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

rhedcerulean · Post by **rhedcerulean** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:49 pm

emptypond wrote:the keyboard shortcut section of the manual

..and holding alt while readjusting channel width to adjust all chans at once..

I love it! Ive needed this. what a life saver whrn Ive got like 19 tracks on the page. Thanx

onslaught · Post by **onslaught** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:01 pm

oevboev wrote:"I discovered that in OSX alt/f4 opens sys. prefs to the sound control panel..."

- Not true on my MacBook. Anyone know why?

Try pressing with the FN key.

You probably have this selected.

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:23 pm

onslaught wrote:
oevboev wrote:"I discovered that in OSX alt/f4 opens sys. prefs to the sound control panel..."

- Not true on my MacBook. Anyone know why?

Try pressing with the FN key.

You probably have this selected.

THANK YOU ONSLAUGHT - You totally saved my day! fn+alt+f4 with that thing selected works like a dream! Also, thank you for making such a delicious screenshot - it all became crystalclear

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:33 pm

Keeping an unanswered question alive here in the thread of all threads, I've really learned a lot.
Here goes:
How do I turn down the volume on all tracks at once in session view? Don't write "the master fader"

Hope somebody knows

Cheers

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:26 pm

oevboev wrote:Keeping an unanswered question alive here in the thread of all threads, I've really learned a lot.
Here goes:
How do I turn down the volume on all tracks at once in session view? Don't write "the master fader"
Hope somebody knows
Cheers

Route them all to a 'pre-master' audio channel or send?

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:27 pm

onslaught wrote:Try pressing with the FN key.

I just figured out why it's not working for me. There's no fn key on my apple bluetooth keyboard.

It's on my powerbook keyboard though and I can get it to work there. I wonder why they left it off the bluetooth keyboard...

buckman · Post by **buckman** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:40 pm

does ANYBODY know...

something thats always bothered me but maybe dead simple that 'i have overlooked???

In Arrangement view - when i record any midi clips say, a 4 bar loop, when the record cycle goes around a couple of times so i can get the part right..

When i stop recording the track SPLITS where i stop it? then i have to go delete the part of the track that i no longer need, and then onto the piano roll and re-trim the midi part up to 4 bars!!

Is there a quicker way to doa ll this in the arrangement view??

onslaught · Post by **onslaught** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:57 pm

icedsushi wrote:
onslaught wrote:Try pressing with the FN key.
I just figured out why it's not working for me. There's no fn key on my apple bluetooth keyboard.

It's on my powerbook keyboard though and I can get it to work there. I wonder why they left it off the bluetooth keyboard...

I think it's cause on a laptop certain Function keys are 'hardwired' to hardware controls and for some reason the layout on the free standing keyboards are different (guess cause there is more keys?).
I recently got one of the new apple keyboards and they have changed the function key layout. So now there's the laptop layout, the older keyboard layout and the current layout = more shortcuts to remember.
Example:
Laptop: f3, f4, f5 = audio
Old keyboard: f17, f18, f19 = audio
New keyboard: f10, f11, f12 = audio

rhedcerulean · Post by **rhedcerulean** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:50 am

Fever606 wrote:Command-Click (Mac) on the solo buttons to solo more than one track. I seriously did a little dance late one night when I stumbled upon that.

its funny beacuse last week i was screeming at the softwere for not having that function.

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:10 am

I just got a fit of stubbernness(forgive me) and decided to quote myself:)

oevboev wrote:Keeping an unanswered question alive here in the thread of all threads, I've really learned a lot.
Here goes:
How do I turn down the volume on all tracks at once in session view? Don't write "the master fader"
Hope somebody knows
Cheers

If someone is in doubt of exactly what I mean: I just am dying to be able to lower or rise the volume on all tracks by pulling the track faders while pressing some probably obscure short cut so they all move at once. I've seen this done in NoTools several times...

EDIT: After writing this I saw that djgroovy had replied, thx dude, by suggesting that I route all tracks to a 'pre-master' audio channel or send. Thats a really good idea! I'll do that from now! But surely Live must have an option to move all faders at once

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:17 am

oevboev wrote:
onslaught wrote:
oevboev wrote:"I discovered that in OSX alt/f4 opens sys. prefs to the sound control panel..."

- Not true on my MacBook. Anyone know why?

Try pressing with the FN key.

You probably have this selected.

THANK YOU ONSLAUGHT - You totally saved my day! fn+alt+f4 with that thing selected works like a dream! Also, thank you for making such a delicious screenshot - it all became crystalclear

Hey, Mac users, check out this freeware app called Soundsource. It puts a nifty selector right in your menu-bar along with shortcuts to audio and MIDI prefs.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:03 am

oevboev wrote:I just got a fit of stubbernness(forgive me) and decided to quote myself:)

oevboev wrote:Keeping an unanswered question alive here in the thread of all threads, I've really learned a lot.
Here goes:
How do I turn down the volume on all tracks at once in session view? Don't write "the master fader"
Hope somebody knows
Cheers
If someone is in doubt of exactly what I mean: I just am dying to be able to lower or rise the volume on all tracks by pulling the track faders while pressing some probably obscure short cut so they all move at once. I've seen this done in NoTools several times...

EDIT: After writing this I saw that djgroovy had replied, thx dude, by suggesting that I route all tracks to a 'pre-master' audio channel or send. Thats a really good idea! I'll do that from now! But surely Live must have an option to move all faders at once

no it hasnt. but you can assign a knob to all faders so i guess you can do it that way but im not sure if relative levels would be kept

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:04 am

buckman wrote:does ANYBODY know...

something thats always bothered me but maybe dead simple that 'i have overlooked???

In Arrangement view - when i record any midi clips say, a 4 bar loop, when the record cycle goes around a couple of times so i can get the part right..

When i stop recording the track SPLITS where i stop it? then i have to go delete the part of the track that i no longer need, and then onto the piano roll and re-trim the midi part up to 4 bars!!

Is there a quicker way to doa ll this in the arrangement view??

consolidate?

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:25 pm

not sure if this has been posted, but one thing that i actually didnt notice until 5 minutes ago is this:

hold down ctrl while moving a fader - slower response. great for finetuning levels.

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:28 pm

pitch black, thx for soundsourge advice - i use it now!