Ableton Forum

While working on one of my currently favorite beats, I tried something unusual and I don't know why (You know how you get when you work on music for hours).

I thought that if I consolidated two different drum tracks in arrangment view, and then copy/pasted the consolidation into an audio track in session view, it would somehow stay consolidated.

I was POORLY mistaken, however! A window came up saying Ableton had experienced a serious problem and needed to shut down. NOW I CANNOT ACCESS MY BEST SONG! Every time I try to open it, the same window comes up!

Any help would be so extremely appreciated. Is there any way to access my song as I did before?

Thanks for any help!
Chase

bauer.cc wrote:NOW I CANNOT ACCESS MY BEST SONG!
Chase

sorry tenacious d..



you're shit out of luck

bauer.cc wrote: I was POORLY mistaken, however!

I don't think you were mistaken. But it seems something funky happened

Maybe you can email Ableton for help, or maybe you can rebuild something from the audio files in the project folder?

did you try to restore your system to an earlier date? Some files this reverts some it doesn't depending on your OS. Make sure you set restore points once or twice a day. Another really good habit is to save the same song as different filenames like example_01.als then after youve done a decent amount of work save as example_02.als and so on until you are at example_23.als and the mix is just right with that bass hitting hard... Its fun to go back and listen to what I originally had in mind while creating sounds and such VS the final product.
anyway, try the restore point. if not you might try to go delete your system prefrences file. or maybe move one of the samples you are pasting out of the current directory so it cant be located in the track.... Those are all the ideas I can scrounge up for now. good luck