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dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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I'm ready to make the switch from Reason to Ableton. But one thing that discourages me every time I attempted to do this was the drastically different workflow. I never use any of the step sequencers or patterns in reason, which I am assuming is a major thing in Ableton. Also in reason, I would just use the pencil tool, draw out a measure in the sequencer, double click that, and pencil in each note. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this in Ableton. This is probably the silliest of silly questions.

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dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Where can I get more sounds for my drum racks in ableton? Preferably free, but I don't mind shelling out a bit of cash.

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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How do I drag an effect onto just one specific track on my drum rack? I can't for the life of me figure this out.

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Mandals posted:

I'm playing with this literally right now, too. I think you can drag the effect onto the slice you want in the little drum grid at the bottom of the screen.

I tried that, but it plays the effect for all the tracks in my drum rack still.

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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RivensBitch posted:

I'm running VMWARE with spaces, so I have win7 64bit running on one space with winxp running in another, and then Ableton running in leopard and it works pretty smooth. Touchpad works fine in all of them.

poo poo, did you add more RAM or something? My macbook pro can't even handle a Windows XP Vmware and Snow Leopard OS by itself, let alone Live.

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Super obvious ableton question that I can't figure out:

So I export a song from Reason to a wav. I then drag the wav file into an audio clip in Ableton. The original tempo is 108, I set ableton's tempo to 108 as well. But when I play it back in ableton, it sounds super sped up and pitched up. Help!

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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So I have an audio clip. Why is it that when I transpose it down and then I do "slice to new midi track", the new midi drum rack keeps the original pitch? How do I change it so that the new midi track will preserve the pitch that I shifted it to?

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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I plan on making a live set in Ableton. But the problem is, a lot of my songs are sequenced in Reason. I tried doing the tedious task of exporting each different loop in Reason that I have as a .wav and importing that into Ableton. However, this method is not perfect because it cuts the audio right off at the end of the loop (no room for reverb tails, delay, etc so it sounds choppy).

What should I do???? I want to jam out in the almighty clip view to my songs damnit

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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I cannot for the life of me figure this sound/effect here:

http://byebyeblackbird.bandcamp.com/

Liste to the kick drum, that little kick fluctuation that happens every 5 seconds throughout the whole song.

How do I go about achieving something like this? I was thinking about something sidechained to the kick but I have no idea.

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Popcorn posted:

Three stupid questions about Live.

1. Is it possible to reduce the grid to a higher res than 1/32? For drums in particular I often want the 1/64 you get in most DAWs.

2. Likewise, is it possible to get things to snap to grid like in other DAWs?

3. I'm having a really frustrating problem this evening where my plugins have stopped opening their config menus when I click the wrench icon. Why the hell is this happening? Other sessions don't have the same problem, it's just this one session. I've tried copying the tracks into a new session but the same problem occurs. Is the window hiding somewhere?


1. Ctrl+1 or Command+1 will make your grid smaller (up to 1/2056 or something ridiculous like that)
2. Ctrl+4 or Command+4 will turn on/off snap to grid.
3. Can't help you with this one, sorry man

dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Is there a way to make it so that when I press a pad on my midi controller, it turns a device on but right when I let go of the pad, the device turns off?

Please tell me there's a way without using a MIDI translator.

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dookie
Aug 28, 2003

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Jirolico posted:

I couldn't find the answer online, so here goes.

I'm programming some hi-hats for a song and I'm just messing around in session view. If I play the hi-hat on my MIDI pad, I hear the sound when I play it back. However, if I copy an earlier hi-hat hit and paste it to another grid, the play back doesn't play the audio for it. I can see the hi-hat hit, nothing is playing though. What's going on? The hits in question are the last two in the screenshot.

Keep in mind I'm a complete newbie. This is my first week of using a DAW.

http://i.imgur.com/FX1Om.png

not really sure what you're asking, but you can make a single midi track and stick a drum rack on that so then you wouldn't have to use a new track for each individual drum sound. it'll make your life a lot easier.

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