Post your most obscure Ableton Live knowledge

[Rod Underleaf]

Mod Edit: let’s please keep posts here to actual tidbits of Live knowledge.

[FurkanTopal]

When you hold option/alt and click rescan, it scans your whole hard drive, not only the selected folders below.

[NIELS ON]

This is probably common knowledge to most here, but it took me forever to figure it out so I'm posting it in case anyone here is like me...

To record automation without deleting a clip's contents (and without needing to record from session view to arrangement view) - un-arm the track you want to record the automation into and then hit the record button.

Actually a very insightful aspect of overdubbing, that is easily overlooked. I didn't remember it now, so had to check. Great one!

I have an addition to this one. You are also able to unarm a selected track even with a Push connected. If you want to record automations without affecting any existing MIDI clips or without creating new clips, simply select the "Session" button on the Push (above the Octave buttons) and you will be able to unarm / and arm completely independent from the selected track.
Push will only Auto-Arm if the "Note" Layout is selected, not when "Session" is selected.

I saw recently a YouTuber who was exited about his workaround, which is pretty unnecessary because all you need is to press Session" on your Push.
He created a blank midi track he can ARM with CMD click while the track selection remains on the track with the devices he wanted to record automations, the comment section showed that there are many Push users not knowing about this behavior, nobody seemed to know that there is no workaround needed, so even if its not obscure knowledge, its not as known as it should be.

Btw. to just protect your midi notes while recording automations it is enough to enable the plus (MIDI Arrangement Overdub) you don't need to unarm.
But it doesn't look beautiful because you will have a lot small new clips when you record automations for multiple individual parts in different takes and this can also destroy a single note here and there, so unarm is recommended anyway for automation only recordings.

[mikemc]

I am he who is that which is, and there is no other.

but besides that-- using Utility on a track as the last effect in a chain allows you to map level control separately from the mixer view's fader. This also allows you to mono-ify tracks if that is desirable, and deactivating it with a mapped button push allows you to pop faded tracks back in qne out of audible existence.

Your friend,
Utenzil

[Angstrom]

To add new sub-tags to the Live 12 browser, such as

Drums ▼
- Snare
└ Rim
└ Side Stick
└ Snare Articulation
└ Snare Hit

Click the "+ Add tag ..." and type the name of the parent category then a pipe symbol "|" then the name of your new category.

and type "Snare | Side Stick"

This will generate a new tag sub-category underneath an existing factory category

Only one level of nesting is allowed. So three levels deep such as "Snare | Side Stick | Click" is not allowed

[Quiet Erp]

C/V changes the velocity of the note when using the letter keys to input midi.
After about 15 years I only just discovered it by accident.
And yes, I did know that Z/X changes octave, before you ask......

[Pitch Black]

C/V changes the velocity of the note when using the letter keys to input midi.
After about 15 years I only just discovered it by accident.
And yes, I did know that Z/X changes octave, before you ask......

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[Quiet Erp]

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Can't tell if that was a diss or a compliment, so I'm taking it as the latter.

[Exie]

Too bad the topic faded away

Dummy audio rack can be used to automate volume/pan instead of track controls, their roles can be swapped at some point if they don't fit, with automation envelopes being copied and pasted. The important part is that audio rack has the same curve for volume, this can't be achieved with Utility

[Idemax]

I know how to do strip silence in Ableton 12!

[Sterioevo]

Maybe this has come up somewhere but I haven't found/seen it anywhere in my explorations... Max for live required

You can use the chain selector across tracks to select from up to 128 midi clips (tracks) on the fly - audio works as well but not as effectively in my experience.

Setup
Each track has its own "Chain Select Ruler" allocated (0-127) and mapped to e.g. Macro 1.
Group the tracks and place as many map8's (Max for live) as required to control all the Macro 1's (I typically use 16 tracks so 2x Map8's....) and map.
Send all tracks to the required midi destination.

That's it.
Selectable/automatable midi clip banks. Up to 128 of them...

I mostly use this for breaks/drum variations.

I can upload an example setup if there is interest.

[carrieres]

Maybe this has come up somewhere but I haven't found/seen it anywhere in my explorations... Max for live required

You can use the chain selector across tracks to select from up to 128 midi clips (tracks) on the fly - audio works as well but not as effectively in my experience.

Setup
Each track has its own "Chain Select Ruler" allocated (0-127) and mapped to e.g. Macro 1.
Group the tracks and place as many map8's (Max for live) as required to control all the Macro 1's (I typically use 16 tracks so 2x Map8's....) and map.
Send all tracks to the required midi destination.

That's it.
Selectable/automatable midi clip banks. Up to 128 of them...

I mostly use this for breaks/drum variations.

I can upload an example setup if there is interest.

Thanks, upload an example please

[Sterioevo]

See attached a simple example of 8 tracks. I placed the Map8 in a Dummy channel (rather than the group) this way you can automate in session view clip.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... share_link

[carrieres]

See attached a simple example of 8 tracks. I placed the Map8 in a Dummy channel (rather than the group) this way you can automate in session view clip.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... share_link

Thanks a lot

[lapieuvre]

See attached a simple example of 8 tracks. I placed the Map8 in a Dummy channel (rather than the group) this way you can automate in session view clip.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... share_link

Where can I find the mp8 device ?