The Ableton Q&A Thread

[contakt321]

When you use freezing it's better to convert clips in audio by draging them on an audio track by holding ctrl ( or by duplicate )

instant convert

I like doing that on few midi tracks then save the project on another name to keep the midis if I need them later :p

It's the same as Freeze + Flatten

But yes, I do this too - saves cpu, and also makes things feel slightly more permanent, but you still have a safety net

[Grime Syndicate]

and it seems to lose the actual notes input, though I imagine this isn't a huge deal most of the time. Sometimes though I have a tendency to get a bit complex with the timing and whatnot of ma midi, so could be a headache. Am I doing something wrong, or does it in fact just save the effects chain info/vst info and not the actual notes

[Disco Nutter]

That's why you don't just Freeze + Flatten, you Freeze and ctrl+drag to a new track. This way you save your vst channel and your midi. Just be sure to mute the original one afterwards.

[Grime Syndicate]

But then we still have all that stuff loaded into memory. What we were talking about was flattening after saving to a new project: thereby saving all the old midi data from before you flattened. Purportedly saving all the old midi data i should say...

[Grime Syndicate]

Anyone know why my piano roll disappears sometimes? I'm referring to certain midi clips (and this is a completely different issue than above) that I type notes into initially. They look normal in the beginning. Then, when I click on a different clip (or anything else) and go back to look at them later, the notes appear without a piano roll next to them. They instead have the note information next to them, and the notes themselves appear very thin. This is unfolded. When I press the fold button, it folds normally. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Its not really a huge deal, I just like looking at a piano roll...

[symmetricalsounds]

. They look normal in the beginning. Then, when I click on a different clip (or anything else) and go back to look at them later, the notes appear without a piano roll next to them. They instead have the note information next to them, and the notes themselves appear very thin. This is unfolded. When I press the fold button, it folds normally. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Its not really a huge deal, I just like looking at a piano roll...

try zooming in

[Grime Syndicate]

Nahhh, they look fine horizontally, they're squished vertically... skinny long notes, like this ----------- not like this [] [] [] []

[Gusto]

Is the note ruler just showing lots of octaves? If on the left where the piano roll usually is just reads like C-2 to C8 or some ridiculous amount of octaves then click+dragging right will zoom in vertically (not horizontally like click+dragging the clip timeline).

Sorry if that's too obvious, but it sort of sounds like that is what's happening.

[Grime Syndicate]

That is precisely what it was... rogue clicking got me down!

[Grime Syndicate]

RTFM, yeah?

[Gusto]

RTFM, yeah?

Shit like this is difficult though. If you read it in the manual in passing, you'd probably forget it instantly. And if you tried to search for the problem it would be pretty hard to find the right search terms that would explain the problem. Even after using Ableton for 2 years I still keep the little info window up in the bottom left and read it occasionally when I mouse over stuff. It's given me tonnes of useful shortcuts and options I didn't know about, like this very problem you had.

[Grime Syndicate]

Makes me feel a little bit better... but only a little

[Njamimars]

Just got this DAW, but I just can't get used to it.

[symmetricalsounds]

That is precisely what it was... rogue clicking got me down!

so zooming in yeah

[Grime Syndicate]

yeah...

[symmetricalsounds]

yeah...

no worries silly shit like that happens all the time, it seems the longer you have used a program though the shorter you spending going WTF. in the first year or so i could end up spending 40mins wondering where the fuck all the sound went before realising i got something solo'ed thesedays it's usually just a few mins.

[wayoftheworld]

i saw a tip a while back about defaulting a notes velocity to a certain percentage every time you draw notes in, and i've somehow set it so each time i click in a note, it's defaulted to be very quiet (and the note is very light red, if you get me)

but i can't remember where i saw the tip, and can't seem to figure how to get each midi note to default back at 100 percent or so. i know it's something easy im just overlooking...

[DZA]

i saw a tip a while back about defaulting a notes velocity to a certain percentage every time you draw notes in, and i've somehow set it so each time i click in a note, it's defaulted to be very quiet (and the note is very light red, if you get me)

but i can't remember where i saw the tip, and can't seem to figure how to get each midi note to default back at 100 percent or so. i know it's something easy im just overlooking...

V higher velocity
C Lower velocity

[wayoftheworld]

i saw a tip a while back about defaulting a notes velocity to a certain percentage every time you draw notes in, and i've somehow set it so each time i click in a note, it's defaulted to be very quiet (and the note is very light red, if you get me)

but i can't remember where i saw the tip, and can't seem to figure how to get each midi note to default back at 100 percent or so. i know it's something easy im just overlooking...

V higher velocity
C Lower velocity

nice one

[silkpantsman]

Said id put this here to save cloggin up the forum...tones of wack threads full of nonsense. Im lookin to get a pedal that will work through my MDP and allow me to assign it to midi on the ableton looper. Any1 know of such devices? And if any1 has anything on live preformance in ableton...links...ideas...thoughts...anything at all that might help me...type that shit.