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made this yesterday afternoon, looking for some feedback. so far I've had someone say i should change up the drums (which I'm working on) and I'm also trying to clean up the arrangement a little bit.

also what genera would you consider this?

i already have an interface with a 1/8" out and powered speakers out. but the only speakers i have right now are some shitty desktop speakers and im not sure if theyre going to be loud enough. and monitors that arent total shit are pretty expensive.

so my friend and i just started a band. we dont have a drummer yet so weve just been messing around. i want to use ableton on my laptop to trigger drum loops while we play. i have the loops made and setup but im not sure the best way to play them. it needs to be loud enough to be heard over my ...

yea ive just been double clicking on the clip slot. i knew there was some retarded easy way to do it without having to change the clip length each time.

when i setup a midi clip for recording by default it loops through one bar while i play, which i can change to however many i want. but when i come up with an idea i usually have no clue how many bars its going to end up being unless i think about it for a minute. so i end up having to either figure ...

the controller has to be set as a remote device. its under the midi preferences next to the device

i used to sit for ages with one sample trying to get the sound that i liked and id never end making anything

thats exactly what ive been doing.

i know itll come with time, ive got a couple good books on live and how synthesizers work/how to use them, so ive already been progressing. im just not ...

i looked it up and i dont think the bank select buttons can be mapped in live, since their use is to shift the scenes selected on the apc40 and arent an actual feature in live. but if the controller is like any of the akai controllers i have it should have came with its own editor and you might be ...

i dont have one but are you able to map its buttons in the midi map screen like you normally would?

im having a problem when i sit down to begin working on an ideas i have. im still new to live and have studio installed, so im bombarded by what seems like a hugh selection of instruments, drum kits and effects. And end up loosing my initial idea and musical spark trying to sort through them to find ...