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by micksmuse
Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:15 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MIDI Guitar vs Roland GK-3 and Roland GI-20 vs GR-55
Replies: 28
Views: 9778

Re: MIDI Guitar vs Roland GK-3 and Roland GI-20 vs GR-55

hi, just about to splurge and grab the jam origin midi guitar. a couple questions since i assume you are using it with ableton 9. do you do anything with latency settings on ableton differently? will i be able to trigger bass sounds with it and get a reasonable reaction on the low strings with poppi...
by micksmuse
Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:54 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: velocity on high hat track
Replies: 2
Views: 674

Re: velocity on high hat track

what i am doing is using a korg kronos and recording drum patterns off of it onto a midi track on ableon then i duplicate that track for as many times as i have number of individual drum sounds. then i strip off everything but the bass drum on one track, snare on another, hats on another, tons on an...
by micksmuse
Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:35 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: velocity on high hat track
Replies: 2
Views: 674

velocity on high hat track

so i have a high hat midi track for a song and it has several velocity's to it how do i select all of them to move them all up in velocity with the same difference between them that is there now? if i select the whole track and pull one note up just that note increases. i want to increase them all a...
by micksmuse
Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:02 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it
Replies: 55
Views: 10987

Re: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it

yeah, that's what i think i am going to do. thanks for the follow-up and attention to detail. can't wait. have a good new year
by micksmuse
Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:21 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it
Replies: 55
Views: 10987

Re: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it

Samsung 850 Pro seems to get great reviews. so i have never put in another drive. i assume i will need mounting kit and adaptor cable? so does this just go to 3.0 usb? Do not USB 3 Samsung 850 Pro. Samsung 850 Pro Magician software is INCOMPATIBLE with USB 3.0. thanks for the heads up on that. befo...
by micksmuse
Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it
Replies: 55
Views: 10987

Re: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it

Samsung 850 Pro seems to get great reviews. so i have never put in another drive. i assume i will need mounting kit and adaptor cable? so does this just go to 3.0 usb?
by micksmuse
Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:39 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it
Replies: 55
Views: 10987

Re: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it

so sounds like i am good to just mirror my regular hard drive and then use the ssd as my hard drive, maybe make old one my back up.
thanks for all the advice & suggestions. sounds like the way to go.
by micksmuse
Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:50 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD drive and everything from ableton on it
Replies: 55
Views: 10987

SSD drive and everything from ableton on it

so i am tired of slow loads and overwroking my regular drive. i am thinking SSD 1tb. internal to a desktop anything i should know (brand?, speed?) i know nothing about them. can you load everything related to ableton on it and just keep it specifically for ableton projects. is it an easy switchover ...
by micksmuse
Sat Dec 12, 2015 3:58 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: dropping bars from one song into another
Replies: 5
Views: 1206

Re: dropping bars from one song into another

perfect. that solved it. thanks so much. guess i have to read up on "warp"
never used that function. thanks again.
by micksmuse
Sat Dec 12, 2015 3:22 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: dropping bars from one song into another
Replies: 5
Views: 1206

Re: dropping bars from one song into another

i think what is happening is it is simply a sample being dropped on a line in the arrangement so the arrangement simply plays the sammple back at the speed the arrangement is in. logincally speaking i guess i am going to have to just have the samples on a cdr and play them in when i click record fro...
by micksmuse
Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:53 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: dropping bars from one song into another
Replies: 5
Views: 1206

dropping bars from one song into another

ok, so the other day i made a thread asking if i was proceeding correctly by recording a couple bars of a song onto a stereo track (arrangement view). i wanted to do the last song on my current album project having snippets of every song on the album playing out at the end. so i routed master into a...
by micksmuse
Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:55 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Strange Question about having pieces of songs inside song
Replies: 4
Views: 880

Re: Strange Question about having pieces of songs inside song

thanks so much. i thought that was the best way. just wanted to see if there were any shortcuts. good luck with your project too.
by micksmuse
Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:05 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Strange Question about having pieces of songs inside song
Replies: 4
Views: 880

Strange Question about having pieces of songs inside song

so i have a project i am finishing (album) and the last song i want to have a thing at the end where a little snippet of each song get's reprised in it. my first inclination is to just do a short stereo sample of a section of each song and save it as a sample and them put that sample on a stereo tra...
by micksmuse
Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:48 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: The Loop Loft: Any good?
Replies: 4
Views: 6275

Re: The Loop Loft: Any good?

got their drum bundle midi files. no instructions (if that matters). lots of repetition. some audio samples (not enough).
probably a good bargain, but only if a great weekend sale.
you get what you pay for.
by micksmuse
Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:56 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: CONTROL Play & Record with your FEET
Replies: 2
Views: 1045

CONTROL Play & Record with your FEET

i have seen a couple other threads for foot controllers but they are for more advanced uses. i simply want to be able to control the play & record functions on ableton. so i can jump right into keyboard parts without moving my hands. any suggestions would be very welcome. there must be something...