Stuff in Live you wish you figured out a long time ago

madhattared · Post by **madhattared** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:36 am

sweeeeeeeeeet.

siliconarc · Post by **siliconarc** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:31 pm

i only just discovered the 'Fixed Grid' option.
oarrr mahhhh goarrrd!

can't believe i've been going nuts all this time trying to figure where i am in the midi editor - you know, you zoom in on the notes you want to edit, and yet more grid lines pop up the further zoomed in you go..? not any more, OH N-N-NO!

just fix the grid at the resolution you want to edit in; zoom in a bit, no more lines are spawned! huzzah!

dr.wackler · Post by **dr.wackler** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:16 am

"Esc" key can be used to cancel a 'save preset' procedure (e.g. when you accidentally clicked on the 'save' button). I didn't know that before, and am glad it was mentioned in this thread:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

raoulflutter · Post by **raoulflutter** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:55 pm

Is there a shortcut to put metronome on/off?

pabloaugustus · Post by **pabloaugustus** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:33 pm

Piplodocus wrote:I discovered yesterday that all of my midi interfaces in preferences have little arrows to expand the settings (oddly enough, just like the little arrows in the browser. Doh! Pillock!). If I then set my newly found MIDI input type option to MME, my terrible drumming on my cheap midi drum kit isn't quite as out of time as I thought it was! Poor latency + my poor drum coordination = no good for quantising!!!

I know I'm white, but I still thought I had better rhythm than that!

This thread's great! I'll have to read it once a week til I remember half of it though. I can use that forum shortcut from live now though!

Sweet, i never noticed that arrow either, I don't see MME though. Is this a new option? I'm using live 6.05 I just have the sync type: MTC or Midi Clock.

BTW, does anybody know how you can do a sync test to find your midi latency and calculate an accurate offset for the midi input similar to how you test the audio latency. Without a way to edit midi time code (btwbtw, why the hell would a sequencer not have this ability?) I can't think of how you would do it, but I'm sure one of you gurus know what up. I tried searching to see if its been covered, but, well, you know how that goes.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:59 pm

pabloaugustus wrote: BTW, does anybody know how you can do a sync test to find your midi latency and calculate an accurate offset for the midi input similar to how you test the audio latency. .

if you open Live's Lessons there is a Lesson there that will open a special Live file. It will guide you through the process.
I only found this crucial fact out earlier this year!

Help-> all lessons ... hardware setup I think.

handojin · Post by **handojin** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:02 pm

if you record midi with record quantization using undo right after recording will remove the quantize
(handy for live midi looping)
pretty straight forward but never realized it till recently

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:51 pm

Something so basic, but...

I had no idea, that in order to to create feedback, you must enable the return sends!! (right click on the fader: enable 1/all)
I actually saw it on this dub delay in LIVE video: http://www.covops.org/

But if you look at it, look at "Vimeo" video, much better quality.

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:32 pm

garyboozy wrote:i only just discovered the 'Fixed Grid' option.
oarrr mahhhh goarrrd!

can't believe i've been going nuts all this time trying to figure where i am in the midi editor - you know, you zoom in on the notes you want to edit, and yet more grid lines pop up the further zoomed in you go..? not any more, OH N-N-NO!

just fix the grid at the resolution you want to edit in; zoom in a bit, no more lines are spawned! huzzah!

what the ff...
you just saved me some headache hah.

Fever606 · Post by **Fever606** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:27 pm

raoulflutter wrote:Is there a shortcut to put metronome on/off?

No. What I did was set a key (in my case the ` key up there under esc) to toggle the metronome in Key Map mode, then saved it to my default template (along with a grip of other keys mapped to various functions).

alex.the.forge · Post by **alex.the.forge** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:02 am

you can use Shift+Return to preview in the browser without haivng the preview button enabled - just noticed this in the manual!

glu · Post by **glu** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:05 am

alex.the.forge wrote:you can use Shift+Return to preview in the browser without haivng the preview button enabled - just noticed this in the manual!

thanks alexTHEforge!

alex.the.forge · Post by **alex.the.forge** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:08 am

BTW - friend_kami - stop posting NOW!

friend_kami

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friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:50 pm

too late. :p

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:47 pm

Tone Deft wrote: feature I wish I didn't know about:
alt - h - j to get to the forum

Very cool thread.

Holy shit