Ableton Forum

i have to say, i used to love Soundsnap, the interface is good, the quality of material can be good BUT:

their pay structure sucks now.
you have to subscribe. the bane of ALL of us now, but fine.

what SUCKS is you get a certain number of downloads per month and if you don't download them you ...

(thanks for the responses, Gary!

i use Live a bit unconventionally for theater, where there are hundreds of sequential scenes,
so music production and performance peeps kind of look at me funny. such a wide open program usually though!)

i worked around the issue because i was able to copy my Scenes from v7 into the LiveBrowser,
then counterintuitively drag the new scenes into the OLD v6, then save a v8 from that..

(i couldn't drag from v6 to v7 to save a v8, but i guess backwards worked!)

i'm still unsure of what was going on to ...

garyboozy, this only works for certain sets in my project folder.
for example,"GP workshop 6" and "GP workshop 6b" will drag into the master list of "GP workshop 7a". BUT where the series of scenes i need resides is in "GP workshop 6c".

and THAT one will load for a drag, but present a circle with a ...

my latest theory is that i got caught between Operator/Compressor upgrades between versions.

i went through and upgraded all my instances of Operator/Compressor/Simpler in both sets.
made two attempts to copy/paste and drag/drop. no luck yet.....

my problem is, i work in Scenes (and lots of them) and i need to copy a group of,
let's say, 100 (named) Ableton Scenes from a Project (A) for a sound design for a play into another Project (B) that already has work in it from other rehearsals..

i USED to be able to copy/paste a group of scenes ...

what are my options for Midi Show Control (MSC) in Ableton?

i know Bome Software makes a translator and QLab can translate, but it seems natural to me
the Live (or Max For Live) would provide a robust implementation of this. as a Live sound designer
in live theater i sort of take it on the chin a ...

i've used Ableton extensively on hundreds of live theater productions in small and large houses for the past seven years, all over Los Angeles, Portland OR, New York and London.

Ableton Live has served me and the productions very well.

as Live was first engineered as a rock-solid playback platform ...