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Ok, so I am running through one of the tutorials from the computer music magazine - they included the Ableton Live project file, which contained Sampler. So I enabled the demo mode of Sampler and play around with it for a while.

Anyway - back to work, open my saved project and proceed to work about 5 hours on my set. I then try and save and you will never guess what?


That's right. It won't let me save my work even though I have not used Sampler at all in it!? So I go to settings and disable Sampler and I get a rather cheerful message comforting me with the fact that the NEXT SET I OPEN I WILL BE ABLE TO SAVE!!!!!!

I so much want to wring the neck of the little fucker in Ableton who coded that patronising message.

unklmic wrote:Ok, so I am running through one of the tutorials from the computer music magazine - they included the Ableton Live project file, which contained Sampler. So I enabled the demo mode of Sampler and play around with it for a while.

Anyway - back to work, open my saved project and proceed to work about 5 hours on my set. I then try and save and you will never guess what?


That's right. It won't let me save my work even though I have not used Sampler at all in it!? So I go to settings and disable Sampler and I get a rather cheerful message comforting me with the fact that the NEXT SET I OPEN I WILL BE ABLE TO SAVE!!!!!!

I so much want to wring the neck of the little fucker in Ableton who coded that patronising message.

my personal belief is that copy protection always hurts the consumer in the end.

sorry to hear this

I've experienced this before as well. personally I think it's bullshit if you aren't even using operator or sampler in your set then it should automatically stop being in demo mode, if you add them to a set it goes into demo mode, if you delete them from a set it goes out of demo mode.

I THINK what you can do is crash live and then restart it and let it recover your work. but I don't know for sure if it'll work.

yep

kill the task in task manager

reopen

recover

only way with possibilities to get out of this

this is completly stupid but maybe its cause if you can shut sampler in your set and quit demo mode you will be able to keep some audio file u did by bouncing them and save them once sampler is disabled

why would you wait five hours to save something?

Was the info bar red that whole time?

how about we put a post about this under "feature wish list"

Yeah, I wish that everybody would buy Sampler



But seriously, it's pretty easy to understand the logic behind not exiting demo mode just because you've deleted the device - in the meantime you could have bounced it all down to audio.

All the same it's not like I don't understand the frustration.

ok enough edits haha

snowtires wrote:why would you wait five hours to save something?

What he said.

popslut wrote:

snowtires wrote:why would you wait five hours to save something?

What he said.

what both these guys said.

b0unce wrote:

popslut wrote:

snowtires wrote:why would you wait five hours to save something?

What he said.

what both these guys said.

Not to minimize your problem at all, because that really sucks.

But yeah, what they said.