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I'm having this issue where I record a song and in the headphones it sounds great, but when I export it, it's like the vocals gain is cut in half. I've taken everything off the master, added limiters, and taken everything off of my vocal bus. Has anyone ran into this issue before? I've looked on other forums but couldn't find an answer

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I know this was posted here years ago but I couldn't find the answer that I'm looking for. So if I go under

~/Library/Application Support/Ableton/Live Database on Mac, there are couple of files that are taking a fair amount of space..

My question is - would it be fine if I just delete everything that was not modified yesterday? Like the ones from 2022 and 2023?

Thanks in advance!! Happy Abletoning people!

I currently am using a MacBook Pro with Ableton Live 10 Suite and a UA Apollo Twin Duo interface, and recently purchased the new Mac Mini M4 and Ableton Live 12 in hopes to make that my new dedicated workstation. Does anyone have any information or can point me in the direction on how I can transfer my current Live 10 Suite configuration, including my Apollo/ and its plug-ins over to the Mac Mini using a LaCie external HDD? Ideally, I’d like to run everything off the external HDD to maximize the memory of the Mac Mini. I feel like Ableton 12 will most likely have to be installed directly to the HD of the Mac Mini, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Also, I’ve had little success with YouTube and Google searches since the Mini is so new there’s not much online to go off of, so seeing if anyone in this community may have some pointers. Peace!

Looking for help if possible. My setup is pretty simple.

• Windows 11 laptop (ryzen 6900HX)
• AKAI APC Key 25
• Old Novation ReMote Compact SL
• M-Audio M-Track solo interface

Any time I have the AKAI and m-track connected at the same time there are major issues, but only if using the m-track as an output (ASIO driver)

After 5-10 seconds the AKAI will just not work. No MIDI input registered in ableton at all. My novation will still work for midi input. If I unplug the AKAI and plug it back in, windows re-recognizes it and MIDI will work briefly but one of two things will happen:

1. If you do not play any keys on the AKAI it will freeze again
2. If you play on the AKAI, it will play, but when it freezes, it freezes the ASIO output and you get a ''hung' note and ableton freezes as well. You can kill ableton, but it still has a 'stuck' windows process you cannot kill from task manager or command line, forcing a reboot.

If I use midi input from the novation, there is no problem. If I use the built in computer keyboard to notes (which does show midi CC activity in ableton) ist also works fine with the m-audio.

I have no other audio interfaces right now, which leaves me stuck using DirectX drivers on realtek and having terrible latency.

Any ideas are welcome.

Hi

My waveforms when I record my keyboard at full volume are around the -24db causing my waveforms to be tiny. On the other hand my guitar is sitting at 0db meaning I get large waveforms. The thing is they sound the same volume.

I’ve been recommended gain staging but this sound alike the OPPOSITE of what I want (at least from all videos I’ve watched on it).

All videos I’ve seen on gain staging seem to aim to get the audio to sound louder without actually raising the RMS which isn’t what I want. I want the RMS to be higher without adding any volume to my signal.

The part I can’t get my head around is how my guitar and keyboard sound the same (in fact keys is a lot louder and I usually have to turn it down) but the waveforms say otherwise… I thought waveforms were a visual representation of sound?

Any help would be great.

Another limitation I found in addition to no metronome level control on Ableton Move, is the inability to mix or pan sounds at all. Does anyone know a workaround to this at all?

This is kind of a continuation of my previous post, but TLDR I was convinced to switch lol. I have been using Ableton lite for a tiny bit and been loving it so far!

However, I have another dilemma now. I was able to borrow a push 1 from a friend, and I feel the workflow and process of making music is really great and solid so far. Now that I am thinking of getting one myself, I wonder if it is worth saving money for a push 2, or just buy the push 1 for cheap. There are some local listing in my area for a push 1 for 100 to 200, while there are none for push 2, meaning I would have to pay shipping and taxes for it (about 400 after shipping and taxes, the sales tax in my area is 10 percent :( ). What I think I am asking overall is do I get 200 dollars worth of features if I do decide to just go all in and get a push 2? I know the screen is a huge factor in this equation, but is it worth the extra dollars for it? Is there anything besides the screen and better pads that would factor into my decision? Any input would be appreciated :).

