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This error message gets displayed quite often when using Ableton Live 9 and Collect all and save. It might work really well for a good while and then suddenly one video file goes offline. Not sure if QTKit is crashing or whatever it is. Live definitely needs to step up their video side. I'm using a ...

This would be very helpful!

So, for the first time in ages Ableton Live manages to lose the project I was working on. Live crashed while I was manipulating a curve. The audio engine kept on playing, but the the application stopped responding. So I waited for a few minutes and decided to terminate it with "Force quit"...

doghouse wrote:This video shows solutions in Monosequencer (included in M4L), Reaktor, Reason and Numerology.

Thanks. Monosequencer looks like exactly what I am after! I will try it out right now

You can use a Pitch device to automate the pitch, and feed it with the rhythm of "base" notes from a Clip, Arpeggiator, etc. You can even drop a Groove directly on a Track and use it as MIDI. This might be interesting! Using the Pitch device to handle the melody while the midi clip create...

Ah ha! So the gate is triggering the notes/sequence as opposed to simply cutting the audio out? Yes. Exactly! Hey sorry it can work. So use the ml 185 sequencer. This will trigger the notes (pitch) and then on the gate use the new melodic steps. Or you use what every sequencer you want. One as a no...

So, you can have a clip or a track in your arrangement with the synth melody (note sequencer using your virtual synth of choice. You can then add Ableton’s Gate to that track. You can then use the Gate to sidechain your rhythm track. I think that should work. Thanks for the suggestion. This would r...

Would anyone have an idea on how to create a melody sequence and a rhythm sequence separately and play them combined with one synthesizer, all in Ableton Live? This is quite an easy routing to do in Propellerheads Reason for example with Matrix Sequencer, ReDrum and some of the many synths/samplers....

Big thanks to Guy Smiley! Following your instructions, I managed to track down the problematic plugins and after installing older versions of them, I was able to recover the project.

So, I'm able to open the clip view side from the first 4 tracks. Structure is not there at all. The error could be caused by a problematic plugin on channel 5. I think there should be a tool for editing .als files in a case like this. Removing one plugin could help in opening the rest of the project.

Got it! It seems to work! Thanks!

:edit: but not as useful as I thought it would be...

Hello and thanks for the answer... and yeah it's a really annoying situation that old projects break down so no worries about the non-constructiveness. Opening a new project and dragging in tracks one by one to identify the troublesome track sometimes seems to work. At least you get most of the proj...

I'm trying to open an old project from I guess Ableton 7 times and I get a serious program error. I should export the song for a trailer tomorrow so I'm in deep trouble atm. Any help? Screenshot below. :edit: Software version Ableton Live 9.0.4 32-bit, also tried with Live8. System: Win7 https://dl....

Hello again. Well, I've not met one physically modeled synth that is a 'perfect' replica of natural instruments it aims to recreate. I suppose it is simply time for you to settle for a workaround ;) You can get similar bass sounds from FM synthesis when you shape the envelopes just right. Most FM s...