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Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 12:37 am
by Seda
wayoftheworld wrote:yeah, if this happens when you open a new live set you may want to report it to ableton. if it happens when you try to load a set it's just referring to files that have been moved since the projects last save. if this is the case it's easy as relocating the file on your hd and dropping it back into live.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:18 pm
by krispy
Seda wrote:Are you opening a particular set? Or does it happen no matter the set?
It happens when I first open Ableton and am presented with a blank project
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:19 pm
by krispy
JJAMUS wrote:noob problem...
whenever i bring a bassline with a wobble in from my vst to my midi clip it doesn't sound the same... it sounds sort of "digitized" and stretched out. it's not completely distorted, but it's not the intended sound at all. other bass patches without a wobble work... idk what the problem is, maybe it's god telling me not to use wobbles, heh.
anyone know what i'm talking about/know a fix?
I know this happens if you are using a c r a c k e d version........
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 4:06 pm
by wayoftheworld
krispy wrote:Seda wrote:Are you opening a particular set? Or does it happen no matter the set?
It happens when I first open Ableton and am presented with a blank project
try a reinstall. if that doesn't solve it contact ableton and report the bug.
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 4:26 pm
by Seda
wayoftheworld wrote:krispy wrote:Seda wrote:Are you opening a particular set? Or does it happen no matter the set?
It happens when I first open Ableton and am presented with a blank project
try a reinstall. if that doesn't solve it contact ableton and report the bug.
Very true. Reinstall should clear it right up. If not, you've got a bad copy. The solution would be sending you a new download authorization. Don't freak out! You'll be using the best program in the world very soon haha.
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:40 pm
by Subside
If anyone is running ableton on windows 7 do you know where the userconfig folder is I can't seem to find it anywhere and I have to drop something in there because I am trying to turn my padkontrol into a step sequencer..
edit; figured it out..
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:16 am
by creeptown
hey guys just having this problem recently, when im trying to bounce tracks to audio (WAV format) they are undreadable in anything but ableton? and cause my computer to go haywire when i try and open them in itunes or something
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:00 am
by contakt321
creeptown wrote:hey guys just having this problem recently, when im trying to bounce tracks to audio (WAV format) they are undreadable in anything but ableton? and cause my computer to go haywire when i try and open them in itunes or something
I have never had this problem ever, sounds like something is corrupting. Maybe reboot or re-install?
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:24 pm
by krispy
Is it possible to glide the midi of two different channels together?
At my drop I have this harsh boomy bass sound on one channel followed by a nice subtle wobble
I would like to have these sounds glide together more nicely, anyone know if this is possible? Or have an idea...?
At the moment both sounds are midi files
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:03 pm
by contakt321
krispy wrote:Is it possible to glide the midi of two different channels together?
At my drop I have this harsh boomy bass sound on one channel followed by a nice subtle wobble
I would like to have these sounds glide together more nicely, anyone know if this is possible? Or have an idea...?
At the moment both sounds are midi files
Use volume automation? No way to glide separate midi channels in any program that I know of.
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:18 pm
by krispy
Yeah I suppose volume automation and maybe some filter with a slight overlap of each...
Unless....... I somehow rendered an audio file with both channels together then added the audio file into sampler.... annd.... im not sure where im going with this but maybe if I had the two sounds as one audio file in the sampler i could somehow do it like that
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:24 pm
by Disco Nutter
Maybe render down same midi's of the 2 synths and use clever fades between glides?
Because Ableton's Sampler does not let you glide between 2 different sounds, no matter if you press 1 key from the first sample's zone and then a key from the 2nd sample's zone. It glides just the first one, it doesn't even start up the second one.
Jason
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:31 pm
by contakt321
krispy wrote:Yeah I suppose volume automation and maybe some filter with a slight overlap of each...
Unless....... I somehow rendered an audio file with both channels together then added the audio file into sampler.... annd.... im not sure where im going with this but maybe if I had the two sounds as one audio file in the sampler i could somehow do it like that
Yeah, this could work, could be a weird workaround, just turn Glide on, and turn the number of voices down to 1.
Me personally, I would prob render to audio, use volume automation, and/or EQ automation, I might also try reversing the first note of the new sound, and triggering it before, creating a sucking sound (assuming there is space in the track)
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:59 pm
by darthandbarbie
hey, im moving onwards (and upwards) from FL to ableton. i was wondering if i can take the synth with me, basically i want to use 'wasp' in ableton. ive heard tht u can use fl as a vst as well..
cheers
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:11 pm
by symmetricalsounds
darthandbarbie wrote:hey, im moving onwards (and upwards) from FL to ableton. i was wondering if i can take the synth with me, basically i want to use 'wasp' in ableton. ive heard tht u can use fl as a vst as well..
cheers
yeah you can, i borrowed a mates old comp (he uses FL) and installed ableton on there and when it started it up it showed FL as a vst.
