The Ableton Q&A Thread

[Disco Nutter]

Ableton Live's warping IS the most efficient way.

Watch a couple of tutorials on YouTube and you'll get the hang of it.

[symmetricalsounds]

slicing it and sticking the slices into a drum rack will give you more control over timing.

[billybuxton]

Hi
Sorry to bother you with the same problem again but its seriously getting on my tits

Ok yesterday Ableton kept skipping notes in a MIDI clip so today i decided to just use audio clips for my drums
but thats also skipping at random

Iv got 3 Audio channels
1 Hat
1 Kick
1 Snare

The kick and the hat play just how i want
but the snare is very temperamental and does weird shit

Example
I'm just looping a kick snare pattern over and over and it...

1.It sometimes doesn't play.
2.It sometimes plays a tiny amount at the start.
3.It sometimes skips the attack and all i can hear is the reverb decaying


Im using Ableton 7 Suite (Legit)

Any ideas please ?
Thanks

[Steve_French]

when you press play, does a little square in the top right light up? if so, it means ther is a disk overload, prehaps you computer isnt powerful enough? i'm sure you can find some infos if you google 'ableton disk overload'

[billybuxton]

when you press play, does a little square in the top right light up? if so, it means ther is a disk overload, prehaps you computer isnt powerful enough? i'm sure you can find some infos if you google 'ableton disk overload'

Thanks Il check it out now
my PC is quad core with 2g RAM its usually OK...

UPDATE
Ableton's CPU meter was floating around at 8% and it was still F king up

[symmetricalsounds]

what sound drivers are you using?

[billybuxton]

what sound drivers are you using?

ASIO
and im using a Edirol UA/25

[dalvare1]

billybuxton i had the same problem and i had to update my soundcard

[mitchAUS]

I've got the ua-25ex and have no issues with cpu. I'm on mbp with core audio driver but I've used the same setup with asio drivers on my old Toshiba shitbox and ableton ran smooth then. do u have the latest update of ableton? could be a bug. Or reinstall maybe in order?

[billybuxton]

I've got the ua-25ex and have no issues with cpu. I'm on mbp with core audio driver but I've used the same setup with asio drivers on my old Toshiba shitbox and ableton ran smooth then. do u have the latest update of ableton? could be a bug. Or reinstall maybe in order?

Il try a reinstall now
see if that sorts is

[mitchAUS]

and it pays to power cycle ur audio interface. mine can go mental ifi leave it running too long

[hayesj23]

any general tips when arranging drum beats in the playlist window with the grid off? any useful keyboard shortcuts one should know of etc. to make the task more smooth? i was experimenting with it earlier and found working without the grid to be fun but moving clips around did not feel very smooth and it was often hard to move them by small amounts

[symmetricalsounds]

you can't seem to move audio clips on the arrange page with the keyboard, that's why i do all my drums in midi. you can nudge midi notes back n forth by holding ALT and left/right arrow keys. to move audio clips by small amounts seems best to just zoom in and be exact with the mouse, a trackball makes those small precise movements much easier.

[65L]

Hello

just a simple question, how would i route 4 channels to one channel so that i can put effects that will effect all of those 4 channels?

if it matters at all, the 4 channels i'm trying to route are within a group.

thx

[oWLinDaylight]

Thanks Il check it out now
my PC is quad core with 2g RAM its usually OK...

UPDATE
Ableton's CPU meter was floating around at 8% and it was still F king up

Are you running vista or 7? Vista would be sucking up like half your ram. Even with 7 I would think about getting another gig of ram for doing audio processing. Windows 7 idle with a browser open can start to get up around a gig of ram, leaving you only 1 for audio.

And if you have 64 bit windows then getting 2 gigs couldn't hurt

[Airgonaut]

Hello

just a simple question, how would i route 4 channels to one channel so that i can put effects that will effect all of those 4 channels?

if it matters at all, the 4 channels i'm trying to route are within a group.

thx

You actually don't have to group them. Create an audio track, first. Then switch to the Session view. See the MIDI in and MIDI to sections of the tracks? Go to "MIDI to" and click the audio track in the dropdown menu. Do that for all four. Now you can drop effects on that audio track and it will affect all four.

[Of course, this is completely void if I misunderstood "channels"...I just call them tracks?]

[Gusto]

Hello

just a simple question, how would i route 4 channels to one channel so that i can put effects that will effect all of those 4 channels?

if it matters at all, the 4 channels i'm trying to route are within a group.

thx

If they're within a group just put the effects chain on the group. If they're part of a larger group that you don't want to effect all together, then you can send them to a return and under 'Audio to' select 'Sends Only' so that no audio goes directly from the channels to the master.

[nnny]

Hey guys.

Here's the deal, when I try and change the velocity of my notes it doesn't seem to work. I change the velocity, and during playback everything plays at the same velocity nothing's changed.

Any ideas?

[symmetricalsounds]

Hey guys.

Here's the deal, when I try and change the velocity of my notes it doesn't seem to work. I change the velocity, and during playback everything plays at the same velocity nothing's changed.

Any ideas?

screenshot of the sampler/synth settings?

first thought though is that velocity isn't turned on, for example in simpler it's in the bottom right hand corner



in this picture the velocity is set to 50%, the higher that value the more sensitive it is to velocity changes under the midi notes.

[nnny]

Wicked mate exactly what I was looking for! What an idiot I am

Many thanks!