Stuff in Live you wish you figured out a long time ago

[spiral]

Right clicking on the time ruler in arrangement view will present a "show all" option, that will zoom out to show you the whole arrangement.

double clicking on overview does same thing

[man ovaboardz]

genital wart....

[Palmer Eldritch]

Double clicking a marker immediately starts the (stopped) song from that marker.

[kinkajou]

time for a bump and a feature request:

STICK THIS THREAD!

[Aequitas123]

+1 sticky

[gzifcak]

i got one:

for a long time i've been running reaktor inside live without being able to type any numbers or text into reaktor. in order to edit a patch i always had to open it in standalone mode.

someone just clued me in to this fix:

you have to create a txt file named options.txt in which you just write "-_EnsureKeyMessagesForPlugins"
and then you put it in the preferences folder of live

* OS 9: .../Preferences/Ableton/Live [version]/Options.txt
* OS X: .../Preferences/Ableton/Live [version]/Options.txt
* Win: ...\Program Files\Ableton\Live [version]\Preferences\Options.txt
* Win Live 5: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Ableton\Live [version]\Preferences\Options.txt

fwiw, my preferences folder was here:
Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Ableton\Live 7.0.10\Preferences

hope that helps someone else!

[mr.adl]

i got one:

for a long time i've been running reaktor inside live without being able to type any numbers or text into reaktor. in order to edit a patch i always had to open it in standalone mode.

someone just clued me in to this fix:

you have to create a txt file named options.txt in which you just write "-_EnsureKeyMessagesForPlugins"
and then you put it in the preferences folder of live

* OS 9: .../Preferences/Ableton/Live [version]/Options.txt
* OS X: .../Preferences/Ableton/Live [version]/Options.txt
* Win: ...\Program Files\Ableton\Live [version]\Preferences\Options.txt
* Win Live 5: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Ableton\Live [version]\Preferences\Options.txt

fwiw, my preferences folder was here:
Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Ableton\Live 7.0.10\Preferences

hope that helps someone else!

Oh my GOD!
Thanx for pointing this out. Now i can finally search presets by name in Massive or can type in a Cell name in Battery

[TroyP]

Wow! That's a great one. Where did you find out about this? Or more, where can I read more about how that can be used?

[gzifcak]

Wow! That's a great one. Where did you find out about this? Or more, where can I read more about how that can be used?

i saw it in a troubleshooting thread in the NI forum. i searched google for ableton live options.txt and found a few more, but they didn't seem as useful. i noticed there's another thread on here asking for a compiled list of useful commands for this, hopefully someone has one.

[Motoko]

It took me some time (and a lot of midi recording) before I found out that I can just drag and drop clips from session view to arrangement view...

[djgroovy]

It took me some time (and a lot of midi recording) before I found out that I can just drag and drop clips from session view to arrangement view...

Hehe, that must have been a revelation lol.
Those pesky things called manuals... who needs'em?

[TroyP]

...Hehe, that must have been a revelation lol. Those pesky things called manuals... who needs'em?

Yeah, but it happens even if you read manuals. I've gone through the Live manual a couple times. Once, when I first bought Live 6, and again when I got Live 7.

I'm still learning stuff. Usually things I didn't catch or care about yet at the time I read the manual.

So, keep posting everyone! This is still my favorite thread.

[djgroovy]

...Hehe, that must have been a revelation lol. Those pesky things called manuals... who needs'em?

Yeah, but it happens even if you read manuals. I've gone through the Live manual a couple times. Once, when I first bought Live 6, and again when I got Live 7.

I'm still learning stuff. Usually things I didn't catch or care about yet at the time I read the manual.

So, keep posting everyone! This is still my favorite thread.

No kidding, i love this thread too and learn new things everyday.
It's just that getting clips from session to arrangement was the very first thing i looked up in the manual, couldn't get by without it.
That's what i meant with my post.

[TroyP]

No kidding, i love this thread too and learn new things everyday.
It's just that getting clips from session to arrangement was the very first thing i looked up in the manual, couldn't get by without it.
That's what i meant with my post.

Here's my favorite trick on that, learned from here.
Instead of dragging (too hard hitting that icon just right), click and hold the clip...then press tab! Works the same way with consolidated clips from Arrangement to Session.

[Tone Deft]

BUMP