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by koranek
Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:17 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live
Replies: 7
Views: 2538

Re: What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live

I did look it up before I posted. I saw 2009 and it's 2014. But strictly speaking it was released August 2009, so you're right, it's actually 4.5 years old, not 5.
by koranek
Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:14 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live
Replies: 7
Views: 2538

Re: What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live

One strategy seems to be to always use the latest version of an OS. You get the advantage of the latest technological advances, but you might have to spend a lot of time dealing with incompatibilities or quirky behavior with your current software. I've run across other surveys (KVR, Synthtopia) and ...
by koranek
Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:12 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live
Replies: 7
Views: 2538

What's the best higher version above OSX 10.6.8 for Live

It seems most audio people are still on 10.6.8. Yet there are starting to be more apps and plugs that require 10.7 or higher. If I were going to upgrade, which would be best for Live.
by koranek
Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:18 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Web page audio glitch drove me crazy all day.
Replies: 0
Views: 453

Web page audio glitch drove me crazy all day.

Earlier today I got a strange audio glitch, periodic, about every two seconds, even a little like a failing capacitor. I spent the rest of the day trouble shooting, freaking out, wondering if it was time for a new audio interface or to start reinstalling stuff. It was showing up in Ableton, in iTune...
by koranek
Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:48 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Ableton is getting a head start on April Fools Day.
Replies: 7
Views: 1704

Re: Ableton is getting a head start on April Fools Day.

I was outside at sunset playing in a drum circle and I used shakers to sound like cicadas. You start slow and speed up the shaker sound, like going from 1/4 notes, to 1/16 notes, to 1/64 notes. I woke up all the cicadas in the trees and they all started buzzing.

Bug music.
by koranek
Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:08 pm
Forum: Ableton Push
Topic: Push glitches audio when changing record arm (Solved)
Replies: 1
Views: 1030

Re: Push glitches audio when changing record arm for a track

I created a support ticket for this and Ableton got back to me in a few days. (Why are so many people bitching about Ableton support?) They suggested: n order to solve the problem you could try to disable "Reduced Latency when monitoring" in Live´s menu, under Options. This setting is save...
by koranek
Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:12 am
Forum: Ableton Push
Topic: Push glitches audio when changing record arm (Solved)
Replies: 1
Views: 1030

Push glitches audio when changing record arm (Solved)

Sometimes when I'm working with a set in Session view and I have several midi tracks set up, I like to use the exclusive track record arm buttons to switch between different VSTs for playing. I usually put Push in Volume mode to do this. Several times when I am doing this I get a brief popping glitc...
by koranek
Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:42 pm
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: Is using synth presets 'cheating'?
Replies: 53
Views: 26003

Re: Is using synth presets 'cheating'?

If using presets is cheating, then is using other musicians cheating? Is editing a performance cheating? Is using a compressor cheating? Original music, in its purest form, involves someone making their own instruments and playing their own compositions. If you haven't hand-wound your own speaker co...
by koranek
Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:00 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Push owners: has Push replaced the keyboard?
Replies: 35
Views: 8288

Re: Push owners: has Push replaced the keyboard?

I've played keys for a long time, so I have a wired in feel for playing. I like the melodic weirdness I can get with Push, but I don't always like playing melodic lines with it. Trying to sustain a note is too fiddly. Unless I push down very consciously with enough force, I get false triggers of mel...
by koranek
Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:45 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Touchable: Keyboard Mode not working
Replies: 3
Views: 1076

Re: Touchable: Keyboard Mode not working

I had some weird stuff happen right after I updated Touchable. Some of the play modes didn't work right. I restarted my Mac and everything worked correctly.
by koranek
Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:10 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Polyrhythms
Replies: 4
Views: 1115

Re: Polyrhythms

Yes! Thanks!
by koranek
Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:51 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Wavedna liquid rhythm
Replies: 8
Views: 1889

Re: Wavedna liquid rhythm

Yes, and I like it a lot. They created a Max plugin that you stick in front of drum rack. It pops up the LR screen. Click on a clip in Live and it automatically loads in LR. Make changes in LrR and they automatically show up in the Live clip. So there are a ton of ways of creating beats from scratch...
by koranek
Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:30 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: New Live Midi Editor/Beat Generator/Randomizer
Replies: 1
Views: 662

Re: New Live Midi Editor/Beat Generator/Randomizer

On sale now for Black Friday.
by koranek
Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:12 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: New Live Midi Editor/Beat Generator/Randomizer
Replies: 1
Views: 662

New Live Midi Editor/Beat Generator/Randomizer

Just a shout out. I've just started working with WaveDNA's LiquidRhythm and I really am impressed. So many different ways to create and mangle beats. They also created a M4L plug that allows you to run LiquidRhythm in parallel to Live so that changes that you make in your Live clip or changes you ma...
by koranek
Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:20 pm
Forum: Ableton Push
Topic: Need a threshold setting for aftertouch
Replies: 12
Views: 3388

Re: Need a threshold setting for aftertouch

Stray from Native Kontrol also made a M4L device called AT_Scaler. Search for it on the web and then just stick it in your device chain before your VST. Works great.

Stray is cool.