The Ableton Q&A Thread

[symmetricalsounds]

yeah i'm just trying to think of any standard things that you could check, never seen any isssue like this. have you tried looking in the manual to see if there's reference to that beheaviour in the manual?

[Steve_French]

Press the tab button (change to performance view, then back) that usually fixes it for me. i get it sometimes

[RandoRando]

Ok i have just started using ableton and have a shit ton of questions, i would love to contribute before bombarding this thread with questions but i cant answer anything in here! : [

1. After i record a midi clip is session view, i drag the "clip" (the tiny rectangle box), and as im holding down the mouse i hit tab to open arrangement view and drop it in on its lane, is this the proper way to do this or am i doing it differently then i should.

2. what is the quickest way to go about resampling (bouncing a channel to audio), i would think to make a new audio track (how do i even do that?) and set the input to whatever channel i want to record, hit record then solo the two channels, is this correct?

3. I Figured out that using drum rack already makes a drum buss for me, but what if i wanted a bus just for my kick, one for my snares, etc. I would see to make a new drum rack for the kicks, make a rack for the snares, is this the correct way to do it?

4. how do i make a bus for just whatever? Like if i wanted fm8 and massive going to one bus.

5. How would i go about parrallel processing?

sorry for the bombardment of questions, im coming from FL and am liking live so far, and really want to learn it for its "live" features, and i want to perfrom my songs live. I want to learn how to produce on it first before getting into all the live aspects of it though.

thanks guys

[Steve_French]

Ok i have just started using ableton and have a shit ton of questions, i would love to contribute before bombarding this thread with questions but i cant answer anything in here! : [

1. After i record a midi clip is session view, i drag the "clip" (the tiny rectangle box), and as im holding down the mouse i hit tab to open arrangement view and drop it in on its lane, is this the proper way to do this or am i doing it differently then i should.

an easier way to do this is to go into the arrngement view, and select say 4 bars in your chosen track then press CTRL + SHIFT + M, this will create a new midi clip of your preferd size, then all you gotta do is recording it. this is useful because you may quite a way through your composition and want to record a new clip on the fly without having to chnge screen

2. what is the quickest way to go about resampling (bouncing a channel to audio), i would think to make a new audio track (how do i even do that?) and set the input to whatever channel i want to record, hit record then solo the two channels, is this correct?

Freeze the track you want to resample, then drag the parts of that track you want into a new audio track. (this depends on the context of what you want to resample, if you already have the track and automations etc pre programmed, then this is the best way of doing it, however the method you mentioned would be better if you wanted to record a jam for example into one track)

3. I Figured out that using drum rack already makes a drum buss for me, but what if i wanted a bus just for my kick, one for my snares, etc. I would see to make a new drum rack for the kicks, make a rack for the snares, is this the correct way to do it?

this is one of the cons of using drum racks, you send the channels in the drum racks to external sends, so if wanted to send specific kicks (for example) to an external send then you would be out of luck (i thiink that is what you were trying to ask?)

4. how do i make a bus for just whatever? Like if i wanted fm8 and massive going to one bus.

you would have to make an Instrument rack, this would enable you to play both synths at the same time and to be effected by the same effects, OR you could create the synths on 2 seperate channels (like you would normally) and then group then (by highlighting the 2 of them, then right clicking and then selecting 'group tracks'

5. How would i go about parrallel processing?

this is pretttty easy,and there are a number of ways of doing it, first to create a Send and then have to input of that bus set to recieve audio from whatever channel you want to process (EG if you wanted to process Audio channel 4, you would go to your Send channel, then on the i/o section, select its input from Audio channel 4) now you have Audio channel playing, and the bus.

the other way, which i literally only just realised, is to create an Audio Effect Rack, then create two (or more) chains, then you can have the same signal x however many chains you have, this is perfect for frequency splitting your synths

sorry for the bombardment of questions, im coming from FL and am liking live so far, and really want to learn it for its "live" features, and i want to perfrom my songs live. I want to learn how to produce on it first before getting into all the live aspects of it though.

thanks guys

[RandoRando]

Thanks man, im gettin better with it already

[symmetricalsounds]

dragging a midi clip across from session view to arrange page like that is no problem.

when you have drum racks, you can affect each channel individually and also group elements within a rack. therefore you could have several hats dropped into the rack then put an eq/compressor onto each hat then group those hats so you put whatever fx you want on the hat group then have whatever fx on the main drum rack. drum racks give you an amazing level of control.

you can create a bus for different lines to go through without having to put them into a instrument rack which can create other issues depending how you want things setup. you should read up in the manual about details on buses and setting them up.

