The Ableton Q&A Thread

abs · Post by **abs** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:59 am

yeah it's a new laptop, tonnes of gigs of space

i've emailed the ableton support team, this is well annoying, really need to be working on some mixes

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:42 am

Alright Abletonians, I've got a question for you:

Is there a way to play a midi clip that is triggering a sampler, and also simultaneously play the sampler with a midi keyboard, while NOT recording?

Right now, I've got a loop going, and can't simultaneously hear the loop and play the sampler without recording...

PLEASE god tell me there is a way to do this.

Sorry for the ignorance. Demo'ed live a couple of years ago, but I think I programmed everything?

Gusto · Post by **Gusto** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:44 am

nowaysj wrote:Alright Abletonians, I've got a question for you:

Is there a way to play a midi clip that is triggering a sampler, and also simultaneously play the sampler with a midi keyboard, while NOT recording?

Right now, I've got a loop going, and can't simultaneously hear the loop and play the sampler without recording...

PLEASE god tell me there is a way to do this.

Sorry for the ignorance. Demo'ed live a couple of years ago, but I think I programmed everything?

Yeah. Just make sure you don't have overdub turned on (OVR button in the transport controls up top).

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:59 am

Wait, I turn off, the OVR, and turn on the track record enable? Oh wait. Yeah. Maybe it is coming back to me. Thanks!

Gusto · Post by **Gusto** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:14 am

nowaysj wrote:Wait, I turn off, the OVR, and turn on the track record enable? Oh wait. Yeah. Maybe it is coming back to me. Thanks!

Yep, arm the track and as long as global record or overdub are not on, it won't record midi data to the clip.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:36 am

Haha! As a friend of mind would say (in a sing song voice) "embarrassing!"

Really appreciate it.

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Side question:

Do y'all think live 9 will be a huge departure from 8, or will it be evolutionary? Whats up with the apc40 in Live 9... will there be a new APC for 9 with new functionality? In your opinions of course!

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:16 am

I'm not sure about 9, they seem to be taking their time. It's been what... three years already?

I sure hope they address a lot of the little things that have been bugging people for a couple of versions. But I don't think 9 will be a radical change from what 8 is. Just more features and bug fixes. But I may be wrong, who knows? We'll find out when they announce it.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:26 am

It has been so long, probably been occupied with max for live, hardware integration... but it has been long. Maybe a total rewrite? Any educated guesses on the 9 release date?

drake89 · Post by **drake89** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:12 am

so is there any particular guide to rewiring into ableton or suite 8? Ive got suite 8 and reason 4. I've had a time trying it and some said it was not necessarily easy, so anyone got tips?

thx skywalker sound

RandoRando · Post by **RandoRando** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:20 am

nowaysj wrote:It has been so long, probably been occupied with max for live, hardware integration... but it has been long. Maybe a total rewrite? Any educated guesses on the 9 release date?

i think they are gonna wait to see what bitwig has to offer and try to outdo them.

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:12 pm

Here's a quote from Ableton regarding Bitwig. Someone posted it on the Ableton forum, may or may not be real, can't say.

It seems to me that we're not doing anything differently than Bitwig. Just like them, we spend a lot of time working on the next version (the first in their case), and when we feel we're ready, we announce it and then it takes a little while before the actual release. For 3 years, Bitwig said no word about what their software would do, just like Ableton has always done. I see little difference here!

Believe me, we're not asleep! A lot of us would just love to tell you guys about Live 9, because it will be a kick-ass release. It's a little frustrating for us as well, but that's the game. On the other hand, Bitwig just announced their software, which they've been working hard on for a long time, so it's only fair that they get their share of attention now.

However you're right on one point: we do welcome competition! We've been sitting alone in our market segment for a very long time, and there's nothing better than competition to wake you up and release the good creative energy, and boy do we have that in store! We're very much looking forward to competing on features, user benefit and innovation, but please bear with us if we choose not to play the Internet-buzz game, because it's not in our values and we're working hard on stuff that matters instead.

Let's wait for Bitwig Studio to be released, and may the best product win!

Carl

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:31 am

Jelly partners,

Uhm, so I've got a drum pattern with a hat line that I'd like to groove quantize, like I'd like to just groove quantize the hats.

Is there anyway to do this in ableton? I know if flstudio, you can select just your hat line in the piano roll, and then quantize just selected notes. Seeming like not possible in ableton? Thinking the easiest way is just to make another miditrack with the hats in there, group it with my main drum track, send the midi from the new hat track to my main drum track, and then quantize the new hat track... is there anyway easier? Again apologies for the ableton newbishness.

e-motion · Post by **e-motion** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:38 am

nowaysj wrote:Jelly partners,

Uhm, so I've got a drum pattern with a hat line that I'd like to groove quantize, like I'd like to just groove quantize the hats.

Is there anyway to do this in ableton? I know if flstudio, you can select just your hat line in the piano roll, and then quantize just selected notes. Seeming like not possible in ableton? Thinking the easiest way is just to make another miditrack with the hats in there, group it with my main drum track, send the midi from the new hat track to my main drum track, and then quantize the new hat track... is there anyway easier? Again apologies for the ableton newbishness.

As far as I know, that's the only way :S not optimal.

mks · Post by **mks** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:32 am

nowaysj wrote:Jelly partners,

Uhm, so I've got a drum pattern with a hat line that I'd like to groove quantize, like I'd like to just groove quantize the hats.

Is there anyway to do this in ableton? I know if flstudio, you can select just your hat line in the piano roll, and then quantize just selected notes. Seeming like not possible in ableton? Thinking the easiest way is just to make another miditrack with the hats in there, group it with my main drum track, send the midi from the new hat track to my main drum track, and then quantize the new hat track... is there anyway easier? Again apologies for the ableton newbishness.

You can do normal quantizing by selecting the notes in the piano roll, but I'm not sure about the groove quantizing. I will have to test this out. It seems like you should be able to. But yeah, if you can't, just put your hi-hats into a different clip and groove quantize that.

symmetricalsounds · Post by **symmetricalsounds** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:56 am

well you can just select and quantise notes in the clip, groove quantising you need to open the groove pool, select groove you want apply to clip and then you adjust level of groove quantisation. reading manual on the groove function in ableton 8 is worth doing, that all got a massive overhaul in this version.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:50 am

Don't want to apply to the whole clip, just selected notes.

JTMMusicuk · Post by **JTMMusicuk** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:09 am

just highlight the notes and right click quantise if thats what you meant, or just turn off the grid and make your own groove

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:19 pm

Meant groove quantize specific notes. Not available on right click quantize.

dickman69 · Post by **dickman69** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:12 pm

this gonna sound dumb as shit, but i have a couple questions about midi controllers

1) everytime i turn on ableton i have to toggle on/off my device before it's recognized, way around that?

2) how do you switch your controller between synths, i can't figure out how to switch it from the last one i created,
ex] i make a drum pattern w/ impulse and then make a synth w] analog, but now i can't play the impulse with my keyboard, it just plays the analog

these been bugging me a lot, just inconvinient really, any help would be great

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:17 pm

You have to click that bottom little button underneath the solo button. It is the record enable button, it should turn red when engaged. This will send midi to that channel. Just make sure that your OVR button is not on at the top of the interface (Yellow), if it is, and live is playing, you'll record into that channel.

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