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By stormfield Thu Dec 25, 2025 11:15 am
ableton > akai users

Not sure anybody has experienced this yet:

I have tried opening an ableton project (mostly audio loops and long audio clips) in the MPC Live 3

After import, there seem to be weird audio artefacts when playing the clips in the MPC:

- Some basslines sound a bit mangled, sounding like an ableton audio clip would sound if it was warped with warp markers in the wrong place, transients in wrong parts of the clip

- kickdrum loops sound really thin like some hi pass filter is on

- some clips do not start on time, some clips start too soon, or a bit too late.
I tend to first render and crop clips to the exact starting point and tempo in ableton, so theyshould start exactly on time and should not need any adjustment afterwards

I used to open up ableton projects in the Akai Force with no issues (up to FW 3.5), so maybe the above could be a thing related to FW 3.6?

Running:
MacOS
Ableton Live 12
MPC Live 3, FW 3.6