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FWIW I just learned about a free iOS app from Yamaha called Chord Tracker, which claims to be able to listen to audio and figure out the chord progression. No idea how well it works.

The harmonic structure of classical and pre-classical music can be breathtakingly complicated, and cannot always be broken down into a straightforward series of chords. This harmonic complexity is one of the major things I find missing in today's popular music--especially electronic dance music. Exa...

A class compliant device is one that does not require a manufacturer's driver; so I'm not quite sure what problem you're trying to solve.

One other possibility: Look in C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\<Live release>\Preferences\User Remote Scripts
and see if there is a folder there with a name that matches your device. If so, remove that folder after uninstalling the drivers.

Thanks again for your good ideas. This didn't work for the first go. But you say that if it doesn't work, I should reinstall the device & drivers and then run that little tool ? Is that correct ? Yes. It is possible that for some reason the uninstall tool does not think that the driver is installed...

Another thought: Native Instruments has a not well publicized tool for removing dregs of their software. https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003509269-Fixing-Software-Update-Installation-Issues-Windows- If this doesn’t work, you might try reinstalling it and then using this t...

1) Set the Windows environment variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to 1. 2) Launch the Windows device manager. 3) Step (1) will have enabled a formerly hidden menu item in the Windows device manager: “Show hidden devices” in the View menu. Turn it on. 4) The list of audio devices displayed by th...

I recently acquired a Palette modular controller kit for use with Adobe Lightroom. When it showed up, I found that it can also be used as a MIDI controller, so I thought I'd tell you about it. The kit consists of a USB-powered master module and some number of controllers. The controllers stick to th...

If you haven’t done so already, try running the standalone versions of the plugins before using them under Live. Don’t know if that’s necessary for Arturia, but it is definitely necessary for some other plugins so it’s worth a try to see if Arturia requires it.

I used Live successfully for years on a machine about twice as fast as yours. However, it had 8 GB of RAM. Therefore, I think that if you were to increase yourmRAM to,8 or, preferably, 16 GB, you might be able to get it running fast though to use. 4 GBIs just not enough for,Live in the Windows 10 wo...

I would start by ensuring that you have the correct driver for your audio interface. What kind of interface are you using?

The betas generate usage reports as they run, which may slow them down noticeably. However, if the problem is gone on 10.0.3 beta, then it should also be gone from the released version of 10.0.3; and I suspect it won’t be too long until that is released.

Does the problem occur with the latest 10.0.3 public beta?

In addition to possible bugs in your particular graphics card, I have encountered two other reasons for CPU spikes: 1) Perhaps the machine is not set for its highest-performance power mode. 2) Perhaps there is a problem with a cooling fan. I spent a month trying to figure out why my laptop was misbe...

What's a good way to use Push 2 to perform music live that combines launching clips and playing instruments over them? The problem is that at any given instant, the Push buttons do one of two things: They represent clips to be launched or notes to be played, but never both at once. That means that i...