Ableton Live

[rstn]

Sadly, I haven’t been able to get the script to work in Live 10 but the OP-1 used to work nicely as a transport control for Live. . .
https://teenage.engineering/guides/op-1/song-rendering-and-connectivity

[eblomquist]

Happy to report that Touchable is now connecting again after they updated the iOS app and Mac server!

It’s really very useful if you use Live and have iOS devices. There is also a Windows/Android version but I can’t speak to that…

[tyleretters]

Yeah I was really happy to see the update go out this week. I had been hurting with it not connecting for a while now.

[kirklandish]

The new Made in Ableton Live series is quite good. Even if a featured artist’s music wasn’t something I would normally listen to, I still learned a few useful things about Live from them.

[healthylives]

Agreed. Also confirms that everyone uses Valhalla plugins on everything.

[jlmitch5]

Abletons stock reverb is probably its weakest point. They really should commission a design from Valhalla. I do like the feedback reverb on echo though, it’s pretty nice

[HappyHands]

I figured out a script that automaps the MFT to ableton plugins. Wow, so damn cool. So now when I open an EQ or auto filter, I dont have to touch a mouse to make changes. Exactly what I wanted.

I have a question that maybe anyone can answer who maps their 3rd party plugins to hardware in ableton,

What I’d love to do is load up a synth like DIVA for example. And then map about 8 parameters to my Midi fighter The question I have, what is the best way to save these mappings so every time I load the synth up, I can just touch the knobs and get to work?

[kirklandish]

@HappyHands

I figured out a script that automaps the MFT to ableton plugins. Wow, so damn cool.

Did you use the DJTT script or create your own?

[HappyHands]

I used a DJTT script. I’m not savvy enough to create my own…lol!

[Markus]

You can put the vst into the thing that has macros (don’t remember the correct nomenclature). Then the 8 mapped parameters are mapped to the macros and that whole “bundle” can be saved

[HappyHands]

Ok great, thats what I thought. That’s going to be awesome then. Thank you.

[janglesoul]

Yes, and everybody seems to choose the Valhalla VintageVerb on the 80s setting. I also found it interesting that so many are using the XLN RC-20 plug-in (retro color). I might have to take it for a trial run.

[eblomquist]

So this may be a little weird but…

I’ve had a private Google group for several years that grew out of my teaching Music Technology in the Marketplace at Berklee. It’s called the LiveHive.

It started as a way to share Ableton related stuff but very quickly morphed into just anything cool, interesting, creative about any kind of art… Feature creep…

Anyway, I’ve recently started an offshoot called LiveHive Summer Camp, which is very specifically Ableton focused and intended to be mostly an excuse for occasional Zoom hangouts to share ideas, explore tips, and just enjoy spending some time with nice folks with a common interest… Some of us are longtime Ableton users and some are very new to it… At this point most are personal friends I know irl, but not all. It’s spontaneous, not a regularly scheduled thing at this point, but I hope it could become more so…

I’m posting this here for two reasons. First to invite lines folks to join if interested. Drop me a message…

Second to float the idea of some kind of Lines version of a real-time video conferencing hangout(s), topically based or otherwise…

The technology is readily available, it could be nice…

Does that appeal?

Edit: I’m located near Boston so east coast time for my Zoom hangouts, usually evenings from about 7:30 to 9…

[mheton]

great idea. I still live working with ableton live, but I don‘t like to hang out anymore at the ableton forum. the lines community is more inspiring for my tastes.

[eblomquist]

Would you like me to add you to my google group?

If so I need your email address

Also I’m located near Boston so the time zones may not work well (edit: If you’re in Europe)

Nice to meet you!

Ed

[chapelierfou]

In France but would be happy to be part of it if I can manage !

[_mark]

I’m using slice to new midi track to split at transients, but then need to then export the slices from the resulting drumrack as individual .wav files.

Does anyone know a way of doing this easily?

I’ve got several hundred slices to export…

[tyleretters]

Yes. Unfortunately it is still going to take a bit of manual work, but this should be the least painful.

1. After you “slice to new midi track” you should get a midi clip with all your varying length midi notes. Keep that for later.
2. Expand the midi track to see all the nested tracks.
3. Create a new audio track for each of these nested tracks and set the “Audio From” to a corresponding midi track (see screenshot). Get a cup of tea and put on a nice song. If you focus you can probably do it in less than 10 minutes… depending on how many several hundreds of slices…
4. Now for some of the magic. In your midi clip from step one delete all the notes. Then add them back in but each starting at 1.1.1. This will save you from having to trim white space. Then select them all and pull their lengths to a bar or whatever.
5. Arm all the new audio tracks for recording.
6. Arm global recording and play the midi clip with all the notes. If you did everything right you’ll hear all hundred midi clips play at the same time, but they’ll all be recorded to their own channels.
7. Now you can export “All individual tracks”.

[rmro]

Is there not a method for this using Sampler? If you search it’s on the forums, the slices get saved with the Ableton project

[_mark]

@rmro I can see how you can slice with simpler, but can’t find reference of the samples being saved in the project - seems more it just references the original sample… unless I’m missing something out there.

@tyleretters thanks - that seems like a good solution. It also lets me use different slicing presets. Takes a while, but perhaps forces me to be selective in a good way!

For those interested - the only other option I’ve discovered is to slice to drumrack, then make a set of clips with only one note on each - ascending up the drum rack. If you freeze the track then all the clips are saved in the project as files. You could also paste them to audio tracks from the frozen midi track.