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Hi, i've been successfully using a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 for my Audio interface duty, but, in the last few months i've been buying many hardware synths (elektron analog rytm, modular synth and a minibrute) plus i have other 3 synts aaaaaaaand in october i'll leave my home because of university and ...

i ordered an Analog Rytm a couple of days ago and it should be on his way. I choose it indipendently from the fact that Elektron instruments are difficult to use (who said that?), i don't think they are more difficult than other instruments. You have to start with your mind ready and not thinking ...

One of the things that interest me is doing remixes of some songs from my favourite artists. But how? I'm not interest in those remix where you take a small piece of a song, loop it than take another and mix stuff with no brain. I would like to take a song and then do things like former NIne Inch ...

Hi, i was playing my guitar in Live with the amp inside live and some effects. Then i decided to close the project because i wanted to do something else and Live crashed. I reopened it and then this message came: impossible access to file database: database disk I/O error. i press Ok and now Live ...

Shift Gorden wrote:Thought so, mate. Just wanted to check.

Okay, in your export audio/video section under the first dropdown "Rendered Track" you got "Master" selected?

Just checked, yes i have master.

Shift Gorden wrote:Here's a silly question - humor me, mate. If you disconnect your bass station from your set-up, and play back your Ableton project file, you can still hear the hardware synth's audio, right?

Yep, absolutelly

Hi, so, i finished the track i was working with the bass station, another hardware synth and some vst i want to export the project as an audio track so i can send it to my cousin who wants to hear it... i go to file press "export audio" in wav file etc, then when i play the wav file i can only hear ...

Create an audio channel in Live that receives External Input from the channels your synth is connected to on your interface.

Are you using Arrangement View or Session View?

In Arrangement, you would arm Only the channel with the audio (receiving synth) and activate record during the parts.

In ...

How is your synth making sound? What is the audio output of your synth connected to?

i've connected the output of the synth to the audio interface and also the midi out of the synth with the midi in of the audio interface, the audio interface is connected to my monitors and with the usb to the pc ...

Is the meter dots or is it a volume?

If the meter is dots (with no volume control), then it is just telling you that it is sending midi notes when the meter bounces.


The meter, sorry my english musical vocabulary is not that vast :) so, how can i record the audio if i have already recorded the ...

With the midi signal, it triggers the synth to generate sound.

The sound of the synth might go out to your mixer, or it might go back into Ableton Live.

If it does not go back into Ableton Live, you can't record the audio that is generated. If you do not record the audio you've generated, then ...

stoersignal wrote:did you record the audio or midi?
sounds like that either you haven`t selected the correct input on your interface or you just recorded the midi

i think i've only recorded the midi signal and no audio. i'm reading the manual etc but i cannot find a solution

Hi, i was working on a project in Live 9.6 and i decided to add some Bass Station 2 to my percussion base created with Live. I saved the preset of the sound that i created on the synth and the started to record the track, i saved the track and then disconnected the BS 2 so i can use another hardware ...

Thanks for the tips :) i really like all aspects of Ableton Live, i find really inspiring and thats a great thing for someone who want to compose something :)
another question, i was listening an interview with Charlie Clouser (former NIN keyboard) and he used to do lots of remixes for Rob Zombie ...

Hi, i'm new to the Ableton live workflown. I'm coming from Reaper and i'm used to that workflown.. i've tryied Live for a couple of days and i like it very much. I like to compose different genre of music: i do a lot of industrial (a la Nine inch nails), scoring music, new wave and so on.. is it ...