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- Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:30 pm
- Forum: Tips & Tricks
- Topic: Looking for advice on recording to cassette tape...!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10687
Re: Looking for advice on recording to cassette tape...!
The connections are simple enough. Set your Live master track to output to a couple of hardware outputs on your audio interface. Connect those outputs to the tape deck’s inputs. Connect the tape deck outputs to a stereo pair of inputs on the audio interface. Set a Live audio track to receive audio f...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: Tips & Tricks
- Topic: What are some tips for processing vocals for bad singers?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1014
Re: What are some tips for processing vocals for bad singers?
Without commenting on the specific track you link to, there’s lots of ways vocals get processed. It helps massively if the singer is pretty much on pitch to start with, has a decent vocal tone and good timing and the singing is done into a good mic which matches their voice well in a good acoustic e...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Ableton on tablet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8257
Re: Ableton on tablet
There are many ways to do what you want. Assuming you have an iPad there’s Touchable, which provides a touch interface to a lot of Live’s functions. There are remote control applications which duplicate a Mac screen onto an iPad and let you run the Mac from the iPad. VNC is one, Duet another, and if...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Tips & Tricks
- Topic: macOS CPU performance related to WindowServer
- Replies: 26
- Views: 69875
Re: macOS CPU performance related to WindowServer
It basically drops Live’s screen refresh rate. “15” is probably going to be a bit laggy, but I can’t tell the difference in terms of graphics response between 30 and not making the options.txt change. It made a huge difference to my 2014/15 Retina i7 MBP, which has Intel graphics, and makes hardly a...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:05 am
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Latency Issues
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2282
Re: Latency Issues
Realtek chips aren’t intended for low-latency professional standard audio production. You might want to consider obtaining an audio interface which has low latency ASIO drivers supplied by its manufacturer. As an alternative you might be able to use ASIO4ALL to reduce latency - it works better for s...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:59 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: this is driving me insane - AUDIO POPPING
- Replies: 4
- Views: 623
Re: this is driving me insane - AUDIO POPPING
As well as providing your audio interface device type etc. it might be worth downloading and running latencymon.exe (google will provide a link to the developer’s web site if you search for it). Audio buffer over-runs leading to popping and dropouts can happen on some PC configurations regardless of...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:53 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Question about using certain audio formats with Ableton
- Replies: 1
- Views: 498
Re: Question about using certain audio formats with Ableton
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... s#external might explain what’s happening.
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:52 am
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Audio Interface with 4+ Output recommendations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 553
Re: Audio Interface with 4+ Output recommendations
“Budget friendly” can mean different things to different people... Various Focusrite, MOTU, and RME interfaces come to mind. RME aren’t the cheapest interfaces around but their drivers are excellent and RME tend to be very good at supporting no longer in production models with driver updates. Roland...
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:29 pm
- Forum: Tips & Tricks
- Topic: VST (guitar AMP) audio in signal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 531
Re: VST (guitar AMP) audio in signal
In general you need to create an audio track and drag the plugin from the browser pane into the plugins pane at the bottom of the track window. Then set the track’s input to whichever interface input your guitar is plugged into and track output to “master”. To hear the plugin working as you play set...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Recording Just Audio from MicroKorg
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1183
Re: Recording Just Audio from MicroKorg
With a very few exceptions being used by someone who has millisecond-accurate timing setting two different devices to the same tempo will not be enough to keep them in sync. The internal clocks simply aren't that accurate, especially if one is a computer. Tiny errors will build up until the devices ...
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:34 pm
- Forum: Tips & Tricks
- Topic: Struggles we are going through
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2091
Re: Struggles we are going through
That's THE trap with software: not deciding. But maybe there's something to do with this constant undecided state of mind? Back in the days when recording meant hiring a studio by the hour, paying for the tape used and for the engineer's time deciding whether what you'd recorded/mixed was "goo...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Recording Just Audio from MicroKorg
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1183
Re: Recording Just Audio from MicroKorg
Pretty much the only way to get a MIDI device to keep time with another MIDI device - e.g. a synth and Live - is for there to be a master MIDI clock which everything is set to follow. You need to connect the Korg’s MIDI in to a MIDI out from the computer and then set this to be sent MIDI clock in Li...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Music Production
- Topic: iCloud Sync Problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6248
Re: iCloud Sync Problem
By default Macs seem keen on putting all sorts of stuff on the iCloud “drive”, but that can be switched off by going into Settings and deselecting what you don’t want storing in the cloud. Telling Time Machine not to use the iCloud “drive” as a backup destination also helps prevent this behaviour. T...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:56 am
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Analog vs Software Synth VST
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1428
Re: Analog vs Software Synth VST
I agree that hardware synths generally do have more presence in the mix for some reason. Even when the software emulation is made by the same manufacturer as the hardware synth there is a difference - e.g. Korg’s emulation of the MS-20mini is not as raw or full sounding as an actual MS-20mini. It ca...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: Ableton Live
- Topic: Synth Funky Lead
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1716
Re: Synth Funky Lead
I was thinking of the Behringer Model D, not the polyphonic version.