Ableton Forum

Hello Live People,

I am working with sessions in live as slave to protools. Great. Now I want to get all my tracks in protools for mixing. I don't seem to get signal through by bussing the output, setting up an audio track in protools with the same bus as imput. What am I doing wrong here? Do I have to import the files? Any kind words of advice out there?

thanks!
-J

sorry, but the bus track numbering systems simp[ly use the same numbers... they aren't actually the same busses.

Chedck the Pro Tools manual under ReWire.

Or export all from Live and import them into Pro Tools, that'll work too.

I'm not a PT user, but I think I used the buss system to bring in some Reason tracks once. Once.
Can't you input your rewire signal directly to the buss, and then route the buss to an audio track? I couldn't tell from your post if you were bussing the output from audio tracks, or just bringing the signal right into the buss.

"bus" is a generic term.

You can also create a blue track in PT and a blue track in Live, it doesn't mean they share the same audio.

"ReWire", however, is a specific term. Creating a rewire track in Live will mean that same ReWire track in another app, like Pro Tools, really is the same track-- not just one with the same name or same function or same color.

Right. Again, I'm pretty PT-slow I think I meant "Aux".

render each track on Ableton and then import to PT would be the easiest and the fastest way.
but if you still want to record each track via busses, you will have to press the Record -button on your PT Audio track, otherwise you won't get signal.

Actually you don't need to render every track and then import it to Pro Tools.

P.T. LE or TDM as well do not pass their signal through the insert while recording. I mean that if you have an insert at an armed audio track the output of the plug-in is not recorded (if you preview the region from the region lis you won't hear the effect of the insert).

So, as rewire works via inserts in P.T. in order to record the rewire tracks into Live you have to set each "Rewire track" output to a bus, and then create the right amount of audio tracks, with the buses you routed the rewired tracks as inputs. So you can record these tracks and have all the ouputs of Live as regions.

You can also mix directly Live outputs to Pro Tools similarly...

i've recently begun using PT M-powered for final mixing from live

first open PT, then add an insert-instrument-ableton. open live. set input bus, output bus and insert bus (the pop-up window) to the same bus numbers for every single track. in live, set the output bus on each track to the same number. arm your PT tracks, and arm the master record. press the space bar. you won't hear anything, but it will record. to monitor the recording, you'll have to add another instrument track (i haven't been able to get that to work consistantly).

be careful of your levels in live...PT seems to be extra sensative.

i export all my wav's then open them in PT.

i only use PT for mix downs, i used to use it for production..

its not really meant for that i guess, and its possessor unfriendly.
thats my recomendations