Help please..using midi with ableton

[nine01n]

Okay..I am recording my bands demo with a Line 6 UX1 that I bought. We have recorded before just demos, but without a metronome. But this time we want to have a 'real' demo, so I made click tracks, because our songs have tempo changes and I can't for the life of me figure out how to do that in Ableton. I have the click tracks saved as a midi. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium, and Live Lite 5 Line 6 Edition. Here is what I am doing..

1. i open up the software
2. in the top right i click the 3 horizontal lines to switch the view.
3. i click and drag the midi into one of the 4 midi channels that i have.
4. i click play, and i hear no sound, however when i click the down arrow next to the track i can definitely see that it is working. (the little sound bar jumps to the clicks)

..i need to be able to hear this while I am recording..then I will take it out and leave only the guitar track. help please?

[Liam]

1. Try the tutorials?

Look under the Help menu command.

2. Read the manual.

You need to activate the midi in and out options in Preferences.

Then for each track (the clips on those tracks will then send midi data to the selected device for that track).

For further help seriously see 1 and 2 above.

[mr-e]

getting sound out of midi track :
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a midi track is nothing without an instrument to play it
--> drag a simpler instrument onto the midi track
--> drag a sample (click / hihat / ...) into the simpler
--> now your miditrack will be played by the simpler instrument and all wonderfull clicks should come out of your speakers tadaaa

BUT

ableton actually has a built-in metronome / clicktrack :
check the buttons next to the BPM in the top left corner , one of them will enable the 'click' --> now all you have to do is determine the desired bpm (see below) and off you go

variable BPM :
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2 options :
a) arange window --> modify tempo track --> this way you can gradually increase/decrease tempo
b) session view --> scene --> edit launch tempo

this forumtopic explains it well :
http://www.bwacksforum.com/forums/showt ... hp4?t=5288

[nine01n]

yeah uhm i dont get what you mean drag a simpler instrument onto the midi track..