Multiple instances of Live on OS X

[knatten]

You've probably heard this a thousand times before, but I'll just chime in with my most desired feature for Live on OS X: The ability to have two sets open at the same time.

Some times I save my set under a new name, take the arrangement in a whole new direction, and the next day I decide I want to keep a bit of the old and a bit of the new. This is a very cumbersome thing to do when I can't open two instances of Live. Another use case is remixing an old track in a new set, and I'm sure there are more.

[kingslim]

open Live

open Terminal type:
open -n
then drag the live application to the window or specify the path, it becomes something like:

open -n /Applications/Ableton\ Live\ 9\ Suite.app

hit enter

another instance of Live will open, will give a popup warning that rewire is disabled while 'other rewire master is open' ..
or you can select tracks and drag them to the library, to bring them into other sets.

[knatten]

Great, thanks! That solves it for now. Would still appreciate some more official support for it though.

[kevinreynoldsdetroit]

Is this working okay? I just watched a video that basically did a copy paste of the Ableton application in the Applications folder (instead of opening terminal?)

Thanks!