Ableton Forum

fjettolf wrote:So my budget is pretty limmited.
This is my budget saver:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161024627387?ss ... 1497.l2649

That looks nasty.

Is there a Scale MIDI effect in the device chain?

I don't think Live will "recognize" the FCB, but it will receive MIDI messages from it if you connect it to your MIDI interface and press the switches. Do you see the Live MIDI receive LED lighting up when you press a switch?

This is the age-old debugging question. Where is the problem? One of the basic premises of debugging is to assume its is your fault, not a bug in the hardware or operating system or programming environment. So, its probably not a bug in Max or Live. So how to find the cause? A basic strategy is to t...

pablorotter wrote:
I had live 8 suite, a huge library, eic-2, to replace that with 9 cost me over $1,000, before PUSH.

This is ridiculous.

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Am I off base here?

Yes, you do seem to be some distance "off base". Your cost might be in Bhutan dollars perhaps?

There are good built in lessons about setting up your sound hardware and recording external sources.

friend_kami wrote: except that they broke the browser instead of fixing it. at the least if you want to use your own content instead of their content.

Please explain. Is it not possible to browse and search anywhere on the hard disk in Live 9?

I think you will need 2 midi cables for bidirectional messaging. In the simplest case, assuming the apc is capable (i dont have one so I dont know), you could mirror the effect of one apc on the other by connecting midi in from one to midi out on the other, but you want to have user-defined mappings...

Ahh, there is the tutorial. Glad you pointed out exactly how to get to it because it wasn't readil;y obvious where the tutorial was. Another non-intuitive thing they did on this software. Most software just has a Tutorial tab under the help tab. This is explained on page 5 of the manual, section 2....

Work through the built in lessons. Not being able to use the video and Live together is probably a driver issue. One program grabs the driver and if the driver isn't able to work with more than program at a time then the next program can't use it. Asio4all might help, but I'm not sire about that.

I think this is mentioned in 17.5.4 Chain Select Zones. Page 211 of the manual. I was just reading about it. It allows you to filter cc messages.

Max for live is a combined programming environment and runtime environment. It is based on the MAX system which is also a programming environment and runtime environment, but it is limited to only working when you have Live running on your machine. So, you can write programs in the programming envri...

I think this is how I accidentally over-wrote a M4L library device. It is counterintuitive. In every other computing situation I can think of if you save something to a new location then the next save goes to the new location, not the original one. It seems like a bad design to me.

Thanks. I see these now. I was confused and thought you were referring to calls to API functions.

kleine wrote: No need for that - the good old "Max Api CtrlEnvFol" does it as well.
Available in any good API tools store...

p.s.: the "Max Api CtrlMIDInote" might be your friend as well.

I haven't come across these in Max yet. How do I access them?