Ableton Forum

Hey everyone, We're having a free party at the wonderful 675 Bar in celebration of the Dubspot and Ableton Live 8 tour in town. That means beers and controllers (hopefully not getting intimate with one another.) Got an unusual controller for Live? Hacked up your ReMOTE SL into pieces like Moldover? ...

Yeah, I'll also defend controls with dynamics. No, they don't compare to, say, real bongos. (But a synth keyboard is also not as sensitive to dynamics as a real piano.) But they do compare to velocity-sensitive keyboards when done right. What I find is it's not just actuating the pad, but also the f...

Never mind, just found the updated version. http://jazzmutant.com/lemuruser_moduledetails.php?id=117 And now I need to try this with Live 8. So it looks like because of the updates to the Live API, it will be possible to do some new cool stuff with clips -- in a variety of controllers, really, but e...

Hey, works for me. I think folks are missing the point - the beauty of this is the ability to have *another* tool smart enough to follow your Live set. So if you're in a cramped space where nothing else will fit, or if you need a display for the (cough) APC, or if you're doing a sound check, or if y...

Whoo! By total coincidence, I'll be in the LA area for the user group, so it sounds as though I'll make a little cameo. :) Also playing Wednesday night at the wonderful new Irwin's Conspiracy, in Venice at Air Conditioning... expect some Ableton action from myself and from Steve Nalepa, with whom I ...

I'm curious to know what others are getting here. As support had originally indicated, Live is unstable under Aero Glass. I thought that 6.0.5 had begun to address this, but perhaps not. I'm unable to use Live at *all* under Aero; I get crashes just instantiating instruments. If I boot under Aero Ba...

"Wasting time on Vista"? Hey, Live is a cross-platform app. Don't expect the Windows gang would say "don't waste your time on Mac." But point taken. :) Anyway, yes, just got a new NVIDIA build and the new Live release, and this seems to solve the major issues. I still imagine Abl...

Thanks, Alex. We've been waiting for this one, definitely. I'm suspicious that users may encounter other problems as side-effects of the graphics incompatibilities, not necessarily Ableton's fault. For instance, I'm still waiting on final, stable drivers from NVIDIA for their mobile cards. The momen...

Check comments; someone just replied who owns it. :)

I think if you're looking for a general how-to, it may not be your best bet, but having read some of the content in its Keyboard mag form it should be a great read for inspiration and idea-sparking.

I have to say, my personal favorite Vocoder is Vokator from NI. Sounds great, and has some really broad sound tools that go beyond the other options here -- makes a great synth as well as effect.

Well, the big problem with doing visuals and audio at once is CPU usage. But there's now a very effective way of doing both simultaneously if you're on the Mac: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/06/16/create-musical-visuals-with-rax-and-quartz-composer-on-mac-free-software-download/ Anything that r...

I've tried the MPD-16, Korg padKONTROL, and M-Audio Trigger Finger. While the pads aren't the best, the Trigger Finger works well as a simple controller, though I'd skip it for serious drum programming. The pads on the MPD-16 aren't anywhere near as consistent and expressive as those on the Korg. So...

I just want to put my vote in for nLite in general. I built a new machine and went with nLite for the install and was able to strip down to exactly what I wanted. (Presumably you could do the same with the TinyXP config files.) Also, it's *extremely* handy to be able to incorporate your own chipset ...

Forget it. I'd rather have a Novation X-Station for that much money. $600 with them buys you built-in effects and synth, and the keyboard feels a lot better to boot. I've posted a full comparison here: http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=44 S...

I have to vote against the M-Audio, even though everyone else loves it. I think the action, while decent, can't compete even with my original Alesis QS8 (though they've done something with the action on the new 8.2 that I REALLY don't like). I had high hopes for controlling Live. But the thing is to...