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I think enough people here use Ableton Live to warrant it having its own thread. This thread is for questions, comments, and tips about the Ableton Live music production software. If you have no idea what Live is and what you can do with it, I suggest you check out the Ableton website at https://www.ableton.com or watch this youtube video. Ableton Live is mainly geared towards the electronic music community, but you can easily record and produce any kind of music with it. I love Live. I've used a lot of other music production software, and Live feels like the most organic and intuitive production environment I've used. Producing music in Live feels more like playing an instrument than using computer software, and that's I've always been looking for in a DAW. I spend more time creating and less time thinking about what I'm doing. Live is also an interesting choice for performing music. You can use Live as a DJ utility if that's what you're used to, or you can use it to launch individual musical components to create entirely new music on the fly. Live is amazing at keeping everything in time, and lets you focus on being creative. I consider myself an intermediate Live user, but I'll be happy to answer any questions I can about Live. You can download a month long free trial from the Ableton website.
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2009 22:24 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:48 |
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Why don't you see for yourself? The month long trial is free and has all the features unlocked. I think that it's great at all of the stuff you asked about. Sidechaining is a breeze, WAV files are the format it exports in, setting up a send is incredibly simple, and it supports VSTs. Live handles audio just as easily as it handles MIDI; very easily. Check it out, it's definitely worth the time to see if it's right for you.
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2009 23:47 |
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Dolphin posted:I have a question. I'm totally new to computer music, and I recently downloaded the trial of Ableton live to fool around. When I try to use any of the samples, though, the sound is delayed, distorted and glitchy. My first thought was I didn't have enough RAM, but upon checking I've got plenty of overhead. Is the problem that I'm using a lovely onboard soundcard? EDIT: Okay, here's what you need to do. Open up Live. Go to the help tab. Click on "Help View". There will be a pane that pops up on the right of Live. Follow the steps in "Learn how to set up your audio hardware". That should help you out. OMGWTFAOLBBQ fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jun 5, 2009 |
# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 02:34 |
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Harry Hood posted:man why use anything else live loving rules, surprised there's not already a thread
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 02:45 |
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prom candy posted:I noticed I get considerable delay when using real instruments on Live. Is there anything I can do about this or is it a case of "you have a revision A Macbook, you need a macbook pro"? mezzir posted:Are you using ASIO? Also try disabling anything not necessary, even sometimes everything but a metronome while you're recording.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 05:16 |
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AndysADinosaur posted:Well, this p.o.s. laptop just isn't going to cut it.. I imagine my first step is to get a new one, anyone have any recommendations/guidelines? I'd like to be fairly future-proof, but I'm not sure how much money to expect to spend. I'd really like to keep it under $1000. Any suggestions?
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 05:20 |
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Terrible Horse posted:
Something that might help you is to set up sends to handle effects like reverb and delays if you're using the same settings on them. You can have one instance of the device instead of one for each track. Another is to freeze and possibly flatten tracks. This renders them into audio with the effects on them, taking the load off the CPU. To do this right click on the track header and select freeze from the context menu. To flatten it do the same procedure after flattening, but be aware that you can't undo a flattened track.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 05:57 |
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I use a MacBook with similar components and I don't have any real latency issues. I concur with vas0line's analysis that it's most likely an issue with the latency settings your using. Open up Live. Go to the help tab. Click on "Help View". There will be a pane that pops up on the right of Live. Follow the steps in "Learn how to set up your audio hardware". This will walk you through setting up everything so Live runs as smoothly as possible.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2009 17:39 |
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Gorilla Salsa posted:What's the most RAM usage you guys have seen? The computer I'm using has 6GB, which is way too much for most stuff (I've only ever seen it use 3.5GB at once), but I have a feeling that I might need to up it to 12 if I get Ableton...
