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Recently I tried to recreate the sound of an old C64 track using Live. I failed, because of simple functionality which could easily added and would be a great improvement of Live's synthesizer. I split this topic into two forum posts, one for each feature request. I programmed own music composing ...

Recently I tried to recreate the sound of an old C64 track using Live. I failed, because of simple functionality which could easily added and would be a great improvement of Live's synthesizer. I split this topic into two forum posts, one for each feature request. I programmed own music composing ...

Key Scale and Chord Tracks to Improve Composing

Music composing software did a huge step since processors are fast and there is a huge amount of RAM. Almost everything can be done with one single computer, composing and creating the music of a whole orchestra. Even though, the software is mainly ...

While composing music, I record everything I play on the piano with Live in a MIDI track. That way I can play freely and use nice melodies from that recorded session, without the need to remember them.

But it's really hard work to adjust the recorded melody to a given song tempo afterwards.

While ...

I don't have an answer for you, but I'll take the opportunity to once more cry
out for a way to set midi cc output from the macro knobs on racks. (...)

This is just what I searched for. For every other software synth, I can group them and assign some controls to the macro knobs. But not for the ...

Can your local controls send midi data?

Let me try to explain my problem in other words:

Currently it's easily possible to connect a midi device, and map controllers from this device to parameters of a software synth.

I have a hardware synth and would like to connect parameters of the hardware ...

Hi

I just bought Live 7. I used Live before only with software instruments. But I own a Yamaha CLP-280, with (IMO) one of the best piano sounds possible.

So I thought, why not control the piano with Live and record the audio. Everything worked fine, but now I search a way how I can easily control ...