Ableton Forum

Cool, thanks for the replies.

So you're saying there's no "standard" or anything that's usually done by the pros?

My g/fs been getting into a lot of Paul Van Dyke tracks lately. Anyone know if he uses the side chain, or the down-kick up-bass method?

I usually don't make 4 on the floor electronic music... but I was interested in trying to make a few house tracks. I know how to sidechain but I was curious about how the "typical" pulsing sound is made. If you lay a kick on each down beat and a bass note an 8th note long on the up beats, ...

When you have a set playing in session view and you want to start recording on another track, is there a way to limit the length to one bar? Let's say I have a one measure 4/4 beat playing. I add a midi track with operator and want to record a simple baseline. I click the arrow, and it gets ready to...

I just got Comcast internet and cable installed into my new apartment this week... I checked out On Demand music. They had a Live video by Tiesto. So having heard so much about him... but never hearing him, I decided to check it out. What I saw was a pretty decent video show, and a VERY generic DJ. ...

I would recommend the xiosynth or the x-station, both from novation. the x-station has a built in synth, faders, knobs, pitch bend, modulation and xy pad. the xiosynth has all the above, a better a synth, but doesn't have the faders. both have a built in good quality ASIO soundcards with phantom pow...

I have an old Pod 2.0 (that i record with) and a Vetta 2 head (that I gig with), and have spent a lot of time with Guitar Rig 2, Amplitube 2, and Waves GTR plug-ins. My personal experience is that nothing touches Line 6 as far as emulation... ESPECIALLY for any type of distortion. I would never reco...

I just have a general question about the send/return function in Live. I haven't really used it much before, but I'd like to learn a little more about it. 2 Questions... 1. If I was going to use a reverb on a send/return channel... would I have the wetness of the reverb turned all the way to 100% an...

My guess would be that your computers built in sound card is receiving midi messages and thinks that it should be playing the notes.

Check your MIDI preferences.

I know that fruity loops has something similar to a speak and spell. You can choose different voices and everything.

I used to have a speak and spell VST, but it was basically crap.

I'd recommend either Fruity Loops or like someone above said, just getting a real one.

That's a nice workaround Longjohns... but is this the only way to do it? I frequently run into the problem that I automate volume on the mixer, only to realize later that I need to turn down the overall level of the track. As of now, the only workaround is a utility plug. Otherwise, I have to highli...

This is not possible in Live 6.

A workaround is to make sure you render each song when your done, and keep it in the project folder with the set. Then you always know where the latest version is to preview.

My experience so far with racks has been pretty limited...

I've never messed with the 8 macro knobs in the racks, can anyone give me some examples of cool things you can do by assigning the macro knobs?

Sorry, I was mistaken about the driver version being 2.0... it's actually 1.1. Here's the link.

http://www.novationmusic.com/downloads. ... d=1&type=1

I think I mean like a crossfade, but I'm not entirely sure what a spectral morph is. I think a crossfade would control all the notes simultaneously, while I would want each note to be handled individually. I guess I could try something with crossfading, resampling, then using simpler. That kinda suc...

Go to Novations website, there is a driver on the site, I believe it's 2.0.