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You use return tracks: https://www.ableton.com/en/live-manual/12/mixing/#return-tracks-and-the-main-track

Put a reverb there at 100% wet and then use each channel "send" control to stream to audio signal to the "return" track where the reverb is, this way you can put several instruments under the ...

A lot of people in music production use trackballs, the kensington expert mouse is a popular model, but the orbit and other brands as Nulea also have good options.

Why a trackball? well it puts less strain on your wrist, specially for those that spend a lot of time editing. And second it uses less ...

manasseh wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 8:51 pm

Those reported values are in the same ballpark when compared to measurements from an app like oblique audio RTL Utility.

Interesting, in my experience they were never that close, RTL utility always gives me higher values.

Thanks a lot for conducting this well thought and well documented test, the data confirms most of what I have assumed: PCI better than USB, NVDIA drivers aren't good for real time audio applications and the GPU render feature is still in its first stages, hope it matures.

One Question you didn't ...

Personally I wonder why there isn't a video section for good youtube etc. tutorials etc? There are so many out there with the rise of influencers as a way to monetize youtube etc. it would be cool to see other users suggestions for good videos.

Personally I would want to see a user library ...

A dark theme, this is the only page I visit where a blast of white burns my eyes.

Ableton's sound engine is really really bad.


False, all DAWs' "sound engine" sound the same., FL Studio's own manual has a section about that (https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/app_audio.htm), any difference is due to user error.

There are ...

With all the unfolding events in the USA, and in the spirit of Europe's digital sovereignty, this should be a matter taken seriously by Ableton. I mean, it's an European product that relies exclusively on American operating systems to work.


well at least MS is the lest hostile of the tech ...

The old structure was hierarchical and could only be used from the top down.

The same categories still exists but they are properties of the objects instead of just an arbitrary hierarchy. Each user can refine their system with or without hierarchy.

The same results can be achieved, but now it ...

I disagree, from Push 2 Ableton started to make their HW in house so I doubt they bought a HW company, seems redundant. Also Push 3 brought MPE so a Seaboard while different might be too much of a competitor to Push 3 and cannibalize sales.

In my imagination Move is an interface for translating ...

Which manual will be the priority for updates? The online one or the PDF? like which I should expect to contain the latest updates and be corrected more frequently?

This is unacceptable. I like the new tag system. I really do. But it's far from perfect, I have over 950 meticulously Folder-placed plugins that is integral to my workflow, and I know that I am not alone in this.

You really, really need to make the legacy Folder-based Plugin organization an ...

For those not following this developments since 2018 Steinberg has been pushing developers to abandon VST2, but they recently released a new Licensing Agreement with more clear clauses for those developers intending to use the last version of the VST3 SDK: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk ...

Which is your audio interface, what drivers are you using?

are you using an audio interface? if so which?

Some stuff that can fix performance: configure energy settings to max performance, check you have any GPU drivers up to date.