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Like so many other people, I can't get this thing to work properly under winXP. I tried all of the workarounds in this article:

http://thoughtyard.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MOTUUltraLiteTechReview

but it still goes crazy several times a day.

So I'm going to have to sell this thing and go back to ...

Under WinXP, this problem seems to occur in one of two ways:

1) Randomly. Out of nowhere, on an idle machine, the box goes nucking futs.

2) When opening another audio app, such as iTunes or quicktime player, while Live is opened. I have no grounds for speculating here, but if I had to guess it ...

More sightings of this problem, this time on MacOS:

http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=561918&page=0&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1#Post561918

I'm going to sell this thing, take the loss, and get something that actually works. It's too much of a pita having to reset the box several ...

I have the same problem as shown in the photo in the original post. I use a Dell Precision 690 workstation with winblows XP SP2. In the bigbluelounge thread, someone has noticed that the CueMix console will report an error while the problem is happening

I have experienced this problem often, and maybe I can shed some new light on the issue.

When this happens to me, it is ONLY when I am using the top note on my 73-key keyboard as a MIDI tap tempo button, and I'm tapping the beat to keep live in sync with my drummer as I am recording him into a ...

Apparently the "clip grid" has to be "highlighted" with the little box around it

This is true, and it is quite a pain. It seems that manipulating a volume control in the track mixer or doing many other mundane things changes focus away from the clip grid, and if a clip is launched via midi it ...

IT WORKS!!

Thank you, Ableton!!

Damn, there really is NO viable workaround. Navigating through clips using the arrow keys (or MID I controllers mapped to arrow keys) just isn't going to cut it.

I am glad to hear that they are working on it, but:

- My inquiries directly to Ableton about this have gone unanswered (I am a paying ...

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. The recent post about Kid Beyond using MIDI translator made me realize that perhaps a work-around is possible using keyboard mapping to trigger slots, instead of MIDI mapping. Set up a set so that different keys on the computer keyboard trigger clip ...

Agreed. The ability to select a clip upon MIDI launch is an essential feature. It is present in Live3. I tried Live4, but they had removed that feature (without mentioning it anywhere, to boot!).

Fast forward to the Live5 beta. I was a beta tester, and was thrilled to see that it was back. But by ...

rab wrote:
There's an option in the preferences to select a clip upon launch. This will do what you need. If
you need to select a clip that isn't currently being recorded, trigger its play slot. When it starts
playing again (depending on what your quantization is), it will be selected (though in ...

Absolutely agree this is needed. How about a flexible midi mapper buit into Live itself to do what we now have to do with midi-ox/midi-yoke?

Yes, some more control over MIDI would be nice (for instance, limit the range of a MIDI
controller). But let's not get ahead of ourselves - much of the ...

It would be nice if Live allowed users to map a MIDI message to the "delete clip" function. I
currently have to lean over to the computer and tap the "delete" key after fudging it during
a clip recording. I realize there are 3rd party utilities (MIDI-OX, controlAID, etc) that can map
keystrokes to ...