Ableton Forum

Hi Omsk411, this could be a problem how DirectShow decode MP3 files. You could try to install Quicktime which seems to behaves better concerning the decoding of MP3. If Quicktime is installed Live is using it instead of DirectShow. regards, /Alex Hi Alex--QuickTime is installed. Got it as part of i...

Yeah...I noticed this one, too--two hours before my set on New Year's Eve . Had to fix all the tracks by hand, which took about an hour. Thank goodness I thought to check the set before showtime...

For some reason, Live is adding a whole bunch of silence at the end of MP3s I've imported into my set. For example, a 7 minute song gains an additional 5 minutes of silence after importing. This only appears to happen to MP3s with VBR. CBR seems to decode properly. Windows XP SP 2 Live 5.0.3 Virus T...

Frank- I've had the same lack of success with rendering as well. Did you find out somewhere that Live "rendering" could not be done? I've been very confused and dissapointed by this...I *have* figured out that I can submix everything and use "resample" ...but that is kinda like ...

I've been asking for the same thing for the very same reasons. It makes so much sense to have remote control over those two parameters that I'm really puzzled why the geniuses at Ableton would have missed this. They've tricked out the program so much for live performance and live composition that th...

Hey, how about a MIDI-Assignable Undo? That way, when you're controlling the Live Transport from a MIDI controller, such as the M-Audio Ozonic with it's 5 transport buttons, you can undo a bad take. After all, you can start, stop, and record via MIDI, but you always have to go back to the computer k...

Hey everybody, this is Chad Carrier, author of the Ableton Live 4 Power book. Thanks for all of your kind words--I'm happy to hear you have all been getting great info from the book. As far as the web dowloads are concerned, they are almost complete. This book project was started as soon as the firs...