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I want to buy an APC in the next moth tho I need to upgrade to 8.
Currently I use the Live 7 Suite. My question is:
Do I need to buy the Live 8 Suite or is it enough to buy the regular version and keep the Instruments from 7 Suite working?

you can't assign the same note to 2 clips on the same track since you cant play 2 clips on the same track

if you want to play 2 clips with one button press just put them on separate tracks

yes you´re right. I saw the new assignment overriding the old one on clips in the same track and assumed ...

I would suggest Edirol FA-101. Its firewire and I use it without problems on my notebook and desktop.
The good thing with firewire is: all usb-ports on your notebook are free for controller, mouse...
A lot of notebooks just come with two or tree usb-ports. Controller and soundcards often don´t work ...

You can define the range when you assign midi notes.
If you don´t use midi controllers you can insert a utility effect in every channel and set gain to -6db.
Than save the scene as template.

For example: When I assign a midi note to a slot (in session view) and assign the same note to a different slot later - it overrides the initial assignment and the note is now assigned to the second slot.
Is it possible to assign one Midi note to multiple slots (not a scene) ?
Or assign one Midi ...

Did you change the tempo range to your needs? For example if you have two tracks: one 130bpm and one 145 bpm you can set the range to min 130 and max 145 and its easier to paint the automation.

I realised that I use lots of samples in my sets. Up to 500MB is used for Samples.
So it takes some time to load these sets. (about 10-15 seconds for heavy sets)
For our liveact I want to reduce this time and saved each set in a new project to get rid of unused Samples which is a great feature btw ...