Ableton Live question

how do you get the sounds to move in small increments.
idont get how to set it up correctly,

i'm in the mixer and i just want to make a simple beat drum and snare but i got the both of them bunched up how do i get the bass first then place the snare where i want it?
is there an ez'r way to do this with the midi keyboard?

How do you trigger samples in live5 with the mpc pads, so that the mpc is the master, and live is the slave. Trying to play live5 on my mpc pads?

sbtst6 wrote:How do you trigger samples in live5 with the mpc pads, so that the mpc is the master, and live is the slave. Trying to play live5 on my mpc pads?

ez way is use the ' impulse' instrument and set the channel record mode to on and monitor to on. then hit pads until you find which pad/bank triggers which impulse drum.

make sure you have your midi ports set up right in the ableton preferences also..

make sure you have your midi ports set up right in the ableton preferences also..

how would that b , i got some tips from a friend and i still cant get it .
how would you use a pcr 50 keybaod midi controller.

i turnt on the preference audio for my sound card and in the the midi i turnt on the pcr, but theres a pcr 1 and pcr2 then theres only for midi in on the other settins how whould it b.
will the keyboard b master or will the pc b master,
and where do i get sounds to be able to use the key board as an instrument.?

thanks

dj e.d.e wrote:

make sure you have your midi ports set up right in the ableton preferences also..

how would that b , i got some tips from a friend and i still cant get it .
how would you use a pcr 50 keybaod midi controller.

i turnt on the preference audio for my sound card and in the the midi i turnt on the pcr, but theres a pcr 1 and pcr2 then theres only for midi in on the other settins how whould it b.
will the keyboard b master or will the pc b master,
and where do i get sounds to be able to use the key board as an instrument.?

thanks

do you know how to get the program making some type of sound, any sound?
if so, the audio is fine for now...

if not lemme know.

next the midi, that sounds right, in the preferences just turn everything on that you can (green square should be on)

make sure yer in session view

now in live find or insert a "midi track"
from the left sidebar open ableton plugins and drag "impulse" into the midi track

see the impulse settings box appear, in upper right corner click the down-arrow and load a builtin kit for now, load 'studio montreal' or something

in the same midi track see the speaker/S/circle buttons stacked vertically? hit the circle one to make it turn red

now at this point just type some keys on your computer keyboard (the typing keyboard) and hopefully u hear drum beats

now play from your pcr keyboard, but important:: only one particular octave will trigger the drums so you have to find which octave of keys to play (a middle octave).

any luck?

later you can adjust where it says 'all ins' and 'all channels' to only use the specific ones u want.

ps. these instructions are for ableton v4.0.1 might be different for version5.

i'ma try this out thanks , prolly tomorrow cause i got to get a set togther for tonite

sparq wrote:wait... the one thing that i like about Live better than nuendo or pro tools is the ability to rewire reason directly into an audio track instead of messing around with routing aux tracks to an audio track (pro tools) or bouncing down the rewire channels to an audio file then importing the file into the DAW (nuendo) but other than that, my statement above still stands.

you mean you can't run reason alongside and rewired into nuendo? damn, just got nuendo and i haven't got round to that yet, shame it's not doable.

Mr modnaR wrote:

sparq wrote:wait... the one thing that i like about Live better than nuendo or pro tools is the ability to rewire reason directly into an audio track instead of messing around with routing aux tracks to an audio track (pro tools) or bouncing down the rewire channels to an audio file then importing the file into the DAW (nuendo) but other than that, my statement above still stands.

you mean you can't run reason alongside and rewired into nuendo? damn, just got nuendo and i haven't got round to that yet, shame it's not doable.

nooooo. you got me wrong. yes you can rewire reason into nuendo with no problem at all. i do it all the time.

what i meant was with nuendo, when you rewire, the tracks from reason is on rewire channels in nuendo. you have to bounce those tracks in nuendo down to audio then import it back into the session. (but it does it smoothly with no hassle) and with pro tools, you have to rewire reason into an aux track and then route that aux track to an audio track.

with live, you rewire directly to an audio track. it's more streamlined with live in opposed to nuendo and pro tools.

are you kidding us?
... ofcourse you can route every channel to different tracks in Nuendo
just hit "F8" (i think) to bring up the reason rewire dialog and click all channels so they become green! dude

but you can't bounce your track down with reason rewired in, you have to bounce the reason track down to audio first? that's crazy!

no just record it .. or not and render along with the rest of the session later on

sorry to mislead you drum track, i'm not talking about live, i know you can do that with live, i was talking about nuendo. sparq said that he bounces the tracks down to audio first, which i think is ridiculous given the price of nuendo, that you can't render to wav with reason running rewired. unless you can do it, i dunno, i have only briefly tried it, so i can't say for sure.

sorry to step in guys ,

but i got some other questions, how do you chop and midi file ?

or if i record a midi track to audio ,

how can i chop the audio track ?

and how do youbring up the sampler?
or get that thing where you are able to cut you sample up and use a piece as an instrument and spread it across the keys?

has any of you guys pick'd up that computer music mag special.
the essential guide to ableton live.? i have Al 4but it's not workin with mineit tells me thatthe version on the disc isto new. it there a newer version of AL4?

thanks

dj e.d.e wrote:sorry to step in guys ,

but i got some other questions, how do you chop and midi file ?

or if i record a midi track to audio ,

how can i chop the audio track ?

and how do youbring up the sampler?
or get that thing where you are able to cut you sample up and use a piece as an instrument and spread it across the keys?

has any of you guys pick'd up that computer music mag special.
the essential guide to ableton live.? i have Al 4but it's not workin with mineit tells me thatthe version on the disc isto new. it there a newer version of AL4?

thanks

The sampler is called 'simpler' and you get it from the "e icon" menu on the left hand side...

you must create a MIDI TRACK and drag the simpler into it.
It should respond chromatically to whatever midi you play/record into the track.

the simpler is f**n cool, very handy.

it is good for flipping around the 'start point' knob, looking for good places to use out of a longer sample.


Regarding chopping, i don't know if ableton does much 'chopping' without adding xtra vst instruments. but instead,
learn all about stretching and about 'clip envelopes' and you can do most chopping tricks that way.

Tell me more about what exactly u want to do with chopping, then i could tell u more.

well i was lookin to chop a sample then use the chromatic to spread across the keys and play it like i want, but you say use like truncate right and shyt like that to shorten my sounds ,

when you say" create a MIDI TRACK and drag the simpler into it"

do you mean open another mix bus?
cause i have like two audios and two midi tracks that look like buses in one view and and in the session view ir just tell you wat they are like audio and midi on top of the channel

thanks i appreciate the help sleepersriddle and every one .