Ableton live 9 secret window

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Scotty Danger » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:27 pm

Awesome, thanks! Can't wait to get home an try to enable this. What a HUGE feature, I wish they could have cleaned it up and included it in the first release.
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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Angstrom » Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:10 pm

It's not a "live 9 " anything, it's exactly the same in Live 8

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by H20nly » Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:16 pm

*bookmark*

thanks glen

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by glenn303 » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:28 pm

Angstrom wrote:It's not a "live 9 " anything, it's exactly the same in Live 8
I didn't write the blog. :evil:

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Buleriachk » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:03 pm

Any chance of a step-by-step for Live 9.01?
Win7 x64
(I tried it in a way that made sense to me, but it didn't work
I made an Options.txt in Preferences folder, but it had no effect when I restarted Live ...
)..

\User\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 90.1\Preferences\Options.txt

Options.txt file has one line:
-ShowDeviceSlots


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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by 3osc » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:48 pm

Buleriachk wrote:Any chance of a step-by-step for Live 9.01?
Win7 x64
(I tried it in a way that made sense to me, but it didn't work
I made an Options.txt in Preferences folder, but it had no effect when I restarted Live ...
)..

\User\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 90.1\Preferences\Options.txt

Options.txt file has one line:
-ShowDeviceSlots

\User\Library\Preferences\Ableton\Live X\

Also make sure to save the file as a .txt as TextEditor defaults to .rtf.

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Buleriachk » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:59 pm

No such library at that location, at least on my computer ...
Ableton Library is at:

C:\Users\Chuck\Documents\Ableton\Library

But no "Preferences" file
3osc wrote:
Buleriachk wrote:Any chance of a step-by-step for Live 9.01?
Win7 x64
(I tried it in a way that made sense to me, but it didn't work
I made an Options.txt in Preferences folder, but it had no effect when I restarted Live ...
)..

\User\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 90.1\Preferences\Options.txt

Options.txt file has one line:
-ShowDeviceSlots

\User\Library\Preferences\Ableton\Live X\

Also make sure to save the file as a .txt as TextEditor defaults to .rtf.

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by H20nly » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:01 pm

^ i'm not at a computer with Live installed at the moment

wild guess... try here:

C:\Users\*user name*\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\...

i think this is a hidden folder.

you will need to click on Organize, Folder Options, View (tab), show hidden files and folders




the path that 3osc posted looks like it's on a Mac
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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by philipc » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:02 pm

It'd be better if it showed the user's custom names for devices rather than generic names. Still, a useful feature.

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by H20nly » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:10 pm

i edited my post above.

hope that helps.


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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Buleriachk » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:16 pm

C:\Users\Chuck\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 9.0.1\Preferences

That's the folder where I put my Options.txt file.
In fact, there is a Preferences.cfg file in that folder, but I'm a little leery of opening it...
H20nly wrote:^ i'm not at a computer with Live installed at the moment

wild guess... try here:

C:\Users\*user name*\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\...

i think this is a hidden folder.

you will need to click on Organize, Folder Options, View (tab), show hidden files and folders




the path that 3osc posted looks like it's on a Mac

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by Hermanus » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:18 pm

good if this works both with live 8 & 9

thank for the tip :idea:

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Re: Ableton live 9 secret window

Post by 3osc » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:18 pm

H20nly wrote:^ i'm not at a computer with Live installed at the moment

wild guess... try here:

C:\Users\*user name*\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\...

i think this is a hidden folder.

you will need to click on Organize, Folder Options, View (tab), show hidden files and folders




the path that 3osc posted looks like it's on a Mac
Whoops.... file path in Buleriachk's first post looked like it was for Mac. The "AppData" should have tipped me off :oops:

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