The Ableton Q&A Thread

[Disco Nutter]

I work in arrangement view almost exclusively, except when playing out.

[contakt321]

which view do you guys normally use to record in?

I used to start in Session, get a groove and then switch to Arrange, but now I just work in Arrange. I move faster and it keeps me in "songwriting mode", as opposed to "cool patterns" mode.

[deamonds]

yea i was gonna say, i can never start in session, i always use ableton like fruity lol

[symmetricalsounds]

i used to have a system where i would start session and record a take to arrangement and build from there, now it really depends on the situation. sometimes makes more sense to be on arrange page from the start.

[SuperRyDog]

Prob easy question, I have a piano sample, which is just piano. I really want to use that same melody in multiple synths. Is there a way to get that melody in MIDI from the audio file I have? It doesnt have to be in Ableton, this is just what Im most familiar with.

Thank you!

[Morrello]

Prob easy question, I have a piano sample, which is just piano. I really want to use that same melody in multiple synths. Is there a way to get that melody in MIDI from the audio file I have? It doesnt have to be in Ableton, this is just what Im most familiar with.

Thank you!

Depending on how complex the piece is you can do it in ableton by dropping a spectrum analyzer on the channel with your piano sample, from there you will be able to hover your mouse over the peaks and it will tell you what note is being played.

[SuperRyDog]

Worked, thank you.

[symmetricalsounds]

Prob easy question, I have a piano sample, which is just piano. I really want to use that same melody in multiple synths. Is there a way to get that melody in MIDI from the audio file I have? It doesnt have to be in Ableton, this is just what Im most familiar with.

Thank you!

Depending on how complex the piece is you can do it in ableton by dropping a spectrum analyzer on the channel with your piano sample, from there you will be able to hover your mouse over the peaks and it will tell you what note is being played.

also you can press a button so that instead of the frequency numbers along the top it shows the notes.

[Morrello]

Prob easy question, I have a piano sample, which is just piano. I really want to use that same melody in multiple synths. Is there a way to get that melody in MIDI from the audio file I have? It doesnt have to be in Ableton, this is just what Im most familiar with.

Thank you!

Depending on how complex the piece is you can do it in ableton by dropping a spectrum analyzer on the channel with your piano sample, from there you will be able to hover your mouse over the peaks and it will tell you what note is being played.

also you can press a button so that instead of the frequency numbers along the top it shows the notes.

Did not know that, i always leave it on the logarithmic scale.

cheers!

[Phongs]

Hello, I am using Ableton with a MIDI controller, and I was wondering if it is possible to have ableton toggle/show the effect being modulated by my MIDI controller. For instance I have two tracks set up like deck A and deck B. Each one has an audio effects rack with an eq3 and auto filter, both have corresponding knobs on the MIDI controller, and when I have one decks effects chain shown and use a knob for the other deck I can not see exactly what's going on. Thanks in advance, hopefully I was clear enough.

[subsynth]

Hello, I am using Ableton with a MIDI controller, and I was wondering if it is possible to have ableton toggle/show the effect being modulated by my MIDI controller.

The work around I came up with is to midi map the selection of the return group to a button, that way when you click the midi button it shows you the interface for return A or B or whatever...

I use this to bring the looper GUI into focus.

[Phongs]

The work around I came up with is to midi map the selection of the return group to a button, that way when you click the midi button it shows you the interface for return A or B or whatever...

That's a nice lil' work around. Thank you very much, it works just like I needed.

[Ascian]

I have a problem that has really been bugging me!

I finished a tune a while ago but when I try to export the track, it messes up somewhere along the line and the resulting waveform looks like this (imported back into the Ableton project):



It's only this project doing it, I've exported various loops, songs, basses, whole projects. I've even tried saving copies and exporting those.

It seems like the reason this is happening is that one channel group keeps feeding back into itself or feeding back in some way:




I don't understand why it's doing that as it's routed correctly and there is nothing weird in the effects chain:





ANY IDEAS!? It's annoying as it's probably one of my favourite efforts!

[symmetricalsounds]

try turning that channel off and see if it exports properly, i know that doesn't solve the problem but at least would know for sure if it's that channel that is the root of the issue.

[Ascian]

try turning that channel off and see if it exports properly, i know that doesn't solve the problem but at least would know for sure if it's that channel that is the root of the issue.

Yeah I had tried that before.. Have just remade the synth! Not as good as I remember the old one was but then again I'm sure a lot of people use that excuse!

Cheers for your help mate

The tune is in my sig below (Another Planet) incase you fancy a tinkle

[symmetricalsounds]

try turning that channel off and see if it exports properly, i know that doesn't solve the problem but at least would know for sure if it's that channel that is the root of the issue.

Yeah I had tried that before..

and what happened?

it did export fine or it didn't?

you say you remade the synth, did you try just saving the settings before as a preset and then bringing that back into the project?

no worries that you got it sorted through another path but i am kinda curious as to what the issue was, not something i've seen before.

[Disco Nutter]

Most probably it had something to do with FM8's settings...

[jyro]

I was wondering, is there any way I can switch a track I made in arrangement view over to session view so as I can perform it live? Or do I have to sort of rebuild the track?

Also, can anyone suggest any decent vids/tutorials for using the session view live please? I had a look on youtube but there was nothing too helpful.

[Disco Nutter]

Cut it up in bars and move them to session view?

[symmetricalsounds]

Cut it up in bars and move them to session view?

yup, there isn't some magic button to take stuff on the arrange page to session view.

also look for the tom cosm tutorials about session view, he has plenty on that.