10 New Ableton Live Skins

glu · Post by **glu** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:24 pm

thanks! I LOVE TO WAKE UP to new skins on a sunday~

jackmazzotti · Post by **jackmazzotti** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:33 pm

M. Bréqs wrote:
jackmazzotti wrote:hi
all of the skins download as .txt files instead of .ask files
Try changing the extension...

i actually tried changing one of lives skins into text and then back again
now live doesn't recognise it

Michael Hatsis · Post by **Michael Hatsis** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:33 pm

Nice work...Im lovin "Modern Red". Any word from the abes about your editor?

Peace-
Michael

koneko · Post by **koneko** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:40 pm

hey thanks ..!
but am i the only one who didnt manage it??
im on os x. downloaded some to test, put the skins in the skins folder, relaunched live... new skins dont show. any idea?

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:44 pm

koneko wrote:hey thanks ..!
but am i the only one who didnt manage it??
im on os x. downloaded some to test, put the skins in the skins folder, relaunched live... new skins dont show. any idea?

delete the .txt extension..

if that doesn't work; show info for file and delete the extension in the info box..

sometimes when you delete an extension in the finder it doesn't delete the extension but actually hides it..
In that case the file is still a .txt file and live won't recognize it..

glu · Post by **glu** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:53 pm

sqook wrote: If you read the thread linked by the OP, you'll see that it's basically because the skin format is a bit messy, and may change drastically without notice between versions. Basically, it's a matter of liability...

It would be amazing if the abes included a skin designer for live in the future, as long as it didn't set them back in coding a functional product of course.

BinaryB · Post by **BinaryB** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:54 am

please vote if you want to.

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48087

Ableton Approved Hardware Poll

mattsonic · Post by **mattsonic** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:39 am

Hi all! So far I haven't heard anything from Ableton about the editor. However, I have received an amazing amount of requests for its illegal release. Sorry, it isn't going to happen.

jackmazzotti - if you are on a Mac, possibly try to ctrl-click the skin link and then select Save As.

BTW, more skins are now available. Thanks for the feedback!

Happy Producing,

Matt Sonic

djc · Post by **djc** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:57 am

If this can be done I would really like if we could have a midi/key editor like this so we can have live as custom boot of your custom layouts. Or another way like how you change skins you change you layouts.

dirtybomb · Post by **dirtybomb** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:06 am

kewl man... I saw you had an Impulse Tracker skin hehe... always hated IT, but FastTracker ownZ, even still.

How about making some FastTracker skins? like LiTHe dark, Blues & Space Pigs!

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:35 am

So they didn't fix the file format and include the ability to customise colors
in L6? Even after all the 10+ page threads about shitty skins?

Come-on abes, that one was a no-brainer, lots more important then video support.

-Ben

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:29 am

YOU RAWK!!!!

these are the best skins yet - thank you!

Alien Leg · Post by **Alien Leg** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:39 am

Thanx for the skins mattsonic! Apart from the dark ones (where the midi editor is too dark for my taste) i like the modern red one. But it has a problem with the macro knobs not displaying correctly (also drive, freq and res in Impulse etc).

mattsonic · Post by **mattsonic** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:12 am

dirtybomb - good idea about the FastTracker skins, even though FT is totally lame compared to IT2

djc - changing the layout would require reverse engineering the whole program and the hack would stop working every time a new version of Live comes out. Your best bet is to lobby the programmers. For the record, I'd love to see a layout editor too.

Also, more skins are now in the library.

Happy Producing!

Matt Sonic

kechambe · Post by **kechambe** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:52 am

It looks like a great app. You should release it. They aren't going to sue you and you won't go to jail. Trust me...