orange bar appears that says you can only drop audio effects into an audio track when dropping a vst instrument into the

[Jose Maria Brenes Caro]

An orange bar appears that says you can only drop audio effects into an audio track when dropping a vst instrument into the blank space this didnt use to happen before im on ableton 12 lite i also demoed suite it happens in both versions can anyone help ? this is making me lose interest in buying ableton standart this christsmas it's a great daw but this is a huge error please help me fix it soon

[maximejerryfraisse]

Instruments can only be used in MIDI tracks.

[[jur]]

Are you talking about this message not disappearing?
If yes, then that's just a known UI bug and you shouldn't worry about it.

[DoYouLikeHam]

I've been seeing this too... save the project, create a new one, then reopen the project.. and the message is gone. No problem, just annoying.

[Citizen]

So, its not just me?

God — its SO annoying.

[GUY SMILEY]

yeah me too. really annoying. seems to be related to the use of a VST plugin

[Rivanni]

I can reproduce it in the following way:
In Session View, drag an instrument or MIDI effect (native, Max, or plugin) over an audio, return, or master track and drop it in an empty space (so a new track is created).
The message will disappear and not reappear if you hover over a MIDI track before dropping. Sometimes, you can maneuver in such a way to get rid of the message before dropping the device.

Hovering over the master or return tracks can quickly happen when dragging something from Live's browser but a bit too far to the right or dragging things from the desktop or Finder/Explorer.

In the Arrangement view, it only happens occasionally with plugins.

This issue still occurs in Live 12.10.1b1.
When I reported this four years ago (Live 10), they stated at that time it was a known bug.
I'm bringing up the issue with every new Live version, but as we can see, it is still not fixed.

[Valkon]

@Rivanni
I envy your persistence (in Ableton many simple "problems" remain unsolved for years)!

[Kaless1n]

I can reproduce it in the following way:
In Session View, drag an instrument or MIDI effect (native, Max, or plugin) over an audio, return, or master track and drop it in an empty space (so a new track is created).
The message will disappear and not reappear if you hover over a MIDI track before dropping. Sometimes, you can maneuver in such a way to get rid of the message before dropping the device.

Hovering over the master or return tracks can quickly happen when dragging something from Live's browser but a bit too far to the right or dragging things from the desktop or Finder/Explorer.

In the Arrangement view, it only happens occasionally with plugins.

This issue still occurs in Live 12.10.1b1.
When I reported this four years ago (Live 10), they stated at that time it was a known bug.
I'm bringing up the issue with every new Live version, but as we can see, it is still not fixed.

It helps. Thank you so much!