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Hi,

So I'm trying to have a 'live keyboard' project in Ableton for band/live use. One keyboard, various instrument racks and chain selectors etc. Lots of different omnisphere instances, as well as other plugins (Legend, Hammond plugin etc). All working nicely until I try and add hardware CC control ...

Hi,

I'm attempting to use Ableton with Beat Seeker in a live scenario, and want to have a click running for myself so that I can ascertain whether Ableton is tracking the beat correctly.

In operation, Beat Seeker disables the built-in metronome once it 'takes over', because it is assumed you would ...

no, I'm trying to use the chain selector (which I can control) to switch where my input MIDI signal is routing to.

MIDI comes in the channel, currently goes into an instrument rack with chain selector. Each chain in the rack has an 'external instrument' device routing that chain's MIDI into a ...

I'd like to use a rack's chain control to determine where the MIDI for an input track (that has a keyboard attached) is sent to. ie I have 5 MIDI instrument channels, each with a different instrument plugin, which I'll make available to my two keyboards. I'd like to use the chain control on a rack ...

thanks for that. I'm now looking at instrument racks too - interested to see how many interations of the same plugin I can have in a rack - if i manage to get the switching on/off working...

I should add that I am reluctant to just have duplicate tracks for everything - ie one that's live, and another that plays back. However I can see that would be a good option.

The reason I'm reluctant to do it is a) in a live setting I want as few tracks as possible to prevent clicking the wrong ...

I've been using Ableton 10 for quite a while now, and would say that I'm pretty solid on how it all works.

I'm interested in hearing the best way of dealing with a scenario of live performance, whereby I may have prepped some instrument parts in the arrangement view, but may at any given moment ...

ok I think i have something of a breakthrough. it possibly isn't a bug, but it's certainly unusual behaviour. I think i had some time signature change automation on my timeline - albeit some which didn't actually change the time signature - it stays at a solid 4:4 throughout.

However that seems to ...

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a bug - I'm on the latest mac version - 10.0.6 downloaded yesterday.

I can now demonstrate that if I jump around on my timeline for long enough, even if it's just using location markers in arrangement view, and certainly if i'm triggering loops in session view ...

not sure I follow. It seems that Ableton divides the timeline into whatever is the GC value - so if it's 8 bars, bar 1 is strictly the beginning of the quantize cycle, as is bar 9, bar 17. It doesn't seem to matter where you press 'play' (certainly for arrangement view anyway) - the quantize cycle ...

ok, to add further info to this, I have found a Max for MIDI device that will display a clock face showing the current position within the selected global quantization cycle https://cycling74.com/forums/global-quantization-clock

This has greatly helped me understand what my clips and loops are ...

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what Ableton uses as it's positional reference when using a global quantization of over 1 bar.

For example, let's say my song is made up of 8 bar phrases, and I have laid out a verse/chorus structure in arrangement view, and also have various loops and bits and pieces in ...