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Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to make certain parts of the Live interface stay visible at all times. Could you please help? There’s a couple different parts of the interface that i want to be able to quickly see whenever i’m using Live. The first is the looper device. Its very helpful to see the ...

Hi I’m trying to figure out how to program a sustain/hold button to replicate the effect of a sustain pedal while playing keyboard live. Could you please help? I love the sound of sustain pedal, but I play keyboard standing up and its not convenient to hold down an actual foot pedal while standing. ...

Hi , I’m trying to replicate the effect of a guitar capo on my midi keyboard. Could you please help? I want to map two midi buttons which respectively control transpose up and down by a semitone. I also want the current amount of transposition to be easily visible, even if I’m looking at a different...

Still wondering about this, does anyone know if this kind of thing is possible? Also, I'm realizing now that my use case was kind of complex and its probably easier to do it simpler first. So rather than having multiple layers of video loops, is it possible to do one simple video capture loop? Just ...

Do you want the first two tracks to move up and down but stay locked on one and two when you move the other 6 tracks to the right? If so... You can't...But you could hard map the 10 buttons to 10 clips, enter MIDI Mapping mode select a clip and then press the corresponding button. Cheers D Thanks! ...

Hi, I just got an APC40 mkii and am trying to figure out how to lock tracks onto it, Could you please help? I want to keep the first two columns on the APC40 locked so that they always control my main vocal mic track and my main grand piano track. i want the other 6 columns to still move freely arou...

Hi, I’m looking for a way to control the source levels of my audio input sources and output levels with midi or some other kind of remote. Could you please help? I’m using a Focusrite 18i20 scarlet interface and it works great, but I need to move the knobs on the interface to change any of my input ...

Hi, I’m trying to map a midi controller and Live isn’t recognizing it. Could you please help? Its weird because Live was just recognizing it earlier today- I mapped a few controls and it worked perfectly. I don’t think that I changed any settings. There are actually at least three midi controllers t...

I’m trying to use loopback to route iTunes and Youtube into separate channels on Ableton and am seeing some red signals in the volume bar (pic below). Could you please help me understand whats going on? Its wierd because I can hear Youtube and iTunes perfectly fine and moving the fader to lower the ...

HI, I’m trying to route audio through some tracks with loopers and am finding that its increasing the volume alot because the tracks are all playing on top of each other (pic below), Could you please help me figure out how to route this correctly and correct the volume? When i just route a track’s a...

Think i have just found the solution- i needed to select both the mono and stereo output as 23/24 in output config- the audio seems to be working now. Does this make sense, is it correct?

Sorry about that, thanks for letting me know! Here is the device settings in logic (and you can also see the routings in the mixer in the bottom) https://www.dropbox.com/s/vx4lm9khgwv3dmc/Screenshot%202017-10-31%2010.01.24.png?dl=0 Here is the device preferences and the output config in Ableton http...

Hi, I’m trying to route audio from Ableton to OBS via soundflower, but OBS isn’t recieving the audio and i dont know what to do. Could you please help? I am able to route audio from Logic to OBS via soundflower without problem, so the problem has to be somewhere in Ableton. I have created an aggrega...

Hi, i'm trying to use an Akai Midimix and a novation Launch Control to map some basic volume functions in ableton. Could you please help? Both of them seem to be pre-mapped by ableton- they control volume and sends for different tracks in a way that makes sense. However, I want to change the functio...