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Imagine I search in my plugins folder for "compressor".

A few minutes later i go to a folder of samples to look for something.

Hey, where did all my samples go!?

DOH! "Compressor" is still in the search box.

Is there a fix for this or a setting i'm not aware of?

How likely is it that i'll ...

Windows Ableton user here!

I discovered this one trick off reddit somewhere, okay for a work around for now;

Drag the video into the arrangement view, now render it as Ableton video export. Drag the new video back into Ableton. That should make it run smoothly! I think the only issue is that it’ll ...

Don’t even get me started. For years I’ve not seen anyone request this feature but I’m glad I came across this now.

Ableton’s user experience as a while is extremely clunky, the software barely follows any modern UX laws and the biggest crime is the lack of middle click pan. That’s a very basic UX ...

Great list!
Shame no one’s showing any interest

So I recently learned the trick of assigning a parameter of any instrument to always show on Push 2 screen. That is, I turn the instrument into a group, assign - lets say the filter cut - to the macro of the group, right click on the header and select "Lock to control surface (Push 2)". While that ...

See FL Studio for example. All those features. I like nothing else about FL, but the piano roll is so far and away superior to literally any other one on the market, I have no choice but to use it for creative purposes in some me situations. Even Cubase has a better piano roll.


Agreed. Having ...

My guess is, you just aren't that comfortable/familiar with MIDI editing in Live yet. Most of what you are suggesting is mere preference, so there is no right or wrong answer for those. Breaking the context menu (removing the right click action that has worked universally in Live for well over a ...