don't let you choose your MIDI/AUDIO input/outputs. With some experimentation I discovered that routing MIDI in ableton to the IAC bus would get MIDI into VFX, great now I've sequenced synth1. However, the only way to route audio is to send ALL system audio to soundflower. You cant choose an output in vfx. Sure, you can route soundflower into ableton, but then soundflower is the only input! What now? I can't use any of the inputs from my audio interface, that's what. SO CLOSE yet so far!
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Jun 10, 2010 07:54
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Well that is disappointing. Seems strange they wouldn't implement something as fundamental as inputs and outputs properly. Actually I wonder why they can't do some sort of wrapper like the VST-RTAS one.
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I think it's because their software is designed around their hardware interface, so letting it run PC plugins on a MAC for people not buying their hardware is kind of an afterthought.
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Operator is a 4-op FM synth, so 4 oscillators; but a supersaw uses 7. The option is to either put unison count to 7 or to simply layer one instance of Operator with another. Though Analog is going to be better for this job (you may have to layer even more) since its saw is probably a bit brighter.
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Not that I know of, I don't have Suite; I've got too many other plugins covering for that. Anyway, the reason you still want 7 is because that's the number that works. 3 left, 3 right, 1 center. Layering Analog (or layering anything at all) requires the Instrument Rack. It's basically Combinator - only for Live. You drag an instance in there, pick "Show/Hide Chain List (the 3 horizontal bar icon), select it, Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V and you're done (just make sure the first is set up correctly, so for Analog that means saw waves for oscillator 1 and 2 in Analog). If you want a supersaw, that's 4 instances of Analog (7 saws, 4 x 2 = 8 so just disable oscillator 2 of instance nr. 4). However, Analog has Unison already - but I think that just doubles the sound. That way, you might even get away by using just 2, simply by tuning both Osc 1 and 2 of Analog nr. 1 a few cents down and those of Analog nr. 2 a few cents up. There are a dozen ideas for spreading and panning, but I don't know what the JP8000 actually used. All that's left is assigning the vital controls - cutoff, resonance, filter env and stuff of both the instances to the Macro controls, and then assigning those again to the knobs of your controller. Or you could just buy NI Massive or Sylenth1 and be done with it, too 
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Twiin posted:You don't have to restart the mac version? Holy gently caress. I don't know how many times I've lost a MIDI controller during a live show after it got unplugged. You can always just go into preferences, turn off the controller, then turn it back on.
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:You can always just go into preferences, turn off the controller, then turn it back on. Funny enough, this does not consistently work from PC to PC. It doesn't work on either my desktop, or my old PC laptop.
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:You can always just go into preferences, turn off the controller, then turn it back on. This doesn't work for me, sadly.
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Is there any way in session view to have a track which is independent of the master track? For the purposes of one shot clips which I don't want starting when the scene starts. If you see what I mean. I'm sure there is a simple way to make a clip just not trigger but I can't find it. Also the User Manual is really hard to navigate as a pdf. Why no table of contents?
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I have a resampling question. I know that a lot of sounds like the main synth in Fake Blood - Mars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3QNcec5RE and SonicC - Stickin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jj2wq76Sk Are made by recording a synth, resampling it and chopping it up. I've been trying to figure a streamlined way to do this, because having to export a recording of a few chords as a wav, and then re-importing it seems to waste time. If you guys know of a better way in Ableton, I would be forever indebted.
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Mental Filler posted:Also the User Manual is really hard to navigate as a pdf. Why no table of contents?
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Splinter posted:It's bookmarked  my shameful non-knowledge of Foxit Reader.
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