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can anyone explain how auto hot key does things like contextual zoom and the 'select all slots in a scene' commands?

are they a serious of programmed mouse movements or some coding stuff. i'd love to port this to OSX using iKey but there's some stuff i don't know how to do.

Another person chiming in to say I'd donate for Ableton 8 support... seriously, this is needed badly.

i´ll pay 50euros for live 8 support , even more if its truly going to happen ..
can´t even switch to 8 now cause the workflow is just too fucking slow
its a shame that they didn´t put more effort for usability and workflow things ..
can´t really use ableton without vitaminL . why the fuck they don´t use that
mouse scroll zoom ?? why the fuck they don´t have shortcut customization ??
why the fuck they don´t have one key shortcuts ?? why the fuck they use so much
mouse, they really don´t know that mouse is sooooo much slower comparing to keyboard ???
mouse is good for learning things but in long run it becomes very slow comparing to
use of shortcuts

for me it`s partially working with live 8 but if it´s active the mouse wheel does no longer scroll through samples lists in browser windows.

I'm in a state of shock--I've been hapily using Vitamin L in Live 6, 7, and 8 for years just for the scroll wheel zoom in arrangerview, at the core of my audio workflow on my XP 32-bit machine. I get a 64-bit Windows 7 machine and poof, it's gone--Vitamin L doesn't work on my system. Is there any other app or workaround to get scroll wheel zooming in arrangerview on this machine???

Hard to believe we're on version 8 and still no zoom wheel???

XP 32 FTW
Im sticking with it for a while anyway. No reason to fix what works.

starting to think a bit more research was in order before jumping to Windows 7 64-bit, crap.

sorry man. I did chime in and say my new Dell Win7 64 bit was going smoothly, it is. sorry you're not having as much luck. I don't run vitamin L but I did see your problem posts elsewhere.

no sweat Tone, it may be that I haven't tweaked everything just right (yet), or maybe some weird Multiface issue--haven't had enough time to fuly diagnose. Stuff works, but wheras I was able to almost always be at 128 samples on my XP laptop (about 7 ms total latency), it seem like I need to step up to 256 on the new machine. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out the culprits--already found the wifi card as an issue...What's your buffer size? (why does that seems like a really creepy question?!?)

well, um I don't usually post personal things on the interweb but my buffer size is 480. 13ms in, 20mS out. feels faster than that. all I did was unpack the computer, install my stuff then make choons. no tweaks applied. now it's been a few weeks, I can monitor guitar/bass thru Live which I've never been able to do, Live's stable and I'm afraid to tempt fate. that and I hate wrenching on computers, what a tedious way to spend your free time.

good luck, I know you have the computer chops to get through it.

guess I've been pretty spoiled with my RME+XP combo all these years down at 6-7 ms on most Live sets. It's actually not really unusable latency on the new machine, I guess part of me is just annoyed at the number itself in light of the fact I had myself convinced the new system was going to kick ass, and am now realizing I might not get the gains I had dreamed of...prolly just need to actually make some music and stop tweaking every part of the OS and junks and get over it--totally hear you on the tedious factor--waste of my week off last week!!! thanks for sharing your size!

U guys are funny.
Yeah, tell me about it. A couple of synth developers told me I should upgrade my system so I could easier use their new VSTs. But im going to stick with what I got at least one or two more years. A synth that eats up a quad core is stupid anyway. Im not going to get a new car because I have a nice stereo that want fit.

Hey everyone,

sorry I haven't kept up with this thread for a while, been busy with a lot of other things. I am definitely planning an update for Live 8, and then a Windows 7 compatibility fix. Probably some user customizations so that you can at least choose which shortcuts you want to use. May have to make a commercial version of this, since the development is a bit involved.

Yeah man!
Please add the ability to control knobs and faders with the mouse wheel - like traction!!!

PLEASSSEEE!!!!

Thanks man!

Very impressive... One thing though: I extensely use F1 to F8 keys to Mute/Unmute tracks, why did you change it to a longer shortcut? (you added a winkey to a shortcut that was already there)

WinKey+F1..F8 = Mute/unmute track 1..8