Ableton Live Lite 8 Fender Edition

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Toney Talbot

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:53:49 PM8/3/24

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as the title implies, is there any way to use ableton live's plugins in logic? I really like the ping pong delay in live seeing as logic doesn't seem to be able to do that (stereo delay seems close, but i suck at using it)

Unlike MIDI, you can send audio back from Live to Logic via rewire. You just need to start up Logic, then Live (so Live is running in rewire slave mode) and set the outs of the audio track in Live to a rewire audio pair, and in Logic create an aux track in the mixer and assign its inputs to that same rewire pair. Now the audio coming off that audio track in Live goes out the rewire pair, and arrives in Logic on the aux. You can then bus the aux to an audio track if you want to bounce down the audio (no need then to keep Live around)

The question remaining is how does the audio get into Live in the first place? Either you generate the audio in Live itself - ie via an audio clip playing in Live through the desired effects and then being rewired into Logic. Or the audio starts off in Logic and you use something like SoundFlower (free from Cycling74) to pipe the audio into Live where it can then be effected and sent back to Logic via rewire. I've not used SF this way, so I can't say from personal experience it works. But in theory it should, and others here have said it does.

what I want to do though, is just take the effect from the system folder and drop it into the logic folder... i guess that doesn't work? Like can i just find the ping pong delay in the root folder and then move it into the logic components folder?

Live effects are built into Live itself. They aren't available outside of Live. So you can't use them directly in Logic. Much the same as Logic's effects are built into Logic and can't be used in another (non-Apple) app like Live.

As far as the ping-pong question goes, I assumed you've played with all of Logic's delays - echo, stereo delay, tape, delay designer and not got what you're after? All of them are capable of something similar to Live's ping pong, though not with quite the same ease of UI (IMO).