[WanNaBeat]

Been a minute since I was actually able to put in some time, sorry to leave you guys hangin lol!! I have figured out a lot over the past few days, created a simple beat that I am pretty proud of...I now have some much more technical questions...I put up a new topic about it!! You kids are all phenomenal, thanks for your help and support!!

[DZA]

Press the tab button (change to performance view, then back) that usually fixes it for me. i get it sometimes

Why the fuck didnt i think of this!
it works SKAFE

[Steve_French]

Press the tab button (change to performance view, then back) that usually fixes it for me. i get it sometimes

Why the fuck didnt i think of this!
it works SKAFE

[WanNaBeat]

Hey all! Got a question, well, one of a million but this is the most important one to me at the moment...I saw in an instructional vid that you can stretch the sounds with the pencil tool to be more than one beat...I can't figure out how though, anyone help me out?!

[djake]

Just thought id say to any LEGAL live users that there giving away there puremagnetiks retro synths pack.

Looks pretty cool, 2.2gb of free top quality samples that work like real instruments. Sounds quite interesting as i aint looked into these packs yet.

[Morrello]

Just thought id say to any LEGAL live users that there giving away there puremagnetiks retro synths pack.

Looks pretty cool, 2.2gb of free top quality samples that work like real instruments. Sounds quite interesting as i aint looked into these packs yet.

cheers for the heads up

Have you successfully downloaded them yet? i keep getting 'invalid request' every time i try.

[djake]

Yea i downloaded them this evening and it worked fine.

Just gotta install them now, but im gunna do that tomorrow because theres like 11,000 files

[Morrello]

Yea i downloaded them this evening and it worked fine.

Just gotta install them now, but im gunna do that tomorrow because theres like 11,000 files

Hmm, you seem to one of the lucky few, a bunch of other users on the ableton forums are having the same problem.

[Sine69]

Hey all! Got a question, well, one of a million but this is the most important one to me at the moment...I saw in an instructional vid that you can stretch the sounds with the pencil tool to be more than one beat...I can't figure out how though, anyone help me out?!

I've never heard of stretching sounds with the pencil too, but you can just double click the audio clip and then press the warp button. Then just use the warp markers to stretch it out to whatever length you want.

[RandoRando]

selecting the track and then hitting ctrl shift M for a new midi track isnt working for me. any ideas? im in arrangement, select drum rack so its yellow in the sidevar on the right, and nothing happens, i have 4 bars selected to (using the time markers on top so the 4 bars are yellow)

[Steve_French]

selecting the track and then hitting ctrl shift M for a new midi track isnt working for me. any ideas? im in arrangement, select drum rack so its yellow in the sidevar on the right, and nothing happens, i have 4 bars selected to (using the time markers on top so the 4 bars are yellow)

are you on mac or windows?

try this anyway, create new midi track, then where you would paste a midi clip, click and hold the mouse over for example, 4 bars, so they turn yellow, (as if you were going to select or highlight something) then hold ctrl + Shift and m

[WanNaBeat]

Hey all! Got a question, well, one of a million but this is the most important one to me at the moment...I saw in an instructional vid that you can stretch the sounds with the pencil tool to be more than one beat...I can't figure out how though, anyone help me out?!

I've never heard of stretching sounds with the pencil too, but you can just double click the audio clip and then press the warp button. Then just use the warp markers to stretch it out to whatever length you want.

Thanks a lot man! Maybe it was that he did, he didn't say how, just did it and I couldn't figure it out!

[WanNaBeat]

Hey all! Got a question, well, one of a million but this is the most important one to me at the moment...I saw in an instructional vid that you can stretch the sounds with the pencil tool to be more than one beat...I can't figure out how though, anyone help me out?!

I've never heard of stretching sounds with the pencil too, but you can just double click the audio clip and then press the warp button. Then just use the warp markers to stretch it out to whatever length you want.

Thanks a lot man! Maybe it was that he did, he didn't say how, just did it and I couldn't figure it out! Wait, where is warp??!

[WanNaBeat]

Got it!! Aaaah man, feels great to open another door...I am lovin this!