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2009 00:34 |
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Guitar Center has this going on: "Purchase Both an Akai APC40 and Ableton Live 8 Between May 30, 2009 and June 30, 2009 and Receive $200 Cash Back via Mail In Rebate!" If you're sitting on the fence I suggest taking advantage of this.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2009 23:10 |
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Happy Hedonist posted:After using Sonar for 3 years and ignoring Live, I just have to say HOLY poo poo! Ableton + Monomachine + Machinedrum = love! It's going to take a few months to get used to this, but god drat I've had some great improv sessions already. I'm sold.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2009 00:03 |
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http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=48922&highlight=sweepable+crossover This thing rocks, check it out.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2009 04:41 |
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EMUpirate posted:I've been using Live 8 for about a month and I absolutely love it. I have a question about automation though. If I'm recording with arrangement view and triggering clips in session view. I have my effects going to the master, I'm using stuff like beat repeat and filters. After i finished random "on and off" triggering of effects and exporting my audio it just turned on all of my effects and added them to the final mixdown. Am I able to record automations that way or is there a better solution to what I'm trying to do. Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I'm still new to it.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2009 20:21 |
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EMUpirate posted:Yea, it's working correctly now, today was really the first day I'd played with automation. Sorry I didn't word it more clearly, I wasn't even sure how to word it. I was using like 4 different effects in the master effect box, playing with them while triggering stuff in session view. For some reason the MIDI automation track never started.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2009 04:06 |
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prom candy posted:I just got my M-Audio Axiom 49 as an upgrade from my Oxygen8 in the mail today. Does anyone know where I can download Live templates that make good use of it. Failing that, anyone want to just make recommendations on how to get the most out of a decent MIDI controller? Usually I just assign knobs and stuff as I go, but I feel like I'm missing something because it seems like people have much more advanced uses for their controllers and don't have to spend a ton of time on each new project setting them up.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2009 18:06 |
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thunderthief posted:It's easy as hell - you just go up in the top right and click the little midi button, click the one you want to assign, and move the slider around. I'm doing this out of my head without the program in front of me so there might be a step I'm missing but it's seriously like 1 - 2 step process to assign anything to any control.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2009 22:24 |
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magiccarpet posted:Can anyone recommend some good reading for getting started with Ableton with a focus on live triggering down the line?
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2009 20:12 |
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prom candy posted:So is this not possible?
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2009 22:08 |
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colonp posted:Thanks again dudes.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2009 07:32 |
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k0konutz posted:Can you learn how to be creative?
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2009 06:00 |
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I just use my ears for that kind of stuff. I always draw in an exponential curve anyway because it sounds more natural, if it's just a linear point to point glide it sounds weird. : /
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2009 22:31 |
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Made with, of course, Ableton Live. http://soundcloud.com/kevinrothi/string-theory
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2009 01:40 |
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The Cleaner posted:I'm thinking about making a shift towards ableton as I'm mainly into writing electronic-based music. However it seems like its main sell is the ability to record complex and structured automation on the fly in long complex jams with midi/loops/samples. Download it, try it, see if you like it.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2010 07:27 |
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I tell everyone who starts out in Live to read Live 8 Power. Read it cover to cover and you'll know what's up.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2010 03:33 |
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Mister Speaker posted:I'm having a bit of an annoying issue that worries me a little (depending on the root cause of it). I recently got the 8.11 update, offloaded my loop libraries to an external FW800 drive, and connected an Access Virus TI 2 to my system (via USB, still using my MBOX II Pro as my monitoring interface though) - all around the same time, so the issue must have something to do with one of them.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2010 02:00 |
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Project Lithium posted:how hard is the switch from Reason to Ableton? I've just been getting used to Reason 4.0 but really want to convert.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2010 06:51 |
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Yoozer posted:http://www.ableton.com/skibeatz
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 19:39 |
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Psychedelic posted:Weird question -
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2010 06:13 |
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FatalTheGod posted:There's so much great info in this thread! I've been reading through it the past few weeks since I knew I was going to be getting an APC40, so thanks for providing so many good tips and such in the thread, really helpful with getting used to Live and all it has to offer.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2010 05:54 |
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"Many several"? gently caress, I fail at grammar. Anyway, here, look at this. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/09/25/ableton-live-6-crossfader-curves-live-wiki/ I think "dipped" is the one you want. As for the muddled sound, that's most likely due to "masking". Use the EQ3 or some equivalent plugin to remove frequencies in the tracks to "make room" in the mix. I hope this helps.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2010 17:26 |
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Want to learn some tips for Collision? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1o85KfLfnc
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2010 02:18 |
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Hey, what's the best reverb plug out there? I'm not a fan of Live's native one.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2010 02:35 |
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Okay, how about one that I can use in Ableton natively?
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2010 02:55 |
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Aether is looking like it's the winner. It's almost exactly what I was looking for.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2010 19:53 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCx5L3kOoRA
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2010 03:58 |
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Project Lithium posted:Alright, I just picked up Suite. I haven't even installed it yet, but I had a question about rewire. I have a couple of songs I like quite a bit, and somebody in this thread said to use rewire to "bypass reason's lovely mixer."*
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2010 04:39 |
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Project Lithium posted:I'm waiting for NI Komplete to arrive.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2010 05:45 |
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Get the book "Ableton 8 Power". Feel free to thank me later.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2010 07:23 |
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Random track I cooked up in Live!
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2010 06:53 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:48 |
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I have no idea what the pedal you're talking about does, but if you're looking to process your bass with a plugin I suggest NI's Guitar Rig plugin. I'm a guitarist, not a bassist, but IMO this poo poo is bomb.quote:15 supreme-sounding guitar and bass amps OMGWTFAOLBBQ fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Feb 14, 2010 |
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