Ableton Forum

Seems like I've confirmed that even though I have 8 audio outputs on my audio interface, Ableton Live will only allow me to use a single stereo channel for a session. I want to be able to send each separate track to it's own dedicated output. Apparently Ableton doesn't support this...is this true?

Regards,
Jeff

no , that is not true.

it is covered in the manual. you just need to activate your outputs in preferences

But that's just the point that I've been trying to tell everybody. I've gone through and enabled ALL of the 4 stereo outputs, but whenever I go to each audio track and send it to Ext Out, ONLY the 1/2 outputs show up in the dropdown listbox.

you may also have to enable the outs on your interface itself. it probably has a control panel of its own.

ejectorset wrote:you may also have to enable the outs on your interface itself. it probably has a control panel of its own.

He speaks the truth.

Live could do a full surround setup, be patient, poke around, Live's pretty easy to set up there aren't that many menus.

These guys are quite right.

I've been doing this myself all day today, in order to set up independant headphone mixes (from the channels sends) on separate outputs on a multi-channel soundcard.

If you want to do stuff like this, make sure that you click the INPUT CONFIG and OUTPUT CONFIG buttons in the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION option, in the SETTINGS section halfway down the AUDIO tab of Ableton Live's preferences dialog.

Just choose the inputs and outputs you need - remember that enabling unused outputs does use up a bit of CPU power (not much though)

Regards,
Jezar.

Although I understand that you can send individual tracks to sepereate outputs I would like to send the master to seperate outputs i.e 1+2 to the desk and 3+4 in an onstage monitor, (this would avoid any latency issues on hearing myself). How could this be done?
The only way I can achieve this at the moment is to use the returns but this makes the set look very messy as I have returns set up for other things as well. It would be great if Live had an option to create extra rows of output options on the master.

Make any sense?
Cheers
Dan
www.myspace.com/danmayfield

Route all your tracks to a submix track. Route that track to the master out, but also set up a send/return track that is sent to your second pair of outs.

Or you could possibly do it easier directly on your sound card, depending on what kind of control software you have.