The Little List of Tips and Tricks

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:11 pm

awesome mixing secrets tutorial video from this russian cat andi vax http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =314207847

it's changed the way i do a lot of things. the guy is a mad genius and a total sweetheart to boot!

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:31 pm

how to use logic instruments inside live...(using soundflower, iac, and aggregate devices)
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86976

inspired by
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86890

apparently thanks to gomi (found this thread)

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

although soundflower worked fine for me as of 3-1-8.

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:44 pm

the mixing thread:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86956

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:04 am

a generic answer to 'what is latency'.
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 669#645669

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:06 am

how to have sex with a dolphin.
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 325#664325
hey, I don't find these links, I just sticky them.

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:07 am

oh shit! i was wondering how to have sex with a dolphin! thanks man!

sampler tip: pitch your drums with scale set at <100%

this way you can pitch a drum sample around without it sounding like 1994 era ragga jungle. awesome for glitchy clicks and congas and shit. try it!

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:09 am

The Phat Conductor wrote:oh shit! i was wondering how to have sex with a dolphin! thanks man!

sampler tip: pitch your drums with scale set at <100%

this way you can pitch a drum sample around without it sounding like 1994 era ragga jungle. awesome for glitchy clicks and congas and shit. try it!

nice one

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:11 am

here's some info on using the Nintendo Wiimote to control Live

I will make a comprehensive thread on it later describing my steps from the start

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68280

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88604

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

http://www.theamazingrolo.net/wii/

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:21 am

here's a thread on using GlovePIE to create MIDI and OSC messages using almost anything as an input device

this started as a Wiimote specific thing, but once you start getting into GLovePIE you'll realise it's insanely powerful and can do so much more

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88813

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:21 pm

OT tip, but might save a few RTFM type answers

if you have firefox and somebody mentions something in the forum you don't know about, select the word or term, right click on it "search google for..."

you dont even have to type things into Google any more, so there's no excuse!

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:37 am

Mike@Trackteamaudio's solution to selecting devices with a MIDI controller

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 834#669834

DjViral · Post by **DjViral** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:39 am

forge wrote:OT tip, but might save a few RTFM type answers

if you have firefox and somebody mentions something in the forum you don't know about, select the word or term, right click on it "search google for..."

you dont even have to type things into Google any more, so there's no excuse!

WOW lol i actually didn't know that . thats soo easy lol.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:54 am

tonearm's "Vitamin L: 100+ shortcuts to speed up your workflow (a lot)."
list of features ----> http://tonearm.net/musictools/vitaminl_shortcuts.html

download
http://tonearm.net/musictools/vitaminl.html

thread
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

mattjhuber · Post by **mattjhuber** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:26 pm

Regarding the one with Automat's Attack...I just did a video tutorial on how to use its attack envelope for any sampled sound or softsynth...check it out.

http://matthuber.wordpress.com/2008/04/ ... al-3-pads/

forge · Post by **forge** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:21 am

::FINDING LOST SAMPLES FROM OLD SETS THE EASY WAY::

I just discovered you can drag and drop straight from Locate32 into file manager

Locate32 is a very quick, low overhead free download file searcher for PC - you can probably do all of this with finder on OSX

If I load up an old set where Live can't find any samples, I just click on the orange bar to get up the file manager, key in enough of one filename to make it distinct in Locate32, search with all of my hard drives plugged in, and then drag the folder the file is in to the area in file manager under the 'search folder 'with only that button enabled (not library or anything else) then hit 'GO'

the whole process takes a few seconds and is the quickest way I've come up with so far of finding lost files

and now what I'm doing is saving the set to a new folder where I'm consolidating everything by year folders so Live creates a new project, then do 'collect all and save'

after doing that I should never have this problem again, as overall the thing I find most problematic is old live sets that pre-date the projects/file manager system