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Does this help? https://www.ableton.com/en/help/article/live-9-import-live-8-library/ Thanks. I found those instructions earlier but they only seem to apply to installing Live 9 on a system that already has Live 8, whereas here I have installed 9 afresh on a new computer. I wonder if it could be th...

I've installed Live 9 on a MacBook Pro (with MacOS X El Capitan), having previously only ever used Windows systems. I noticed that the Live 8 Library was missing and its location 'not set' according to the information in preferences. So I downloaded the Live 8 legacy library and installed it but sti...

Tone Deft wrote: arrange view
select all the tracks
warp the top one
the rest will follow

It may well be that I have been making this more complicated for myself than is necessary.

I shall try what you suggest and see what happens.

Thanks.

I'm trying to remix some songs that I recorded many years ago on 16-track analogue tape, which I've had converted to digital format. When I import the WAV files from the original recording into Ableton Live, set the appropriate tempo and then try to run the audio alongside the MIDI sequence data, I ...

Hello, If you installed Live or Suite 8.2 already, you can go with the "Program only" download. It does contain the updates to content, basically everything mentioned in the release notes. Kind regards, Amaury I think it would be helpful if this statement was included every time an update...

Has anyone here checked out the new Mobile Sound Canvas? It's branded as Cakewalk in the publicity but marked as a Roland in the photos I've seen (I know they're both owned by Roland). It looks interesting as a way of playing back songs in a live setting where portability is important. But, apart fr...

The 'clandestine' element is rather undermined by writing about it on a website.

I bought the Zed-12FX a couple of weeks ago. It's basically the Zed-14 minus a stereo channel but with an effects processor included. I can confirm what's been said already: the audio interface is only 16-bit, uses USB 1.1 and only handles stereo. So don't buy it if your main intended use is as an a...

The big red button did the job. Thanks.

Knew it would be staring me in the face.

Working in the Arrangement View, I imported some MIDI tracks into Live from a song I'd originally programmed on another sequencer, and I assigned VST instruments to them. Next I switched to Session View, created an audio track and experimented with various drum loop samples. I placed some of those l...

Thanks for the advice, looks like I'm going to pick up an APC40! One negative about the APC40 that might be worth mentioning. Just so that you have the full picture. It won't work off bus power alone. You have to use its power supply unit. Akai say that bus power isn't sufficient due to the many fl...

looks like the APC will be the winner, now I need to decide if I want the 20 or 40? Are the knobs that important? The knobs are useful if you use a lot of Live's built-in effects. Not so useful if you mainly use third party plug-ins. The APC20 will save you both money and deskspace. The question is...

Given a choice between Akai's APC20 or APC40 and Novation's Launchpad, I'd definitely go for the APCs because they include standard transport controls and faders whereas the Launchpad does not. That means they're useful in both the session and arrangement views; the Launchpad only seems useful in th...

Don't panic, this is a very common problem. Your files sound like they are type 0 smf files, you need type 1. If you are on a Mac this strangely named free program 'Dent du Midi' http://homepage.mac.com/beryrinaldo/ddm/ will convert your midi type 0 file into separate midi type 1 files for each ins...

I already own an APC40 so I'm not likely to buy the APC20. However, I do think it's a reasonable addition to the APC range and one that has the edge over Novation's Launchpad. The great weakness of the Launchpad, for my money, is its lack of transport controls. It's only useful for working with clip...