Hi all! Just curious if anyone has both of these to give me a comparison of their usefulness/workflow? I am looking for a portable solution to compose music. Any thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated!!! (I posted in the Polyend subreddit to get some thoughts and figured I'd get some alternative perspectives here). Thanks in advance!

I have Ableton Live 10 Lite(10.1.43) on a Macbook Pro M2, running Sonoma 14.4.1, and a 3rd gen Scarlett 2i2. When recording in Ableton, 2 things happen:

1. Audio cuts out almost immediately, picks back up periodically but cuts out again immediately. No continuous recording of sound, only intermittent bursts.
2. There appears to be no way for me to control which input on the 2i2 is being used. No matter which 2i2 input I'm physically connected to(with a guitar), and which channel I'm specifying in the "Audio From" section of the track, audio is still recorded (with the issue from point #1).

What I've tried, with no change in results:

• All combination of Sample Rate + Buffer Size settings in Ableton
• Different USB cables
• Different instrument cables
• Different Scarlett 2i2 (I bought a second thinking the first must be faulty)

What DOES work - recording in Audacity, via the 2i2. This worked perfectly on the very first try. It must be an Ableton-specific problem, yes?

To illustrate the issue, I set both Ableton and Audacity to record at the same time, strummed a few chords, and took a screenshot of the difference in waveforms between the two applications. This was the exact same recording, just two different DAWs.

https://preview.redd.it/rsgkuy3chp4e1.png?width=1726&format=png&auto=webp&s=bca74b2fa294a0f03d396b18b159cfc97349b181

Any ideas what I need to do to correct? Do I need to reinstall Ableton, and if so - is there a best practice on how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

For reference, here are the audio settings from both DAWs:

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I have some pinky vinyl laying around but I don't want to waste my time trying to get it set up if it's not going to work. Wondering if serato is the only option at this point

I upgraded from Live 10 to 11. This time though, I installed 11 on a LaCie 1T SSD. When I tried using a Max for Live instrument, I get " The selected Max application could not be loaded." After that, I got to preferences to try to configure the Max path, but no luck. I try look for the Max for Live on my Mac, and I cannot find it anywhere. At this point I don't know for certain if M4L is installed, Am I missing something?Any help would be highly appreciated.

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So, I've had my eye on the Push 3 since it was announced, though I only started with music production with Ableton a little over two years ago. I finally got the controller version of Push 3 when it finally went on sale, just received it yesterday, and I'm having a blast. I have fairly basic equipment otherwise, so Push 3 is a big upgrade for me, allowing intuitive access to MPE among all the things Push gives good, more immediate control over in Live.

The late producer SOPHIE talked about liking Ableton Live and Push 2 because it allowed her to work intuitively, and being AuDHD, I get the appeal. I can tell I'm more willing to experiment with melodies and device parameters, and I'm way less in my own head and more in the music as an embodied thing. But the main thing about the Push 3 is that it taught me what, exactly, it is I like about Ableton Live. I think Ableton is really good at giving its users all the "affordances" or capabilities that it can and letting you experiment in that intuitive way SOPHIE described. Of course, the Push is a super natural extension of this ethos, and the immediacy it gives me as a controller is just far and away above anything else I've played with. Ableton doesn't have the greatest or most notable presets, and there's very little you can just slap on a track to make it sound good (OTT notwitshtanding). But the presets are kind of beside the point; the point is that the tools are there to play with in sometimes fun and unexpected ways. Getting away from the mouse and keyboard helped me to see that. Thanks Ableton! I think the Push is helping learn how to use this software more capably and understand why it's good at what it does.

