How do you use Ableton Live 9 Lite when your limited

[Davidgotskill]

How can you use ableton live lite when your basically limited to most things? I need more ideas, maybe more samples, and more resources. I've read Ableton Live 9 Power book and i know basically the whole DAW. Im now reading Dance Music Manual by Rick Snoman so i hope that will help.

[yur2die4]

Honestly, the limitations will bother you a lot in your mind.

You'll 'want' to do anything you can dream of, but the limitations will always expect you to be very conservative with how you approach things.

In some ways, this can actually help you focus. For decades people have done plenty more with plenty less.

You might 'want' to be able to have everything as midi synths and drums and not commit to rendering them yet, but for a song to be finished, it'll eventually be rendered either way. So you can perhaps develop the practice of using a lot of audio files. If there are sounds you don't have, either make them with the tools at your disposal, or seek them out. Or if you absolutely can't find the sound, move on for now.

But the best thing you can do While you are reading these books, is to start making tracks and start finishing them. They might sound like garbage, but your first tracks will always sound like garbage. It is better to get that out of the way now so you'll develop the ability to identify possible issues.

So yeah. Keep reading the books by all means, but spend much much more time 'in the lab' applying the concepts you read.

Are there any things you read about which you are unable to do? If you list one or two specific problems maybe we can try to help.

[Davidgotskill]

Thanks so much for the response! That helped a lot. I will focus more on the science of my DAW and experimenting rather than looking for stuff that I cannot do now. Thanks for the help! Oh Yeah, and the one thing I cant do is I'm limited to 8 tracks so that really limits me. Thanks for all the help!

[jcarlson0320]

Hey there, I use "lite" and its been working out fine so far. My mind-set from the start is: "this is what i've got to work with, deal with it".

16 tracks x 8 scenes hasn't been an issue. When I do max out, I'll just save clips by dragging them to the user library, then resample in groups.

The free plugin slickEQ compensates for not having EQ-8.

The core library plus initial packs are good, free sample packs found online are good, rewiring with reason/other program is good.

So far I haven't needed to do something that lite won't allow me to. Lite users even have access to the complex warping modes within simpler.

like yur2die4 explained: Limitations help creatively. Get focused on an idea, then use your tools to make that idea happen, vs looking at all the tools, and trying to come up with ideas from the tools. Both ways work, but the first works better when you are limited. if you really need something specific, most likely you can find it.

[Davidgotskill]

The Lite version has ONLY 8 tracks and 8 scenes. You must be talking about the intro. I have the lite which is worse than the intro. Which has limited effects and basically 8 tracks. It's really hard to work with and my music is ok. How bout this, check my music on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/davidgotskill Newgrounds:

[jestermgee]

There is plenty one can do with 8 tracks. Sure you cannot create multi in/out and grouped layers for sounds but I think you underestimate just how much is possible with that much. Try working using the MOD format ans limited to just 4 tracks, no instruments, no effects, just samples.

Less can sometimes be more and I am still in the habit of culling tracks down as much as possible instead of adding more.

Can always upgrade down the track when they next have a sale.

[Razz CE]

I've made rap tunes in Suite with 8 tracks and less than 8 scenes (shrug)