The Little List of Tips and Tricks

[emef]

this might be well obvious but its only just clicked for me

i'm using drumracks more and more recently
and i like to layer drums hits with multiple drum sounds on one pad
i was dragging the samples onto one pad to make a multi
but couldn't apply separate effects to the individual drum hits in multi mode
its really been annoying me

then my brain started working again
i made one of the drumrack pads into an instrument rack
now i can add as many sounds to the instrument rack as i want, apply effects to each sound individually if they need it, and play all the samples from one pad

pretty obvious but i've been scratching my head for weeks over this haha

[Tone Deft]

you can set your default template in the preferences but you can also start with a clean factory template.

Press Shift, then choose New Live Set in the File menu.

[djgroovy]

you can set your default template in the preferences but you can also start with a clean factory template.

Press Shift, then choose New Live Set in the File menu.

Nice.

[Tone Deft]

I have taken my Glitchy Bassline technique and applied it to a drum loop to get super fast mega glitched the fuck outness

http://www.vimeo.com/5705942

the thread:
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=120121

[JasonOne]

Very good tutorial. This is what beginners need to follow.

[Tone Deft]

an Abe chimes on on the latency of Live's effects.

Hi there,

the AAS instruments introduce the latency of the set CPU buffer size.

Compressor and Limiter introduce the latency of the set look-ahead. Gate has 1.5ms. Erosion has 5ms.
Reverb introduces 8 samples of latency. The other Ableton plugins have just a few samples of latency.

Best,
Michael
Ableton HQ

[3dot...]

Hotkeys to zoom display (Windoze only)
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116119

YOU'RE THE MAN !!!
tried it
and am using this heavily... thanks!

[3dot...]

an Abe chimes on on the latency of Live's effects.

Hi there,

the AAS instruments introduce the latency of the set CPU buffer size.

Compressor and Limiter introduce the latency of the set look-ahead. Gate has 1.5ms. Erosion has 5ms.
Reverb introduces 8 samples of latency. The other Ableton plugins have just a few samples of latency.

Best,
Michael
Ableton HQ

each ?

[The Phat Conductor]

an Abe chimes on on the latency of Live's effects.

Hi there,

the AAS instruments introduce the latency of the set CPU buffer size.

Compressor and Limiter introduce the latency of the set look-ahead. Gate has 1.5ms. Erosion has 5ms.
Reverb introduces 8 samples of latency. The other Ableton plugins have just a few samples of latency.

Best,
Michael
Ableton HQ

each ?

and what about sidechain compressors? i often have like 20-30 different sidechains going on and DAMN do i ever get a lot of latency...

[miccharlys]

This is very nice and good cool sharing in all

[Parametex]

Aren't all the mentioned latencies automatically compensated??

Hi there,

the AAS instruments introduce the latency of the set CPU buffer size.

Compressor and Limiter introduce the latency of the set look-ahead. Gate has 1.5ms. Erosion has 5ms.
Reverb introduces 8 samples of latency. The other Ableton plugins have just a few samples of latency.

Best,
Michael
Ableton HQ

[Guff Tong]

Picked up a proper cool tip in a magazine recently curtesy of Crazy Baldhead:

When mixing, instead of mapping a controller to the volume level,insert a gate with the threashold mapped to the controller so that instead of fading out the signal just gets more scarce...

[tcnmart.com]

yes great job dude keep it

[Tone Deft]

uber cool tip for a Live re-install and Live packs...

I have a way on a clean install. This is for Windows at least...
When you install Live, BEFORE YOU LAUNCH IT FOR THE FIRST TIME, put all your LivePacks in your DefaultPackages folder. Mine is here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ableton\Live 8.0.4\Resources\DefaultPackages

Put everything in there. When you go for the first launch, go make a sandwich and walk the dog and then mow the lawn and come back. Live will install them one after the other automatically and you don't need to be there to click Install for each one.

It's not going to speed it up, but you aint gotta sit there and click Install then OK for each one.

[3dot...]

^^ that one's great !

on another note..
I'm using the search function more and more...
does anyone have any fileSearchin' tips ?