Hey! I'll try to be as concise as possible while giving all the information that I have.

I am trying to set up live looping with my band using Ableton Live for my guitar. I've got an amp processor (stereo with 2 different amps), the Helix LT. I'm using my stereo FX loop to run through my sound card (Send 1/2 to Input 1/2 and Return 1/2 to Output 3/4 - I'm using the 1/2 output of my sound card for my speakers).

I've got it setup like this on Ableton with one FX Loop track so I can keep switching presets on my guitar amp while my loop is being played:

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I have some MIDI commands to start recording and play etc. which works fine too.

Here's what happens when I loop though:

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But when I'm playing while the looper is recording, I'm in stereo and then as soon as the loop starts playing - it turns in mono. I am recording the XLR outputs of my helix to recreate what a sound engineer would be getting from me in a live setting.

Not sure where I'm doing something wrong but it's driving me insane. I'm using an Audient ID44 as my soundcard and here's a screenshot of the panel of my 3-4 Outputs when I'm recording my loop:

You can clearly see that both my FX loop inputs and the XLR inputs are stereo

And here's whenever the looper is playing:

The DAW 3-4 which is basically the 3/4 external output on my Ableton session is in stereo, but my HELIX XLR isn't...

Please send help

EDIT:
Here's my Helix Chain for those wondering. Everything past the stereo split is in stereo. I have tripled checked this multiple times and it wouldn't explain why I can play in stereo perfectly fine but whenever I'm using the looper it's randomly in mono.

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I want to recreate the ASR-10 sampling workflow in Ableton. Specifically, I want to set the sample’s start point but have it play continuously to the end when I press and hold a key, without it cutting off based on predefined slice end points. In Ableton, the slicing mode tends to cut samples at fixed endpoints(the next chop's start point). How can I replicate the ASR-10 behavior, where only the start point is defined, and playback continues to the sample’s end?

Ideally you should have an ableton live lite to do this (should be included with your arturia/novation/etc. hardware). Here's to confirm my license key's been upgraded after.

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BestService.com is running a sale right now which ends up being cheaper than Thomann (It has some good plugins of your choice which are free for every 100usd+. Also you'll earn some bestcoins that you can apply to another cart afterwards so it's important you do the two purchases separately)

1. Checkout Live 12 Suite Upgrade from Standard (Choose a plugin) = Earns you 7 bestcoins
2. Checkout Live 12 Standard Upgrade Ableton Live Lite(Choose a plugin). I applied bestcoin from previous so it's less usd7.77)

Remember to checkout separately so you can nag 2 plugins(If you don't have mixbox yet, i'd recommend that one). In total, it's a few dollars cheaper(5-7) if you apply the bestcoin discount so checkout the more expensive item first.

Is there someplace or somebody who has made midi racks that they can share for the GGD drum packs? Yes I know. I should just learn how to do it.

Hello everybody. I encounter a problem with ableton that did not exist two hours ago. No sound comes out of ableton. Why sound card (Scarlett 4i4) gets it as the led lights up, but no sound comes out of ableton. My settings on the right are good, it doesn’t work on the project I just created but doesn’t either on the elder ones that worked perfectly well just before. I tried to make the sound come out of my computer speaker, does not work, I shut down my computer, reinstalled ableton, doesn’t work, I don’t know what to do helppop please 🙏

So as the title says, but the caveat being. I already have a launchpad pro mk3 and a ROLI (mpe keyboard).

But I've been considering consolidating into one system that does it all (Used to have an SSL UF1 but found it took up too much space with my Maschine Mk3, Launchpad and keys)

I've essentially sold a bunch of gear (Digitone / Syntakt / UF1), still keep the peak to manage my other synths but as I'm fully enmeshed into the ableton system I was wondering how worth while it would be to pick this up (again, considering selling the roli to make way for a Novation Sumit)

I was screen recording Ableton with OBS on my Mac just fine the other day. Unfortunately, after updating to Sequoia, the OS failed a few days later for some reason. I managed to get limited access to some of my files and was able to get some of my music projects and recordings off of the computer to my external SSD, but it wouldn't let me back up the whole drive due to this stupid partition thing, and I didn't have access to enough stuff to be able to clear enough space to do a clean install of Sequoia, so...unfortunately I had to wipe the whole drive clean.

