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soo, basicly what iv done is made a quite a good tune, spent a few days on it sort of thing, but after my say second day of being on it, my demos month free trial has run out, and im so far with this tune, id be gutted if i lost it, what im asking, and its a big ask, is could sumone inbox me there ableton password and username? so i can log onto it, save it, and then ill log back out, its just so now, if its saved this far i should be ok to open it at a mates house who has ableton?,

lmao does that make sense? please sumone help me, you can even change the password like 5 mins after iv logged in, its just so i can save it

You can't save the project as a live set .als or whatever for later use (it should already be saved on your hdd)? Or at the very least export it as stems?
I doubt you'll find anyone willing to do this though, and technically might be against all kinds of TOS if you care.

So Live works as cloud software now? Meaning projects etc are saved to their servers or what? If not, I think you'd need a serial and challenge/response code, not just a username/password.

You can't export or save in the trial version if I'm not mistaken. Also, there's no username and password for you to "log into" ableton. You have to have the serial number of the actual product and if someone gave that to you then you could possible steal the license.

om my computer, it says 'you are currently running live without an authirozation, so saving and exporting are deactivated' , it then gives ma a place to 'long in' on ableton.com, with the software iv supposedly bought, im just asking if i can use someones for 5 mins, save my project, then log off, (they can even change there password after, so i cant use it) :/

It makes you log on to ableton.com with your username and password and then enter in your serial number that came with ableton that then it will authorize it for you. So either way you're going to need a serial number. Just buy it, ableton is a fantastic DAW. If you're in school you can get a discount too.

Did you not save it at all when you were working on it before your demo ran out? You can still open anything that you saved while demoing, you just can't save new things once the demo is over.

But if you didn't save it at all while working on it and just decided to now (and discovered that the demo ran out) you are kind of out of luck unless you buy it for the 250 or whatever (if you are a student) because not even nice people are going to risk losing their $250-500 program to help a name without a face. Im not trying to be mean here, its just the truth.

As a last resort, get a notebook and a pen and write down all of the plugins and effects chains on all of your tracks and any of their values that are changed from the default setting. If any of the plugins are not native ableton you can still save presets inside them as well. Instead of writing it you could take a screenshot of each one by pressing "print screen", then using the paste command into a paint file. Im kind of rambling but Im just saying stuff as I think of it. If all of the plugins and other channel settings are the same as they are now it will sound the same.

This reminds me of when I was using the Fruity loops demo as a little kid and would leave it open in the background for days to weeks so I could keep working on songs.

Coolschmid wrote:Did you not save it at all when you were working on it before your demo ran out? You can still open anything that you saved while demoing, you just can't save new things once the demo is over..

You can't save at all in the trial of ableton

You can get it fully functioning for 30 days where you can save. After that it goes to the mode where you can't save.

I have an idea. Send me the .als file and I will export the stems for you

OfficialDAPT wrote:I have an idea. Send me the .als file and I will export the stems for you

how can i save the .als file to send to you, if its disabled? :/

try to freeze a track, then flatten the track, then drag it into the ableton library folder somewhere. I think that should give you a bounced out wave file of each track you do it to.

The only real way around this is to buy the thing.

Almighty Alias wrote:try to freeze a track, then flatten the track, then drag it into the ableton library folder somewhere. I think that should give you a bounced out wave file of each track you do it to.

The only real way around this is to buy the thing.

yess man, were on the right track, this will work, but its more the fact i want to keep the project and all the saved automations and stuff, anyways here the track iv made, just trying to work this out haha, (i realised i could record it on audacity)

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this is what is saved
Soundcloud

and this is what iv done to it>> FULL
Soundcloud

Last resort: use screen recording software and also take a shitload of screenshots haha.

Coolschmid wrote:You can get it fully functioning for 30 days where you can save. After that it goes to the mode where you can't save.

This is what I did, when I didn't buy it straight after too they emailed me saying I could have another 30 days. So do this, no ones going to give their ableton details to someone on here unless they seriously trust them already.

just solo rach stem, have audacity running and just record those stems in audacity, voila you suddenly have wav stems that you can save and arrange

This is a trick to getting stuff to keep working, if you are running Windows, go into your computers clock setting and switch the date back to before it expired. It's unethical, but works.

Swelly wrote:This is a trick to getting stuff to keep working, if you are running Windows, go into your computers clock setting and switch the date back to before it expired. It's unethical, but works.

The FBI should be at your house soon.

Mmhmm. Except I live in hawaii. No FBI. No government.

you are still a part of the united states of america, foundded by cchhrriissttoopphheerr ccoolluummbbuuss in 1492!

haha yeah. the ol' rapist of the new world