Several Ableton Live questions from a Cubase guy
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:34 am
Hey there guys, hope you're all doing great.
I'm currently on the 3rd day of my Ableton Live 10 Suite demo and really lovin it.
I have several questions that I was hoping you could possibly help me with:
* When using VST plugins, is there a way to save a certain "preset" as a default preset? Some plugins offer this natively but not all do, and in Cubase there was an option available across all plugins where the current plugin preset could be set as default. From that point onwards, any new instances of the plugin would default to the preset set. Just to clarify, "Save as Default Configuration" seems to be mostly about saving the "Device Parameters" which you configure using the "Configure" button, not about saving the current "preset" as the default. Hope I'm missing something here.
* When using VST plugins, is there any way to save my plugin presets into the User Library? Currently, the Load and Save buttons on the plugin device are simply asking me to save or load files from folders on my hard disk. I'm wondering if there's a central place where I can store all presets and then browse them using my User Library instead? Cubase does this with MediaBay and it was a handy way to store my presets in one central place where I could browse them. The only method I have found so far is embedding the plugin in an Instrument Rack and saving that preset, but that seems a bit convoluted and thus, I'm hoping there's a nicer way.
* Is there a way to select multiple MIDI clips and destructively transpose them? Currently it seems that this is not possible, and thus if you were transposing multiple tracks, they would have to be done one at a time.
* Apart from Cmd+Option+P, is there a universal way to simply hide the current plugin window? On some plugins, the Esc key works while on others it doesn't.
Thanks so much!
Fots
I'm currently on the 3rd day of my Ableton Live 10 Suite demo and really lovin it.
I have several questions that I was hoping you could possibly help me with:
* When using VST plugins, is there a way to save a certain "preset" as a default preset? Some plugins offer this natively but not all do, and in Cubase there was an option available across all plugins where the current plugin preset could be set as default. From that point onwards, any new instances of the plugin would default to the preset set. Just to clarify, "Save as Default Configuration" seems to be mostly about saving the "Device Parameters" which you configure using the "Configure" button, not about saving the current "preset" as the default. Hope I'm missing something here.
* When using VST plugins, is there any way to save my plugin presets into the User Library? Currently, the Load and Save buttons on the plugin device are simply asking me to save or load files from folders on my hard disk. I'm wondering if there's a central place where I can store all presets and then browse them using my User Library instead? Cubase does this with MediaBay and it was a handy way to store my presets in one central place where I could browse them. The only method I have found so far is embedding the plugin in an Instrument Rack and saving that preset, but that seems a bit convoluted and thus, I'm hoping there's a nicer way.
* Is there a way to select multiple MIDI clips and destructively transpose them? Currently it seems that this is not possible, and thus if you were transposing multiple tracks, they would have to be done one at a time.
* Apart from Cmd+Option+P, is there a universal way to simply hide the current plugin window? On some plugins, the Esc key works while on others it doesn't.
Thanks so much!
Fots