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Got a new Macbook Pro yesterday. I have all my ableton files on an external hard drive and I'm just wondering how to go about using everything now. My hard drive is smaller than before, so I don't want to transfer everything on to the new computer. I will keep everything on the external drive. So ho...

doghouse wrote:The obvious question is what has changed recently? New mchine, new version of Live, new OS, etc.?

Nothing has changed. Same machine, same version of Live, no new OS. Literally nothing has changed, except Live overloading the CPU and distorting like crazy on playback.

I've had a strange thing happening lately. I'm a Mac user and have run Ableton for years with no issues. But lately my CPU has been overloading even while doing very simple, minimal work with Ableton. I opened up the Activity Monitor and noticed that Ableton is using about 20% of the CPU when it's j...

Ok, so I've experimented with a way of normalizing the tracks that I think makes sense. If I'm wrong, let me know... I've opened up a new ableton files and I've created about 30 audio tracks. I loaded each backing track in to each individual track and I'm going through them 1 at a time to see where ...

Is there a simple way to normalize my backing tracks so that my sound man doesn't have to ride the fader all night long? All my tracks are rendered to a .wav format. I just want to have them all be the same volume. How do I do it?

When I install the new driver, my Mac doesn't even see the device, nor does the software even show up in my Launchpad(which it did before). I'm at a serious loss with this one....

Ok, Fortunately I realized that I can use the USB thumb drive to upload the files. I had never done that before, so I didn't think of it. But, I still need to figure out WTH is going on with the software. The updated software is not seeming to work.

I'm preparing for a gig that I have to leave at 7am for in the morning and I need help!!! I recently upgraded my IOS to El Capitan and I haven't used my SPD-SX since upgrading. Not sure if that has anything to do with my issue, but when I open the SPD-SX software and select .wav files to upload, the...

Apparently I've asked a question that has no answer. Even Roland can't explain it to me....

I'm desperately seeking help, since the owners manual is worthless. I've posted on the vdrums forum and any other forum that may have someone in it that can help me. I'm trusting that my Ableton family will come through, since we're all much more intelligent than the rest of them. LOL I bought an SP...

So what you're telling me is that this pain in the ass way of getting sound to my monitors is actually the best way? SMDH :P Took a quick look at the Presonus website and it turns out that your interface comes with "Universal Control", Presonus' stand-alone mixer interface software. This ...

Unless your audio interface came with its own mixer software, this might be exactly how you have to do it. Most of the audio interfaces I've worked with require some sort of software interface actively running on the desktop to manage the routing inside the audio interface. Of course, Ableton handl...

Unless your audio interface came with its own mixer software, this might be exactly how you have to do it. Most of the audio interfaces I've worked with require some sort of software interface actively running on the desktop to manage the routing inside the audio interface. Of course, Ableton handl...

I bought a Roland SPD-SX yesterday and I'm trying to figure out how to properly connect it to my interface in order to get the sound through my system. Here is my system, please advice... I'm using a Presonus Firestudio, which is connected via Firewire to my Macbook Pro. I have studio monitors conne...

Ok, so while I've got this thread active, I'll keep my next question here.. If I wanted to eliminate taking my Mac book everywhere I play, what would be some reliable solutions to that? I'd need to be able to have the ability to have a click track going to my band's ears, while sending the loops/seq...