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by michael.j.mclaughlin20 » Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:01 pm
ok, so I think the reason why this is happening is because Ableton has made some changes to their compressor in regards to the range in which the knobs and values can be set to. However, this range is still (computationally) from 0.000000 to 1.000000 or if the effect racks run off of a a 0-127 range then that will be the range. These two concepts are important as I try to explain this.
So basically if you have a certain number of milliseconds on your compressor's release, (say of 20ms which corresponds to a computational value of something like 0.30000 or in midi's case somewhere around 45) and you have that mapped to an effect rack that has a range of 0-127 (though the racks can get more precise than this), then the Ableton set is going to remember that 0-127 value and not the one that is set by the compressor. In the new version, Ableton programmed the compressor to reach an extended or different range, the set will retain it's computational range of 0.30000, but a different time value will be applied to it since the compressor is using a different range.
This is just like extending or shortening the range when using midi mapping and assigning 0-127 values to it)
I'm not sure which ranges have been extended or switched to logrhythmic or vice versa from linear, but I'm sure the manual will be able to help you out with most of this stuff.
This does not happen when you do not have an effect rack. In fact, the opposite happens, where the knobs on the compressor will actually turn to match their original values in Live 8.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to get around this, you've just got to live with it or take your single string effects out of your effect racks, which is extremely easy to do... since you're only using serial and not parallel processing.