Ableton Forum

Hi, When I playback something in Ableton, the 'Automation lane chooser' dropdown automatically changes without me selecting anything. I'm using Komplete Kontrol and Ableton automatically changes the dropdown based on whatever is been automated at the time. This is pretty annoying as, for example, if...

Giving this a bump. Surely someone else has had this before?

Any ideas on this, anyone?

hi, I recently moved over from pc to Mac and reinstalled Ableton. Everything is working fine, except for one really annoying thing. When I stop playing a track I get a sustained sound/note in line with the last sound on the track. The only way to stop this note from continuously playing is by pressi...

Great feedback, thanks all. I lost a couple of hours this afternoon adding compression to various different elements within one of my tracks and am not sure it sounds any netter tbh! Someone mentioned that a good tip is to bring the levels down to zero on each track and then slowly bring up the leve...

Thanks so much for the response and tips miyaru. I totally get it will come with practice. I've definitely gone down the route of overcompressing and making everything sound flat. I watched a fanu tutorial when he compressed a vocal which was a great example as it haD inconsistent peaks across the w...

Hi, I'm fairly new to music production and have a bit of a newbie question. How do you know which elements of a track to add compression on? I know this will come with experience, but I am not sure where to start when the waveform on particular tracks is fairly consistent with no major peaks. When l...

Hi. Looking for some feedback on this. I'm new to using Ableton and wanted to make a generic house tune with a relatively simple beat, rather than the broken beat style I tend to go for. I've now played this so many times, I have no idea if its any good and have hit a creative block on it. Any feedb...