Ableton Forum

thankyou thankyou thankyou !

hi
stuck on a problem.
In the arrange view, i wish to scrub the arrangement and have it recorded into
its own clip, so i can use it in the arrangement. Tried a few times, its not
working for me.

Can this be done?

Ive noticed if i scrub the same thing in arrange versus clip view (after ...

sorry to ask again.... im still stuck.

(thanks)

i think it was one particluar track (with guitar audio recorded into it)
as when i try to audition it (before opening set) it crashed.
i do recall recording guitar into ableton.....and then making lots of clips in diff tracks....

can i recover ...

hi
ableton 8 on pc, is opening and working fine, but one set im trying
to open up, crashes ableton, saying a serious program error has occured
live will shut down after this message is closed.

ive tried opening the set from the actual file, from the browser, from
file menu....ive tried to drag ...

thankyou thankyou thankyou all!
lots of good tips and things to try.
i managed to do an arrangement today. maybe not the best, but its not the worst either.
i made a list on paper of the best changes/developments, there was about 4 or 5. so i just
made sure they were there, and i just left the ...

hi
in ableton, im working on a track.
its got about 40 tracks, and several diff sections / harmonic sections.

im trying to arrange it. and then tweak the mix after that.
we Arrange before we Mix dont we?

grouping tracks was a nice touch, im doing that.
(and freezing tracks).

i dont know ...

thankyou thankyou

the last things i installed was bomes midi translator,
and this: http://jackaudio.org/

but i dont have these running when using ableton when its crashing.
ill uninstall jackaudio as its too complicated to learn and i dont understand how to use it.

I have had more things ...

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im using ableton 8 on PC.

it was working fine for months.

now: say if the CPU meter at top right in ableton says 5% (minimal).
suddenly the music is distorted and the meter says 150 to 300% !
playback is not happening, freezing etc. have to shut down ableton.
once had to shut down PC fully ...

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im having trouble configuring ableton global tempo controls to my uc33.

when i assign to fader or rotary, its just toooo fast and abrubt, the speed of change, not
useable. I wish to have the speed of control of say when you use up/down arrow keys of qwerty.
can i change the response speed of ...

Right now the buttons on your 33e are probably in CC toggle mode. They switch between 127 and 0 with each press. One option is to reprogram the buttons to toggle between 127 on each press. There are other CC control methods too. I decided instead to change all the buttons to Notes instead of CC's ...

yur2die4 wrote:Change the button to a Note. It maps much more naturally in Ableton Live

sorry, i dont understand what you mean...

surprised no one mentioned this:

assign a rotary knob to scroll up and down the clips.
in conjunction with a button to hit play on clip....

with 2 channel set, you can launch any clip and navigate(knob)
with a total of 3 controls (knob + 2 buttons to launch).

Problem: when i try to assign a ...

hi

used the mpd16 yesterday, purley as my wrists hurt from using mouse so much,
with battery, mostly auditioning cells, i found my wrists hurt even MORE with the mpd16,
the sensitivity is not too sensitive.

the mpd16 utility app that they give you, has pad sensitivity settings, -8 to +8....i ...

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when we have an ableton song playing (actually this doesnt matter)
and then MIDI files/midi clips, there is a default sound, like a sine wavy sound that plays
the MIDI notes, can we change this?

ive tried making a midi track with a vst synth, but when you select a midi file, it still plays
in ...

hi
i enjoy using ableton for electronic music making,
and im also a guitarist, today i had a nice drum beat going in ableton,
and i picked up my bass guitar, i recorded into ableton, thinking ill
make some good loop points of guitar bits, i edited the audio in soundforge,
and when it was ...