I'm using a generic MIDI controller that only has two knobs and two faders, and I’d like to use it mainly to control gain and panning in Ableton Live.

The problem is that when I map one parameter and then try to map another, Ableton just adds the new mapping instead of replacing the previous one. This causes the control to affect multiple parameters at once, which I don’t want.

What I’m looking for is a way to make Ableton automatically remove the previous mapping when I assign the fader to a new track, so that each fader or knob only controls one parameter at a time.

I have a scene with an intro, a looped main section and an outro. Every clip in the scene is set up this way. I want to be able to loop the main section for as long as I want (for jamming purposes) then hit a button to trigger all clips to simultaneously unloop allowing them to enter the outro section. (I know I could create a new scene for the outro, I'm trying to avoid this to keep the number of scenes down)

I know I can midi map the loop button, but this just affects the currently selected clip. I can't find a way to loop/unloop multiple clips simultaneously. I'd even welcome a universal command to loop/unloop every single clip in the project!

Using Live 12 with Akai APC40 (original, not Mk2)

Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to map the LFO targets to macros inside an effect rack / instrument rack (if using the LFO midi tool)?

I made a cool "Drum Humanizer" but noticed some drum samples respond to it quite badly and a simpler way to mess with the values would be cool, other than just going to each LFO tool and messing with the targets there.

Hi all.

I’m a previous FL main but moved over to Ableton a few months ago. I still use FL but mainly Ableton now. Although I think the FL piano roll is still so much smoother for me when working with midi stuff. I was wondering about the FL rewire vst option and if using that is a good way to get access to the FL piano roll but work within Ableton.

Has anyone done this? If so how is the workflow?

Thanks!

My set up is MacBook M4 Pro. Novation Launchkey MK4 (controller) Focusrite 4i4 KRK Rockit 5s

My DrumBrute is connected to computer via USB hub (USB-B).

Can someone guide me through the set up?

Hello there! Ive been an ableton user since i start my hobby as a singer/song writer. I like recording my own songs and song covers.

I started with Live 8 that came with my focusrite, then I had a bootleg version of 11 suite.

Im really considering to purchase the Live 12 and Im torn if Im going for the standardor the suite.

I checked the difference of both, and it seems like the plug-in "Roar" is something that people really enjoyed on the suite. I am not a producer, I will mostly record myself and/or my band while playing. Is the "Amp" plug in conparable to 3rd party counterpart? Im the band's guitarist and would like to see the option of re-amping.

will I be missing a lot if I stick with live 12 standard? just wanna hear your thoughts.

I'm trying to use my maschine 2 & scaler 3 plugins within Ableton. If I have one of them open, they shut down when I click a sample within the Ableton browser. Tested it with a couple others, same result. VST3 plugins are directed toward the default folders within program files. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you

i am in a grunge cover band and we started using iems about 3 months ago and we wanted to start using click and cue tracks. i’ve heard that ableton live is the best for live performances. i dont need to do any production with it i just want to use it for live. i read that the 12 live intro only has 8 sessions available which from what i understand allows you to hit a button on the laptop and i am able to skip to the next song click track. i am 16 so i am willing to learn but right now i have no idea what i should do or if i should even get ableton.

I just want to change one part of the melody on the 3rd bar in session view but I have to listen to the first part before I can hear the changes I’ve made. Any workaround for this? Push 3.

I get an error during the Ableton Live 12 setup saying I need at least an Intel 5th gen Core or a Ryzen CPU. My processor is an i5-3317U (3rd gen). Is there any way to bypass this check and install it anyway? Maybe a workaround or modified installer? Any help is welcome!

So I finished a demo and I’m trying find a key I like. Is there something I can put on the master to play with different keys? I don’t want to change every clip I have individually

Will this make you start using?

So i have a bunch of old synths, drum machines, pedals, compressors etc and im always nudging stuff back onto grid after tracking it in... even with a MBPro m1, on 256, low latency enabled, and driver error compensation tweaked to so the "latency" is low.. but i still always have latency..

