Ableton Forum

I've got a 13" macbook pro which rather frustratingly has one audio in/out port so if I'm using headphnes to listen I can't feed the op-1 in - might have to be an audio interface like the NI Audio 2 DJ but would be super handy if you can send audio live over USB.

The bit of information I forgot to add here was can I transfer the audio live over USB rather than having to send it out through the mini jack output as that would mean that I would have to bring an audio interface with me.

Putting aside the polarising effect the Teenage Engineering op-1 seems to have. I am mighty close to deciding to get one. The portability of it is a massive plus for me as I travel a lot and its in hotel rooms with a laptop and ableton that I normally get the chance to produce. If I got the OP-1 am ...

Our latest tune is called "Bored 'til Death" and its basically about workign shitty jobs and jsut living fro the weekedn whilst realisign how pointless this makes your day to day life - hopefulyl we're not the only ones feeling like this! Tune took a while to do and took on various mutatio...

We basically wanted to do a distorted stomping tune so that’s what we did – the lyrics are about someone we have had dealings with who thins a little too much of themselves. Have a listen and please let us know what you think. Cheers Fuzzy Empire http://soundcloud.com/fuzzy-empire/peoples-champion

One Sunday afternoon we were bored so we downloaded the stems for God Given from the Nine Inch Nails website and remixed it so that it is upbeat and kind of storming which is not how the original is. We quite like it but give it a cheeky listen and let us know what you think. Cheers Emmet and Tim Fu...

The band I am in (Fuzzy Empire) have recently finished a tune called “Later On” – we decided to do something a bit more subtle than we normally would so its an acoustic track with electronic elements. It took a lot of editing etc but we are finally happy with it. Please have a listen below and let u...

No I did not! Rookie error - sorry and thank you!

I just bought an Akai MPK49 yesterday and have been messing round with it and decided to start mapping things the way I want them. When I go into MIDI map mode on live and choose the control I want to assign I press the button/fader etc on the MPK49 nothing happens. Live recognises that it is receiv...

This did help but not in the way intended! You ind of spurred me on to think about this properly. I couldn't use the solution you gave as we play though live more as a sequencer rather than launching clips. What I have done instead of what you propose is to arm all the MIDI tracks and then automate ...

Wow! I thought I knew live pretty well but I obviously have much to learn. I reckon the Uber project approach is the way forward as it makes things (theoretically) more manageable. I appreciate that I will have to automate BPM changes in between songs but I am afraid you have lost me with the chain ...

I am in an electro-rock outfit and we are rehearsing our tunes at the moment and working out how we are going to manage things on stage. The one issue that we struggling on is the gap between songs. As everything is coming through live if we are going to change track we need to open the new project ...

I am one half of an electro-rock outfit, we are looking to perform our music live and I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to help with a couple of questions. I am looking to perform some of the MIDI parts in our tunes using a Starr Labs guitar – the issue that I have is that I will wan t...

Seriously helpful man - thank you so much.

Certainly erring on the side of going for this now. I note that you mention ipads in the plural - does that mean that you can potentially use two ipads so that both of you have control over everything at the same time?

I have resisted the urge to buy an ipad very strongly since they first came onto the market I am now however contemplating a chance of heart purely to be able to use touchOsc as a way of controlling live. The band that I am in at the moment are getting read you move our heavy electronic show live an...