So I spent my whole night reinstalling programs, plugins, samples, etc....only the best of what I had instead of everything. But the real inconvenience is that I wanted to be filming an Ableton Live 12 Course this morning using OBS and for some reason window capturing Ableton is not working. I am probably missing something basic because I've been up most of the night trying to fix everything on my Mac, but can anyone help me out here? Face Cam works, Ableton window capture does not. I need to film a course, not live streaming for this, so I optimized OBS for recording when I set it up, if that matters.

EDIT: I fixed it. I just started clicking through various options for window capture until it told me it needs permission to capture audio and video from my screen. I had already enabled this but I guess it got disabled again somehow. Then the Ableton window capture display was so big I was endlessly dragging trying to fix it so I could actually see it, so I did control click on it in the sources of my scene, went to transform, selected fit to screen, and now I can see it and adjust as needed via click and drag. Hope this helps someone out (even if it's just me in the future).

So I moved countries and haven't got all of my gear sent over yet, but I've kept myself busy just plugging my headphones directly into my laptop and mixing some projects I recorded before I moved.

I was having some trouble getting a low latency without dropouts just using the windows audio drivers, so I tried out flexasio and it has been great for mixing where I don't need super low latency but low enough that it isn't annoying.

However the new problem has come with trying to incorporate a midi keyboard into the mix to write some music. I got a pretty nasty amount of latency that makes playing difficult. Ableton shows 23ms. So I went into FlexASIO GUI and adjusted the buffer and flicked on exclusive mode.

Now Ableton is showing 3ms latency, but the audible latency has not changed at all and still sounds like 20+ms.

Pretty confused about this. My only though is that since the audio is still getting routed through my laptop's audio card, I'm still copping the default windows 20ms latency.

Anyone else had this issue? It doesn't appear to be a MIDI latency issue as the indicator light in ableton flashes immediately upon playing a note, but the sound is delayed somewhere.

I need a new DAW, as I am upgrading my laptop and my old version of Ableton Live 11 Suite was installed directly in it (I had it for free in other words, but only for that laptop). I want to buy Ableton Live (as it is the software I’ve always used and I don’t really know how to use any other), but I don’t know if I should go for the Standard or the Suite version. From my understanding, only difference is that Suite includes “Max for live”, is that really worth $300+? Or should I ditch Ableton altogether and go to something else? I do very basic production myself (someone else produces my music), and sometimes use it live to playback tracks, but I am not a producer, I am a singer songwriter. Thanks for the input!

I found how to do it in Ableton here : It’s called ‘comping’

https://youtu.be/uSzDKw-GFIU?si=CPKNWPn5UQgPqcFD

I just realized it’s probably short for compositing. :)

Hi everyone,

I’m using a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedal to control various elements in Ableton Live during live performances. Primarily, I use it to:

• Toggle certain VST effects (on/off) across different return tracks.
• Control the looper.
• Control specific effect parameters via the expression pedals.

What I’m looking for is a way (even with a custom script, if necessary) to create a visualization panel or some kind of window within Ableton Live that provides an overview of:

• The current on/off state of the switches.
• The parameter values assigned to the switches or expression pedals.

Does anyone know if this is possible, either natively or through third-party tools/scripts? Any suggestions or starting points would be super helpful!

I use Ableton and like doing remixes, but what is a sure fire way to clean up vocals, from another track.

Is it possible to set the tempo in an ableton project with three digits after the decimal point? This would allow me to recreate a very special technique that is only possible in Cubase. Ableton just suits me better