The Ableton Q&A Thread

[hurlingdervish]

TIP: Get out of the session view(clip view)..
I work exclusively in the arrangement view now.. I often found myself just making clips but not producing music in the session view..

Hmm, I've seen you give this advice a couple of times now. While it may work for you, the session view is an incredibly powerful part of Live that shouldn't be overlooked. You will be using this part in a live PA setting all of the time. As far as production goes, I've found I can lay out arrangements very easily in the session view and then go to the arrangement view to start doing edits, overdubs and tidying up the overall structure. They both work very well together.

EZ

yes dont avoid session view.

i just fell in love with follow actions...you can write whole songs with follow actions fairly easily, just takes some practice

[notch]

TIP: Get out of the session view(clip view)..
I work exclusively in the arrangement view now.. I often found myself just making clips but not producing music in the session view..

Hmm, I've seen you give this advice a couple of times now. While it may work for you, the session view is an incredibly powerful part of Live that shouldn't be overlooked. You will be using this part in a live PA setting all of the time. As far as production goes, I've found I can lay out arrangements very easily in the session view and then go to the arrangement view to start doing edits, overdubs and tidying up the overall structure. They both work very well together.

EZ

Fair enough..
I tell people to work in Arrangement view starting off just because it so easy to just make loops for hours and not actually produce a track.
But there are so many different ways of using the program that everyone's workflow is different.
cheers

[hurlingdervish]

TIP: Get out of the session view(clip view)..
I work exclusively in the arrangement view now.. I often found myself just making clips but not producing music in the session view..

Hmm, I've seen you give this advice a couple of times now. While it may work for you, the session view is an incredibly powerful part of Live that shouldn't be overlooked. You will be using this part in a live PA setting all of the time. As far as production goes, I've found I can lay out arrangements very easily in the session view and then go to the arrangement view to start doing edits, overdubs and tidying up the overall structure. They both work very well together.

EZ

Fair enough..
I tell people to work in Arrangement view starting off just because it so easy to just make loops for hours and not actually produce a track.
But there are so many different ways of using the program that everyone's workflow is different.
cheers

you should try just specifically making drum loops in session view and saving them for later by dragging them to the browser...i found out that it actually copies the file with it so you can delete the set along with the temporary files and still use that resampled drumloop without having to export them one by one

make 6 variations...drag them....boom, your ready to jam out next time you feel like it

[whineo]

Been messing around with a few projects in Live again cant remember if there is -

a - a hot key to reset all the db meters peak at once rather than clicking each individually - (like shift Z in logic)

b - a hot key to zoom to fulscreen on a highlighted selection?

Mac btw

[notch]

cheers[/quote]
you should try just specifically making drum loops in session view and saving them for later by dragging them to the browser...i found out that it actually copies the file with it so you can delete the set along with the temporary files and still use that resampled drumloop without having to export them one by one

make 6 variations...drag them....boom, your ready to jam out next time you feel like it[/quote]
I used to do that a lot when I first started. Now i just lay out each instrument and go from there. I get way more accomplished if I'm working towards a track.

[86.]

i read the manual, I've read the thread...but can you take screenshots the way I see folks doing with other programs.

[hurlingdervish]

^^^ that should not be happening

unless you entered a midi clip at that point in time


make sure when you record theres nothing on the space you are recording and that wont happen

but it seems like a glitch

that can happen if you copy and past tho...i dont know what the deal is with where it actually pastes, so i just duplicate the clips or notes

[Rickmansworth]

i find myself having to clean it up after every time i record something, there must be an easier way, something im doing wrong perhaps?

To add on to this question... I am always zooming in to the midi and fixing everything that I record, which is somewhat a pain in the ass. Does anyone know if there is some sort of way to make the midi notes automatically line up within the grid every time you record? I know this would affect the way that everything sounds when you are recording, however it would be very helpful!

Thanks

[86.]

i find myself having to clean it up after every time i record something, there must be an easier way, something im doing wrong perhaps?

To add on to this question... I am always zooming in to the midi and fixing everything that I record, which is somewhat a pain in the ass. Does anyone know if there is some sort of way to make the midi notes automatically line up within the grid every time you record? I know this would affect the way that everything sounds when you are recording, however it would be very helpful!

Thanks

I've noticed this....I don't think it can be solved, but I'm no expert.

[hurlingdervish]

edit----quantization------1/16

[Disco Nutter]

To add on to this question... I am always zooming in to the midi and fixing everything that I record, which is somewhat a pain in the ass. Does anyone know if there is some sort of way to make the midi notes automatically line up within the grid every time you record? I know this would affect the way that everything sounds when you are recording, however it would be very helpful!

Thanks

Right click - quantize.

OK, im starting to get my head round live and loving it, but something is nagging me, when i press record and enter a few midi notes from the keyboard, it seems to record double and...shift it back a bit?

Heres a screenie.......

i know its not the end of the world, but i find myself having to clean it up after every time i record something, there must be an easier way, something im doing wrong perhaps?

I blatantly start the recording from the "1" position, why does it say it starts on the "6"??

Cheers.

The notes appearing before your clip are not a glitch. It's called overdubbing. You've recorded it in looped mode and let it pass one time over your recorded stuff. That's why this happens.

[contakt321]

ahh i see, i found that "consolidating" the clip pretty much fixes it with 2 clicks.

edit----quantization------1/16

is that going to quantize everything while recording?

You can have it quantize while recording by selecting Edit > Record Quantization > On

[wayoftheworld]

not having a midi controller i've been having a blast with how easy it is in ableton to map pretty much anything to the computer keyboard.

is there a shortcut to "stop all clips" in the session view? i briefly skimmed thru the manual but didn't see anything -- so i've been finding it extremely useful to map the "stop clips" button to the "0" on my keyboard. sure as hell beats having to click it everytime!

edit: just realized clicking the spacebar will stop all clips

[86.]

alright so I dled the Live 8 update. I've heard more...I wouldn't say bad things...but more like, it's not far superior to 7. But I'm gonna try it regardless.

might leave here early just to do it lol.

[hurlingdervish]

if you dont get any bugs

it IS far superior to live 7

many many small improvements in things that have gotten in my way before

but possibly the greatest thing is having the name of the sample on the notes in the piano roll for the drum rack

and grouping...oh god. mixing down is so much easier with grouping. select all the tracks you want bussed, ctrl g. bam you have a master output of those tracks without sending them all to returns

[86.]

I think they should sticky all the various programs Q&A threads. Makes sense, don't it?

And also....I'm a fuckin idiot. They have STUDENT DISCOUNTS!!!!!!

Is this just Ableton? If so, they are truly the most remarkable people on earth. God bless 'em

[hurlingdervish]

God bless 'em

they can't bless themselves

[psylent]

Check this Ableton editor!
Not actually downloaded the program itself yet, but I've been downloading some Ableton skins that people have made which is free to do and I think the actual skin editing program is free..

http://sonictransfer.com/ableton-live-skins/

One the you've downloaded the skin save it to the following locations depending on your OS..

For Windows users

The Ableton Live Skins folder is located in Program Files\Ableton\Live\Resources\Skins.

For Mac users

The Ableton Live Skins folder is inside the Live application. Right-click (or ctrl-click) the Live application and select Show Package Contents to access the Skins.