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Hi, when previewing samples from the directory the auto preview is so short — like a fraction of a fraction of a second. Is this a bug? On Live, if you click on a sample's filename, it plays the entire thing until you click off of it. Note's sample preview of playing only a blip of every sample is ...

Hey, so I downloaded an Ableton effect called the Smackos Tape Station. It came as an .adg file and is supposed to work on Ableton 9 or later. I have Ableton Live 9 Lite, and when I try to drag this effect anywhere I get the following message: "This device is not available in this version of Live ...

Hey, I know that I can drag whatever sample I want into individual drum rack spaces, but is there a way to quickly set up a full drum rack with different instances of a single sample, but have each pad play the sample at a different note as they would play in order on a keyboard?

Basically I want ...

Ok I made a new folder to save things in as suggested by The Internet, but i don't understand why this works. Shouldn't Ableton's default save location be the *correct* place to save things? How come when I save there it saves as .als files, loses all my audio, and dumps all the audio in the Samples ...

I had this problem before. Just when I thought I fixed it it's back. All of a sudden two things are happening:

1. My projects are no longer saving in individual folders, they're just saving as .als files.

2. When I open the .als files, they're all empty and missing the audio files and samples ...

I understand what you're saying and I'm gonna try that. I think I figured out another way around it too, which makes sense now and seems simple although at the time I didn't think about it-

After cropping the file it makes a sound file in the "current project" folder, which I didn't realize. I ...

I tried the command + E to insert a break or whatever, then I dragged that to a MIDI track. So far so good. I now have a section of the original file on a MIDI track. When I crop THAT, it works. Except it seems like the information it SAVES from then on, is just a preset. A preset relating to the ...

This is great, thanks! I'm still having trouble with some things. I don't understand why in arrangement view, if I have a long piece of music that I recorded, and I highlight like 1/20th of the song and click "crop clip" or "crop sample" on the bottom or main screen, it doesn't crop anything. Like ...

Hey, I'm having a lot of trouble with sampling in Ableton. I understand the gist of it, but when it comes to saving folders and cropped samples and presets I'm kinda going crazy.

This is my problem:
-I open a sound file in Arrangement View. I mark off the part I want to sample and drag it into ...

Yes I'm pretty sure this answers my question perfectly and I'll try it out as soon as I can. Thank you!

Hey, so I have Ableton Lite 9 and I have a question about using Simpler. Basically, can it be set up to work "MPC style" at all, in the sense that I could play a key on the piano roll or on a hardware keyboard, and have different keys trigger different samples?

Say I sample 6 different bass notes ...

Hey, so about a year ago I bought a Scarlett 6i6 interface which came with Ableton Lite. I didn't get around to using it too often until recently, and I've encountered a major irritating problem. Here's the deal:

I have a PC that's about 3 years old running the 64 bit Windows 7. I'm using the 32 ...

Hey, I bought a Focusrite interface that came with Ableton Lite. I installed the 64bit Windows version. I have a VST (SQ8L) that I'm very fond of, which I believe is 32bit, but my Ableton won't acknowledge its existence. Is there a way around this? Or should I just install 32bit Ableton instead ...