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I need a new cheap way for recording my work

frustrated that I can't record linearly.
It seems that I need to perform an arrangement of scenes as a piece - out of the box to a CD recorder or WAV / mp3 recorder. Then record that back into the box to upload to the "cloud".

. . . or . . . ?

Is this a trick question? Can't you record your session into arrangement view, tweak to taste, then render as whatever format you want? Might want to sneak a peek at the manual...Please forgive me if I've misunderstood, but recording and rendering your mix is one of the raisons d'etre of Live!

oh, I am a bit dim. . .

I NEVER have worked in arrangement view - only session view, then firing scenes from there in sequence. Played today with copying & pasting clips into arrangement view & voila ! An entire linear arrangement

Thanks Huge !

I record in ableton from session to arrangement and then I send the mix from ableton through soundflower to audacity then export the file as an mp3.

If what I'm doing requires me to stop Live's transport but keep recording, I put Guitar Rig player on the Master channel and use its tape recorder to capture Live's output.

Mister Natural wrote:oh, I am a bit dim. . .

I NEVER have worked in arrangement view - only session view, then firing scenes from there in sequence. Played today with copying & pasting clips into arrangement view & voila ! An entire linear arrangement

Thanks Huge !

And you've been on here since 2007?

i just create an audio track, set input type to 'resampling'.
essentially, what this does is record the master output in realtime.

sometimes i use a microphone
sometimes i use my hands

For the set I'm recording, I usually run the master into a return bus in Live, then out of my audio interface into the studio mixer. Then, I use a send on the mixer back into another computer, which is running Live version 4. The master mix from that is sent back out into the studio mixer on another set of sends, and back into the first computer, where it is recorded into a second instance of Live version 6, running on a virtual box with a different audio interface. Finally, it's bounced around in the sends/returns until it is resampled and finally sent back out to a DAT recorder. The DAT tape is put into the mail (poor man's copyright). When it is returned to me I record it into Cubase, where it is then exported as needed.

Meowmix.

Mister Natural wrote:oh, I am a bit dim. . .

I NEVER have worked in arrangement view - only session view, then firing scenes from there in sequence. Played today with copying & pasting clips into arrangement view & voila ! An entire linear arrangement

Thanks Huge !

If that's the case what will REALLY blow your mind is when you work out what the record button at the top of the screen does!

it's clear that what I don't know about LIVE will fill a large book

can't wait to learn more here . . . thanks for the snarkey words of encouragement above

peace

I should add, in the interest of not just being snarky, that if you hit record at the top in the main transport what happens is it will record all the actions you perform in session view into the arrange view - so you can do what you've been doing triggering clips and then have a record of that performance to play back, edit or render out as an audio file. This is one the BIG things with Live.

massenmedium wrote:I should add, in the interest of not just being snarky, that if you hit record at the top in the main transport what happens is it will record all the actions you perform in session view into the arrange view - so you can do what you've been doing triggering clips and then have a record of that performance to play back, edit or render out as an audio file. This is one the BIG things with Live.

- cool tip

thanks mass

peanutpanda wrote:I record in ableton from session to arrangement and then I send the mix from ableton through soundflower to audacity then export the file as an mp3.

This is my flow too (although I skip the soundflower part, as I'm on PC, and record the master out of my audio interface into Audacity) and it works well/easy for me.