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Okay- i figured it out by trying to hold down or hit a button.

It's not CTR, it's "ALT." This will make the pencil more like a paintbrush of lines instead of choppy blocks... This will allows you to be more precise in those edits...

Here is 1979 and Thirty-Three. Check em out:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemus ... dID=665391

I'm working in Live 4.0. Maybe you have a higher version OR there is some setting that I have failed to enable, but yeah-when I right click-it does nothing. I wish it did. I am used to using the right click a bit in cakewalks MC2...

I know I can change the grid look by zooming OR by hitting ctr + 1 ...

Okay.

I realize there are several or more ways to edit a piece. I was running into problems on a pop piece I did due to vocal spikes at the front. One was huge.

When I used the volume automation, without pencil--it wasn't specific enough to handle it. I tried using the pencil and stretching it out ...

Yes people-you can actually make something besides techno, electronic, dance or beats with Live. :)

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=665391

Out of Element and Sweet Melody were done in Live 4. Pizza Hut Sucks was done in Cakewalk's MC2 and is also fun. Hell-check em all out ...

hey guys,

I am a novice musician and recording dude and was wanting some help on the compressor I or/and compressor II in Ableton Live 4.0.

I've been working on a couple songs with vocals and applied compressor to vocals and guitar.

The Ableton live manual really doesn't tell you much about what ...