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Well both those posts have valid points.

You could sit at a piano and get something useful out of it, with no practice, but to master it would take years etc etc etc blah blah blah.

In my post I said it was "good old fashioned fun" and it certainly is, and I would 100% say it has enabled me to do ...

What ages are you working with?


(And good luck with your workshops, I hope it all goes well!)

I like the way you can pull wires out of the back of modules and switch 'em around. Its good old fashioned fun, but whether it really does offer increased soundmaking/patching/routing possibilities (at least ones that make a difference) is another matter.

I bought Reason 3 and Live 6 at roughly the ...

I'm gonna give that a go later.


Many many thanks.

Hi gang

I'm a newbie to this (still) but have 2 questions.

1. Is there a sort of "global follow actions off" button or functionality somewhere? I love the idea of firing AL6 off and using the "follow action" feature to add varying degrees of random behaviour, but I also like the idea of clicking ...

Many thanks Dave I'll try that when I get home from work...

Hello everyone

I messed up my installation and then put stuff in the wrong libraries, so my presets and samples and things are all over the place. Can anyone tell me the correct directory path for them, so I can put them in the right place and point Live 6 in the right direction?

To give you an ...

There's always a grey area with this kind of stuff - if I was living in the gutter writing "f*ck The Man" kind of songs, and then The Man said, "Can we use your song? We'll give you ten million for it" guess which I'd do?

I'd take the money and then start writing "f*ck The Boss of the local country ...

Well I've uninstalled Cakewalk and now Live 6 is back to normal.

I think it was all to do with Cakewalk's shared plug-ins folder, because when I tried to load Live 6 I'd get the splash screen and the little bar at the bottom left would say what it was doing. It would say "Scanning VSTs" or similar ...

Oh one more thing - I have uninstalled and then reinstalled Ableton Live 6 with no joy... I could try just doing the same with Cakewalk but its a lot of hassle for what should be an easy thing to solve.

Go on. Where and how do I do that, my 2004 posting friend?

At the moment I can get into Live through Cakewalk and run it as a rewire slave but thats (almost) useless for what I want to do.

I don't know what I've done, but if I open Live 6 from its shortcut nothing happens.

The only way I can get Live 6 to load is if I open Cakewalk Sonar 6 and add Live as a rewired device, but then it accepts no MIDI inputs, makes no noise etc.

I've obvioulsy messed things up with Rewiring stuff ...

rentanutta wrote:

elektrovert wrote:

stinky wrote:do you know the muffin man?

the muffin man?

The muffin man!

Do you know the muffin man that lives on drury lane?

Yeah they do act differently - in FL6 there is no abrupt cut-off.

I will definitely give Midiox a go as that seems to be the best solution.

Many thanks you for your help.

Thanks for the help folks.

Yes, I'm using a 17(?) year old Roland D10. Thing is, I don't have this problem with FL 6, the sounds continue after releasing the keys just as they should... Which makes me think the problem lies within Live and not the keyboard (unless of course the keyboard midi issue ...