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It seems like you might be served better by working with multiple smaller clips? Use apple-E to split your clips (this works on multiple clips) around the places you want silent, and simply delete what's left in the middle. Alternately, you could route all five tracks to a submix track and use the v...

I will try to remember to report back whether it helps. Well, live on my macbook (and everything else) runs significantly better with 2gigs of ram; I haven't seen the same kinds of CPU spikes and audio dropouts since. I also haven't seen a single pageout since, supporting the idea that the VM was a...

Macbooks (both Pro and normal) do not have Firewire 800 ports

The macbook pro 17" has a firewire 800 port.

Is this normal? No -- I have a macbook with only 512MB ram as of yet and I can play the demo songs just fine (though there is the occasional CPU spike). In fact, I'm pretty sure they more or less worked on a G3; I know I played around with them before I got my macbook and don't remember having any ...

- it's also handy only having to load 1 instance of battery with all drum sounds and assigning different outputs if you want to add effects in ableton If I'm understanding this correctly (maybe not) you can do this in impulse too -- cf. section 12.7.5 of the manual for how (impulse offers each samp...

Perhaps a better way to think of macro controls is not using the sense of "macro" found normally in computer programs, but rather macro as opposed to micro-controls? Their purpose seems to be to control devices on a large scale as opposed to a small scale, so this seems to make a lot of se...

My ram should arrive this week (though they're being very slow for some reason) -- I will try to remember to report back whether it helps.

thebookclub wrote:

tylenol wrote:

Any help and/or links to software to use would be very appreciated. Thanks.

I'm not familiar with automat. Elaborate, please.

It's a free softsynth available only as an AU, and it is pretty nice. http://www.alphakanal.de/snipsnap/space/automat.

Any help and/or links to software to use would be very appreciated. Thanks. It's entirely dependent on the plugin author -- also, a lot of mac plugins don't have UB versions yet (though most commercial ones at least should get there soon). It seems like boot camp (or maybe parallels?) would be the ...

I've been wondering about this lately too, as I upgraded my machine and was surprised to find that the clicks didn't go away. I still get dropouts with a core duo 2ghz (macbook), same amount of memory as you. This replaces an ibook g3, and while the macbook has much more processor capacity, I haven'...

If you don't want to read the manual, at least enable the lessons view, and do the one called "creating beats".

For instance - why does the Arrangement play back stop when you stop an individual clip? In keeping with the rest of the paradigm, it would seem you'd want it to continue, so you could freely launch another clip later in the arrangement. Or am I totally off? When you stop a clip with the clip stop ...

No, I guess not. I was just wondering whether it was eating up CPU cycles or what, and whether it was having any destructive impact on my Live Set. But I take it it's just something to ignore for the time being. Maybe things will become clearer when I move into using Live as a DAW. (Thinking about ...

am i reading it right thinking that the boxed version will cost an additional $99 on top of the $99 upgrade fee? so basically: upgrade from 4 to 6 via download for $100. upgrade from 4 to 6 boxed version for $200. is this right? if so, how much is it to get a boxed version of 5 in the upgrade as we...

stinky wrote:yeah, right.. presonus bites my ass... somethin fierce...

Say more? I was wondering the same thing today while looking at some used presonus firewire interfaces.