Can anyone explain best way to have something in my template/work flow to make this easier? I know there are ableton tools that help with external instruments etc but havent figured out how to get them to work. Thanks in advance?

The only DAW I've used that wasn't completely inconvenient in the context of timestretching was Reaper. But most of the time that I've used timestretching in Logic or FL in the past, there is always some annoying processing/buffering that takes place after committing the stretch. How is Ableton able to do this so seamlessly? Is it some proprietary "warp" algorithm that nobody else has? This is one of the main things that makes every other DAW seem so unappealing after using Ableton.

I’m looking for practical tutorials for beginning to use Ableton as an advanced Pro Tools user, and someone who makes R&B, Hip Hop, Lo-fi Jazz stuff. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated! I’d love to get stuck into a series of tutorials at the moment since I have some downtime! Thanks so much for your time!

Hi everyone. I have a problem. Basically, over the past few months I’ve been working on a song, and like most indecisive music producers on this planet, every time I made major changes to the song that I wasn’t fully convinced about at first, I would duplicate the project by doing a "Save As" and rename it to create a new version.

By the end of the process, I ended up with four copied versions of the original project, but I eventually finished the song using just one of them. Once I was sure about the project I was working on, I decided to delete the "older" projects, which I hadn’t been using anymore since I had moved forward with just one version.

Among the ones I deleted was the very first project folder—the one where the audio files had originally been recorded and created. Even though those files were still present in the later versions of the project, deleting that first folder has now caused the final project to open with missing media files...

Do you think there's any way to fix this? Why on earth didn’t Ableton duplicate the recorded and processed audio files into the new project folder when duplicating the project? I’m furious.

Is there a way that i can select every other clip kind of like in the picture?

I would love a case like this that can be folded back as a stand for the Move

Hi. So I am wanting to lay several tracks into ableton sometimes as a stereo option and Im trying to do this with Pigments. I have for example TRACK 1 and enabled the pigments VST3 track. Got it laid and saved. I then create a second track, TRACK 2, and want to lay a pigments track with the same sound but both of them are for a LEFT and RIGHT channel. When doing the 2nd track I just get a weird solid tone, it doesnt play back what I recorded. Whats going on? The only way I could get it to work half arse was to export the first track as a WAV file then lay it as an audio track rather than midi but it isnt the same. Ideas? Thanks!

I recently bought a synthesizer and don’t have a desktop setup yet. I'm currently using a MacBook Pro (2020) for production. I have a Scarlett 2i2 (1st gen), and I'm currently getting no audio signal from Ableton on line 1/2, but I am getting audio directly from the interface. I've read that this is probably because the USB hub is unpowered and my interface is older. Should I buy a USB-C interface, or should I just buy a new USB hub? Thanks for any help, as I'm new to production!

Hi, I'm trying to test Playbeat 3 -> XLN XO. It looks to me like XO is receiving Midi information as the meter is jumping up and down on the bottom left, but I can't hear anything. I know my audio is working because auditioning samples within XO makes a sound. I am new with Ableton. What am I missing?

Hi! The last step in building my live playback rig is controlling my offstage laptop (running ableset) from on stage (i play either keys, drums, bass, or guitar for artists). Is the best way to do this running a midi controller like a launchpad/spd/etc. or using an ipad over a wireless network for remote control over the laptop?

I think a midi controller would be nice in circumstances like using a spd while playing drums, but I’m having a hard time figuring out what cables to use to reach my laptop offstage. Would standard 5 pin din midi cables do the job? Or should I use something like rtp midi? I have a playaudio1u and a mioxm if that’s helpful. It seems like most of the complications come from long distances, so just want to make sure that whatever cables I choose will work over the distance from onstage to offstage. Thanks!

Hi, I'm new to music production. I took a music production course a while ago and have some basic knowledge. I'm a DJ and I really love electronic music. I currently have some KZ in-ear headphones and wanted to know if they're recommended for getting started in music production. I also have some home theater headphones and don't have a microphone, but I'd like to make melodic techno.