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by ObtuseMoose
Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:00 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Im recording the click track... WHY?
Replies: 2
Views: 3765

Re: Im recording the click track... WHY?

Make sure the "Enable Only While Recording" option is checked in the metronome dropdown menu. If that's not checked, the metronome sounds when recording AND when playing back.

Hope this helps.
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Moose
by ObtuseMoose
Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:59 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Inner/Robotic Type Voice Effect??
Replies: 7
Views: 12717

Re: Inner/Robotic Type Voice Effect??

Ken Nordine was a master of the inner voice, although it's not really "robotic". Listen to "Think a Thought" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-cJxIoTfcs It's basically a band-limited, almost telephone voice with the lows and highs filtered out. If that's what you're going for, tr...
by ObtuseMoose
Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:56 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Bking up Patches from external synth
Replies: 3
Views: 684

Re: Bking up Patches from external synth

You don't say whether you're on a Mac or PC. In either case, if you just want to back up and be able to restore the patches (that is, not edit them outside the synth), any sysex librarian type of program should do. On my Mac, I use Snoize's SysEx Librarian to back up patches on everything from my No...
by ObtuseMoose
Sun Sep 13, 2020 4:17 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Ableton Electric Keys Get Louder With Repeated Notes
Replies: 1
Views: 1010

Re: Ableton Electric Keys Get Louder With Repeated Notes

Sounds like you have a sustain pedal plugged into your controller and it's either stuck "on" or set to the wrong polarity. That instrument will give exactly the behavior you describe when a properly configured sustain pedal pressed (or the corresponding MIDI control message is sent.) If yo...
by ObtuseMoose
Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:01 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Very very basic Sound issue
Replies: 4
Views: 1115

Re: Very very basic Sound issue

Make sure you have the metronome turned on. It's the button just to the right of the time signature button, the one with two circles, one empty and one filled in. See section 16.4 (Recording in Sync) in the Live 10 manual. https://cdn-resources.ableton.com/80bA26cPQ1hEJDFjpUKntxfqdmG3ZykO/static/ima...
by ObtuseMoose
Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:18 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MIDI Controller plays wrong note
Replies: 8
Views: 8110

Re: MIDI Controller plays wrong note

According to the manual you can find on the internet (do a search for "i2-control 61 keyboard manual"), that keyboard has a transpose function that would produce exactly the problem you're seeing. It says: With the # and b keys you can increase or decrease the notes by halftones. If you wa...
by ObtuseMoose
Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:17 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Ableton! The GUI lags are still NOT SOLVED! How long are we supposed to wait for the fix?
Replies: 63
Views: 77219

Re: Ableton! The GUI lags are still NOT SOLVED! How long are we supposed to wait for the fix?

I don't know why I'm taking an interest in this, but I've tried a few things. There's something weird about the snare sound in the drum rack in track 2. Delete that snare from the chain (don't just mute it, delete the Snare chain from the rack) and the lag is gone. I went further. I deleted all audi...
by ObtuseMoose
Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:43 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Ableton! The GUI lags are still NOT SOLVED! How long are we supposed to wait for the fix?
Replies: 63
Views: 77219

Re: Ableton! The GUI lags are still NOT SOLVED! How long are we supposed to wait for the fix?

OK, here is the debug project, guys: I would be grateful if you could record it on video so that we can see how much variability this issue has. Sorry, I couldn't record a video, but I did try your project on my system and I DID see the problem when arrangement recording. That would be super frustr...
by ObtuseMoose
Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:13 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: The chance of zero latency
Replies: 38
Views: 8539

Re: The chance of zero latency

Fun fact: if you play a synth (or any instrument) through an amp and are 10 feet away from the speaker, you've got almost 9 ms of latency between the time you hit a key and when you hear the sound, just due to the speed of sound in air. (Plus or minus depending on air temperature, altitude, etc.) --...
by ObtuseMoose
Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:07 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: drone /ambientquestion?
Replies: 10
Views: 3170

Re: drone /ambientquestion?

I feel compelled to mention Angstrom's technique of using insert effects with Ableton's looper to generate beautiful drones with slowly varying pulsations. It takes a little work to get it set up, but the results are golden. He gives step by step instructions and a demo video on his website. https:/...
by ObtuseMoose
Tue Jun 12, 2018 12:44 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: I wish someone other than ableton had session view
Replies: 10
Views: 1989

Re: I wish someone other than ableton had session view

... ableton starts De-selecting the scene im trying to record into when i hit a drum pad. ... this just started happening one day when i fired it up. I havnt changed any settings or anything. ... I have tried 2 different drum pads, (Akai MPD218, Akai MPK249) and the funny thing is, if i use the pia...
by ObtuseMoose
Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:46 pm
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: My Best/Worst Purchases
Replies: 45
Views: 17173

Re: My Best/Worst Purchases

Best: - U-He Diva: I can't seem to get a bad sound out of it, so inspiring. - U-He Zebra: I don't care for the UI, but it's SO versatile and can sound great (and is less CPU hungry than Diva.) - Arturia KeyStep: The keyboard I grab most often for quick sessions with both software and hardware synths...
by ObtuseMoose
Fri May 26, 2017 3:15 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Midi Workflow
Replies: 6
Views: 2594

Re: Midi Workflow

There is a cool thing you can do: Just drag the midi window to full size. To exit just use SHIFT + TAB. That way you can simply double click any midi or audio clip, edit in full size and won't have to drag the window small again. For me that was a lifesaver when I found that shortcut. I always wond...
by ObtuseMoose
Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:33 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: I don`t like the velocity changer in the Pianoroll. Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 3117

Re: I don`t like the velocity changer in the Pianoroll. Help!

... Now, it can be really messy, to adjust that velocity, by draging that velocity fader. ... But if you neeed a certain tone of collor, with a certain brightness, an you can only get it on lets say 73, but your cursor jumpes arround for 20 sec, till you randomly hit that " 73 " ... Is th...
by ObtuseMoose
Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:43 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Step sequencer synced with the played key
Replies: 4
Views: 2225

Re: Step sequencer synced with the played key

Hi Community ! I own Live 9 suite, ... I want to program a step sequencer which base note will depend on the note played on the keyboard, as it does for an arpegiator. Hi Flios, Check out the Max for Live "Mono Sequencer" (Max for Live > Max MIDI Effect > Mono Sequencer.amxd). On the far ...