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I find it incredible that there's no default groove to be applied to MIDI clips. After using Ableton for non-live music production for a decade, I've recently started to explore using it live, and I can't understand how people use it without a global swing/groove that's automatically applied to reco...

What are "drum tabs"?

FWIW, DrumCore has lots of jazz drums, especially the add-on packs. If you want MIDI, the KitCore Deluxe package should have all MIDI loops they have.

The problem with littlejim84's old trick is, you get a comb filter if you sum it to mono. For "mono compatible" stereo widening, use something like the PSP Stereo Pack tools http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/tools_and_meters/psp_pseudostereo/ http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/tools_and...

This file's name


becomes this in Live8



I hope that's only a bug.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.5, Live 8.1.4.

Thanks for the tips, that's very interesting. I actually hadn't checked Live's video features at all. However, I'm really only interested in the Session View, because if I wanted to work in an arrangement-like view, I could just as well stick to Cubase or Sibelius or something. The arrangement view,...

I sometimes take a song as an inspirational "base track" (say, a James Brown tune that has a lot of energy), play MIDI instruments like drums, bass and synths on top of it, and finally remove the base track, which gives me something that's completely my own stuff, but with a feeling and en...

if you are a session musician then yes but for your own tunes - you'd know them inside out forever You maybe remember, I don't. :) I play by improvising and it's difficult to remember how _exactly_ something goes, no matter who wrote it. I improvise a harmony and ten seconds later I don't know what...

what's wrong with just memorizing it? I think the reasons for wanting to write and read notes for things instead of "just" memorizing everything are too numerous to list. :) Btw, saying "just" doesn't make it any easier. ;) You know, "just earn a billion dollars and move to...

Yes, newest version of Live 8 on Mac. I think the guide page is quite clear on the naming. If your set is called "My Set" and the project folder is "My Set Project", create a folder "My Set Lessons" inside the "My Set Project" folder and create a text file cal...

The Lessons hack seems to allow all sorts formatting, including TIFF images. http://www.ykismusic.com/temp/Live8SetNotesHack.png A real score view would of course be nice, but I'd be quite happy with an editable "Lessons" view with a possibility to copy/paste graphics (without having to sa...

Yeah, I thought about using the notes feature, but I couldn't find a way to keep it visible in a practical way. The lessons text trick looks interesting, thanks. If there was a common clipboard format for inter-application copy&paste of MIDI data, I could for example use Sibelius as a musical sc...

Hi. I like to have polyrhythmic MIDI clips that repeat in their own timesignatures like for example a 7/8 clip on top of straight 4/4 beat. The problem with this is that if the 7/8 clip was played to a scale, say, C major, and the background's chord progression modulates in different keys or modes, ...

Hi. New user here. I've been using Live 8 for about a week now, and it's great for improvisational music-making. I especially enjoy the way I can do all kinds of stuff in the session view, without having to look at a timeline of a "song" or a "project", and the music keeps playin...