#507

Check the last post in this thread, I use it and it works.

https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=205692

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#508

Just found another way here:
https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=115570

  • Slice to single sampler
  • Open up the Zone tab and select all Zones
  • Right Click -> Crop Sample
  • all Slices are chopped and put in your Project/Samples/Crop Folder
  • Batch Rename

Testingā€¦

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#509

Oh nice. Thatā€™s tricky.

#510

I love these kind of super utilitarian / pragmatic tricks. I found them over time to be much more regularly useful to my creative process than most of the other strategies and rules often deemed super useful.

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#511

I totally know what you mean. And in this case thereā€™s something more enabling about having a set of files in a folder than a session with a single file loaded into samplerā€¦ oddly. But I love that sound of different sized slices looping that you get in drumrack from this method - some interesting micro rhythms come from it. Going to load these in polybuffer~ and play with groove~ in max.

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#512

Yep thatā€™s the method

#513

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live-keyboard-shortcuts/

even if you think you know everything, itā€™s worth checking out the keyboard shortcuts list from time to time. i have just discovered that this program iā€™ve used for most of my music writing life has shift+space to resume playback from where it was stopped rather than where the playhead is set to.

nearly 10 years of accidentally starting playback from the wrong point because i never read the manual. a creeping sense of dread

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#514

Iā€™ve been using Ableton since at least 2005 if not longer and am embarrassed to say that I have never read the manualā€¦

Itā€™s time to crack it open starting at the beginning!

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#515

Thank you. I amā€¦ working on accepting myself for not knowing this until now.

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#516

one of my new fav ableton youtube channels. lots of cool tips/inspo in a no-nonsense format. his tracks are really nice too (i love mr bill videos but am not so much into that type of music)

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#517

Really glad you posted these!

The Kiasmos records are so great, definitely worth checking out for those who havenā€™t heard them.

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#518

i use geosonics for this idea

#519

whoa thatā€™s a cool looking plugin! might have to check that out

#520

couple ableton questions to see if anyone has figured out ways to fix these things (kind of opposite things)

  1. is there a way to stop the transport but record tails? (maybe this is only possible by having stuff set up in session and stopping the midi clips causing sound to be generated but keeping the global transport running)?
  2. is there a way to stop any delay or reverb tails ringing out after stopping the transport so you can restart immediately without having the tails interfere?
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#521

  1. I donā€™t believe thereā€™s a way to record without the transport running. Letting tails run out before hitting stop is the only solution Iā€™ve found ā€” would love for this to be a thing, though.

  2. Hitting stop twice should quiet all effect tails, and a quick stop-stop-play should get you the result youā€™re after.

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#522

Interesting, I feel like this used to work a long long time ago but it doesnā€™t for me nowā€¦I thought maybe I was imagining it ever did. Maybe itā€™s a setting

EDIT: yeah doesnā€™t work for meā€¦I canā€™t find a setting either.

#523

Often with stuff like this you have to toggle the channel/return on and off. Different VST seem to behave differently. If the channel doesnā€™t work you can toggle the device on and off with the button in the upper left hand corner.

Edit: I work with a lot of reverb and delays that can ring out for multiple minutesā€¦

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#524

ah toggling the device is a good idea. my way was to turn the feedback down, and then wait for it to stop then revert the envelope/valueā€¦last time i was mixing with echo i just had the thought ā€œthereā€™s gotta be a better way than this!ā€ hence my question here

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#525

If youā€™re feeling really frisky you can map the toggle button to a pad on your desk you can rage press.

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#527

Iā€™m working on creating a sample pack created entirely with eurorack and my 0-coast. This is mostly a tool for me to force myself to really learn each module with some depth. While this has been largely successful, Iā€™m struggling a bit with the workflow in ableton. While I get that Ableton is REALLY good for making tracks, I feel like itā€™s a bit clunky for just making samples to save for later.

Any tips for recording and actually making the samples in Ableton? I know my way around Ableton, but Iā€™ve never really tried to create a sample pack before and my workflow doesnā€™t seem the most convenient to creating a bunch of new audio clips. Iā€™m trying to avoid any significant audio processing, but I do want to have them trimmed correctly, and at similar volumes (canā€™t seem to figure out how to normalize to -1db directly). Any tips or things you like in sample packs you use would be greatly appreciated.

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