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Is that PDC only for Ableton effects, or also for VST's?

Well, I never said that I believed it was possible, but I would take the opportunity if it ever came about. I mean, you could always pull the plug if you decided you didn't like living like that.

The next logical progression would be downloading your "soul" into a waiting, mindless clone of ...

one thing to keep in mind is that they have always worked to improve Live. did anyone think from using Live 1 that it would grow into a fully-fledged yet stable DAW within 3 years

It's not a fully-fledged DAW. For one thing, it misses internal MIDI routing abilities. What's the deal with not ...

I am not sure I got your questions right, but

You can route several MIDI Tracks at the same time into a VST. Read the Routing section of the manual for details.

You can use MIDI CCs in Arranger Tracks as part of Clips only.


I figured so much... and it's highly annoying. It must be quite simple ...

I did notice that it is possibe to send arbitrary MIDI CC to VSTs from clip envelopes. Can this also be done from the track envelopes? I would like to have several MIDI tracks point to the same VST. Some VSTs also don't have a seperate list of automatable parameters and can be controlled through ...

Hi mate try this:
Load up a soft synth into a midi track.
Now look down at the the box that appears and there should be three circles with icons in them. The middle circle has a triangle, now push this and a whole array of controller sliders will appear.
To work out what they control push the ...

Is it possible to automate MIDI CC in the arrangement view? Up to now I only managed to do that in the clip view, which is a bit limited for my purposes.

bensuthers wrote:that's what it's supposed to do.

And what is the rationale behind this? It don't think it works very well... is there a way to corcumvent this behavior? (Maybe another option?)

When I try to split a long midi clip (with ctrl-E), it doesn't really get split up into seperate clips. All that happens is that you get several copies of the original clip, with the begin-of-clip marker set to the spot on which I tried to apply the split.