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by laird
Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:00 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: amplitude to midi VST ?
Replies: 17
Views: 7806

There is a VST plugin in the Pluggo Plugins pack that does exactly this.
Sorry, I've never used it in Live.
by laird
Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:56 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: CAn Ableton replace Pro Tools?
Replies: 17
Views: 5858

I recently switched from Pro Tools to Live-- after some prodding from a couple of Recording Engineer friends of mine. Live has some major strengths over ProTools... I think my favorite is Live's ability to arrange/rearrange song sections with a simple click of a button (whereas in ProTools, you have...
by laird
Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:16 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Controlling loop regions with midi cc?
Replies: 1
Views: 820

You've just discovered the old-timers way of doing "granular" time stretching on old samplers, and its cool! Totally tweakable. So my answer is: its easy to do this on Sampler. As for a clip-- you can draw and Envelope for sample start time (like the volume or pitch envelopes... hit the ci...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:08 pm
Forum: Feature Wishlist
Topic: CROSSFADES for audio regions, please
Replies: 33
Views: 11060

Back in 2002, Ableton said "As for the 'lead-out', something is going to be in there soon to solve this, and other problems in a very nice and general way " referring to when someone asked for a "clip lead-out feature", letting one clip continue to fade out even though another cl...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:58 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: pitchbend wheel on Oxygen 8
Replies: 6
Views: 5081

I think Mr Man already answered your question. What are you trying to pitch bend? An audio clip? A VSTi? Simpler/Sampler? For the latter two, make sure that the patch actually responds to pitch bend. No need for any special plugin. You should be able to tell if Live is receiving Pitch Bend, though: ...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:41 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Midi Problems
Replies: 2
Views: 934

Did you try setting the Radias Clock setting to Ext-USB? (while Live is the Master, and transmits MIDI beat clock). Barring that, try going to the MIDI filter page and start turning on some filters for data you dont use (often), like maybe sysex and such. I dont own a Radias, but my synths hold note...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:43 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: recording audio in session
Replies: 13
Views: 4783

I generally just move my loop start marker manually. I also _like_ recording the tail of my guitar (or whatever) that falls outside the loop... that way when I get to the end of said loop, I can let it fade out normally instead of just stopping instantly. If you have the grid mode activated (like, s...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:26 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Sampler Release time - Possible BUG?
Replies: 5
Views: 1588

A Couple of thoughts: 1) what is release mode set to? Off? ->|? Set it to loop 2) is there any audio to play once you stop looping? Or is the Loop end right at the end of the sample? solution: record a longer sample and set the loop area somewhere in the middle of the sample... or see #1 3)Do you ha...
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:18 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Project/song Pitch change
Replies: 1
Views: 692

Drop pitch MIDI plugins on all midi tracks and set them to -3

I don't think you can do this globally...

anyhow, just stick the MIDI plugin to the left of any VSTi/Instrument plugins.
by laird
Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:13 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Please help me!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 1266

So did you try Render to Disk?
That seems pretty close to "render" to me, enough so that I'd try it.

Then you'll have to use a program to convert from .wav/.aif to mp3.

try searching google for such a program, there's tons.
by laird
Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:07 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: macIntel live vocoder FOUND!!!
Replies: 30
Views: 11516

Also free, PC only is http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2676.html the Vocov vocoder, which I like cuz its small and you dont have to fiddle with Left/Right sends and such. You stick a "capture" plugin on one track to capture the modulator (if necessary), and then stick the Vocov plugin on the Ca...
by laird
Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:46 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: EQing, Filtering parts/samples out of records. Possible?
Replies: 11
Views: 2433

Machinate wrote: It's also a lot like taking the eggs out of a cake.
So you know about eggstraction techniques?


{ducks}
by laird
Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:34 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: EQing, Filtering parts/samples out of records. Possible?
Replies: 11
Views: 2433

Vocals are relatively easy to filter out. Thats why you can buy Karaoke machines at Wal Mart that'll karaoke-ize your CDs. Drums are essentially impossible to filter/phase out.... there are certainly no plugins that'll do it for you. Look in the Live Manual under "Utility" plugin to see ho...
by laird
Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:31 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: (help) Rendering your track in Live
Replies: 2
Views: 1034

Not even the Master Fader-- That's the one to check to make sure its not going into the red. Because if it does, Live's 32-bit processing can play the audio back just fine, but when it renders to a 16bit file = CLIPPING. So please double check the fader on the far right or the session view/ far bott...
by laird
Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:25 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: filterdelay-time to 32 beat, any tips?
Replies: 7
Views: 2132

Hmmm, I wonder if that plugin has a max delay time... some Delays do, and I've never pushed fitlerdelay to its limit. There are plenty of Delay VSTs you could try: http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?mode=results&st=adv&soft=e&type%5B%5D=12&f=0&fe=0&win=1&free=1&sf=0&...