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Try Komplete Kontrol... it's horribly slow to come back with the wrench. :( Also, I notice that the keyboard shortcut only works when you've opened it with the wrench, if you click the wrench again to close it, the keyboard shortcut no longer works until you click the wrench again. For something on ...

It's amazing to me that no one else seems to think this is an issue. I guess I'll need to make a video about it, maybe then it will become more obvious how these behaviors differ in Live.

The first time you load a plugin it takes a while depending on the plugin (example: Komplete Kontrol is horribly slow and Addictive Drums 2 is extremely fast). Once loaded, if you click the wrench icon (Show/Hide Plug-In Window) it will then hide the plugin window. However, when you click it again, ...

Obscure tid-bit: Ableton Live does not support routing multiple MIDI output channels from a single VST. You can get round this with Blue Cat Audio Patchwork. It's a VST host that also runs as a plugin. It exposes 16 channels of MIDI to Live. That's how I've run Cardinal, the VCV Rack alternative ve...

Obscure tid-bit: Ableton Live does not support routing multiple MIDI output channels from a single VST. Like VCV Rack2, MaschineVST, etc. It sums all of them together to a single (All channels) output. So, if you want to have a VST that is producing MIDI and output that MIDI to some other instrument...

I have been super disappointed as a Push 3 owner that they don’t yet have arrangement view. My Push 3 will continue to collect dust until this feature is meaningfully added. :cry: Yep... I returned my P3S ... The workflow is just not there yet in my opinion (regarding using the Push as a standalone...

Agreed, but yeah, you can create a group in there and name that. You can also Edit the Info text so when you hover over it will show that text in the info pane.

Notice how when you first open a plugin window (the wrench show/hide plugin window button), it takes a bit to open and hangs the whole UI while doing it? After it does this initial load, if you click the wrench again (not close the window with the X), it just hides it but keeps it in memory so, it o...

Here's a pretty good reference for what's new in the accessibility department. https://www.ableton.com/en/release-notes/live-12-beta/ I think you can use the keyboard to navigate focus to that little triangle button and then invoke it with enter or space or something... Considering you can have many...

Reading through the release notes, I see there are TONS of new shortcuts in support of better accessibility, which is great. But no word on customizing any of this. So... I am going to assume, it's all hard-coded... Guess we all (who care) need to keep using AutoHotKey to hack the keyboard shortcuts...

I really hope that keyboard shortcut remapping (quality of life) is part of Live 12. Things such as remapping the quantize keyboard shortcut, which as it is, is too much of a stretch to do from the left side of the keyboard (on Win10), and show/hide plugin windows, same deal. Sadly, I have seen noth...

Hey thanks! Super helpful. I have quantize and show/hide plugins, in case anyone wants those: ^w::Send, ^!p ^q::Send, ^u Ugh! It's so lame we have to do this... Why not just allow us to remap all the keyboard shortcuts, I mean come on, they already have this whole Key/Midi mapping thing, just no way...

Yes, you can, as you can use follow-actions to pretty much layout a whole arrangement prior to committing it to the arranger. However, using follow actions means that it will just do that every time you run that scene, where if it was just a launch quantization type, it would be global for all scene...

I was about to start another thread about this as it's quite maddening that here we are on Live v11 about to be v12 and there is no way to do Launch Quantization at "Clip End". In the Native Instruments Maschine world, you can set the launch quantization much like in Live (i.e. at bar inte...

Yep, seems basic "industry standard" usability features are not a priority (also like, you can't remap any of the keyboard shortcuts). I have started using AutoHotKey in Win10/11 to capture and remap keyboard input for things like quantize and show/hide plugin windows (because when you clo...