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:36 am
by Pukaz
K I hope someone can help me on this one...
I'm using massive to create my wobbles, and i'm working on a track on which i found a real nice effect...
Thing is; I want to automate the quantity of LFO i put on the cutoff from Filter 1...
So around the cutoff button from filter 1 u got that (green) line when you put an LFO on it, i want to automate this and switch it during the track...
it must be possible but i tried things and rlly don't know how...
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:42 am
by staticcast
Pukaz wrote:K I hope someone can help me on this one...
I'm using massive to create my wobbles, and i'm working on a track on which i found a real nice effect...
Thing is; I want to automate the quantity of LFO i put on the cutoff from Filter 1...
So around the cutoff button from filter 1 u got that (green) line when you put an LFO on it, i want to automate this and switch it during the track...
it must be possible but i tried things and rlly don't know how...
2 ways to do this:
1) Automate the LFO amplitude in the actual LFO section, which is fine if you're not using that LFO for anything else
or
2) Assign a Massive macro parameter to the third control slot under the knob the LFO is controlling, then click the little 'SC' under it so it lights up. Now the control value from the third slot is multiplied, not added, with the first and second control values (check the Massive manual for specifics; I can't remember exactly what goes on)... so if you automate the macro parameter, you're controlling how much the LFO affects the cutoff.
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:45 am
by Pukaz
static_cast wrote:Pukaz wrote:K I hope someone can help me on this one...
I'm using massive to create my wobbles, and i'm working on a track on which i found a real nice effect...
Thing is; I want to automate the quantity of LFO i put on the cutoff from Filter 1...
So around the cutoff button from filter 1 u got that (green) line when you put an LFO on it, i want to automate this and switch it during the track...
it must be possible but i tried things and rlly don't know how...
2 ways to do this:
1) Automate the LFO amplitude in the actual LFO section, which is fine if you're not using that LFO for anything else
or
2) Assign a Massive macro parameter to the third control slot under the knob the LFO is controlling, then click the little 'SC' under it so it lights up. Now the control value from the third slot is multiplied, not added, with the first and second control values (check the Massive manual for specifics; I can't remember exactly what goes on)... so if you automate the macro parameter, you're controlling how much the LFO affects the cutoff.
Thanks for the quick reply man but still my prob aint solved...
The first way to do this is no option cuz than i can automate the amp till it goes to the minimum (no wobble) but i want to go in a 'negative' amp,
(i know it's not possible to get the amp to negative) but with other words I want to switch the quantity of LFO on the Cutoff (in filter 1) to reversed during the song, so the green bar around the cutoff knob is switched till it is reversed.
(to say it very abstractly, i want to modulate that amount of lfo on the cutoff knob that my wobble can go from wawawa to awawaw...)
Your explanation of the second way to do it sounded allright but for some reason that doesn't work with me (did exactly as you said)...
Cheerz
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:17 pm
by Disco Nutter
Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:26 pm
by dizzy035
Hey guys just wanting to get into resampling to make my mids a bit dirtier but i dont understand what ppl mean by hooking up channels and mixers etc.. here is a part of the guide i was following but i dont seem to understand it.
dc_wolftown wrote:
Step 2:
Hook up to a mixer channel, then send this channel to a second mixer channel (FL users just click on another channel towards the bottom of the strip). On the second channel that the synth is hooked to from the first, add CMt bitcrusher and downsample 3-16x (thanks to all the production forum users who pointed this out to me when i posted a few months ago on dirtying up basslines). Then add a chorus. Turn the LFO's off and set the depth/delay/etc to whatever sounds best. Also set the crossover pretty high so only the treble/high mids are being affected. Then add Camel Audio Camel Crusher. Turn the compressor off and set the tube/mech to taste. Add a parametric EQ if needs be to boost the high freqs. Experiment with the chain of these effects swapping them according to the sound. The chorus/camel/eq in different orders should alter the sound quite alot depending on where their placed.
Step 3:
Set the level of the second affected channel with the original depending on whatever suits. Play about with adding extra effects to both channels. The way the second channel behaves once an effect is added to the first is quite extreme in even light application of effects. So its possible to create a whole array of different sounds just from say, adding a flanger/chorus/etc to the first channel, then listening to how much it affects the sound as a whole as it goes through both channels. By now it should be sounding pretty girthy.
how do i go about setting up these channels and such in ableton?
any help appreciated thanks a lot