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Thanks Tarekith,
i had been looking at the nanoKeys2 - korg - for something easy portable like this - but the qunexus - and the car driving over it - seems incredible -
are you glad you have the Qu rather than the K- version? do you use any of the extra bits on the Qu??

Many thanks for taking the ...

Hello,
for those who travel
with laptop/ipad and a small keyboard (mpk mini for example),
what do you use for your keyboard/controller to protect the keys and knobs from getting smucked
with various pushing and pulling of a bag to a trunk, overhead storage, etc.

and if you stick it in a bag that ...

You are WAY overestimating the importance of the Library.

In this case, the only thing which is special about the Library location is that it defines what is visible in the special Devices browser.

It has absolutely nothing to do with what sounds you can and cannot use in a set.

There are other ...

quoting longjohn's hack

"What's different in Live 7: The new Library location drop-down menu makes it slightly easier to install future packs to locations you have chosen as libraries. This also makes it easier to use different versions of the Library - for example a slimmed-down version on your ...

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76772

Thanks longjohns - you are always so helpful in bringing the closest thing to a solution for many of these issues.

this is great to know as a sort of workaround.

It is, as anyone must admit, alas, a tedious hack rather than an actual solution ...

Well we're up to 6.10 on LIVE with 7 in beta

anyone know if in 7 you can set your own path for EIC or any other packs you want to add and not have on your main (laptop) drive?

with thanks

I have no problem keeping my live library on a different drive, than my main drive.

I simply copied my library to another drive, then changed the settings in the preferences.

done simple as pie.

quit yer bichen

I have not been clear enough:

The desire is to keep the main library from ableton ...

This has been discussed before, and i was hoping 6.0.5 would provide this: alternate locations (apart from the main library) to store samples etc. 6.0.5 doesn't seem to have come to the rescue.

It's great to have the core working set of samples on the main dirve, but especially for those of us ...

Ah!

Ok, i'm on an intel mac - dang - didn't even think of that.

That must be the issue.

Thanks

mc

In the first tutorial of the computer music special issue, the article says download MDA stereo and download SSL LMC-1.

First, MDA stereo is only available as a vst plug-in. Ok, i put this file into the VST folder in /Library/Audio/Plugins/VST (this is mac osx 10.4.8), restart live, make sure vst ...

Have downloaded and run the installer for SSL LMC-1 plug in.

The installer placed the SSL LMC-1.component in the /Library/Audio/Components folder.

However, when launching Live, the plugin doesn't seem to show up in the plugins list.

THere are a bunch of other plugins that are installed that show ...

DJ VAKIS wrote:I think 5.400rpm for reading is ok.

Yes, i think so too. but what i'm hoping is that someone with actual knowledge of whether or not such a set up is optimal will chime in.

I'd like to hear some clear rationale as to why 5400 or 7200 is most appropriate.

thanks again
mc

The faster the beter,espesialy for recording

Thank you, but i'm not asking about recording: i'm asking about using sample-based instruments - and would like to understand WHY RPM is necessary or not in this case.

Who knows? some software can't take advantage of faster seek times on a drive, so ...

So there is one hack to get your EIC off your local hard disk and onto an external drive along with all those other huge sample libraries (http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52383)

but how FAST does the external hard drive actually need to be? Assumining you have a usb2 or firewire ...

Amaury has kindly shown me how to get around this problem for now, so I'm gonna link the topic so that there are instructions for anyone who needs EIC installed seperate to the Live Library. In the future there will probably be an install dir option but this should do the trick for now. And at ...