In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering. It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching, crossfading, and other different effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beatmatch songs.[3]
Live was created by Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke and Bernd Roggendorf in the mid-1990s.[6] Henke left Ableton in 2016 to concentrate on his artistic project Monolake.[6] Behles and Henke met while studying programming at the Technical University of Berlin, and wrote software in the music programming language Max to perform techno as their band Monolake. Henke and Behles identified a need in Berlin's electronic music scene for user-friendly software for live performances, and worked with local acts to develop it.[6] Though Live was not developed in Max, Max was used to prototype most of its features.[7]
Unlike Pro Tools, which focuses on multitrack recording, the first version of Live was designed for performing live with loops.[7] It offered sophisticated tools for triggering loops, playing samples and time stretching audio, and was immediately popular with electronic music producers.[7] Live's time stretching algorithm, known as "Warping", was particularly notable and gave DJs greater control over mixing and beatmatching, smoothly blending tracks of different tempos.[7]
In 2010, Ableton introduced Max for Live, enabling connectivity between Max and Live.[7] Live made it easier for musicians to use computers as instruments in live performance without programming their own software, influencing the rise of global festival culture in the 2000s.[6]
Much of Live's interface comes from being designed for use in live performance, as well as for production.[30] There are few pop up messages or dialogs. Portions of the interface are hidden and shown based on arrows which may be clicked to show or hide a certain segment (e.g. to hide the instrument/effect list or to show or hide the help box).
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I mostly do drums in audio or recorded midi and have never really messed with the groove pool on midi tracks. been trying some of them out but im wondering, which ones do you all find useful? for house, garage, dnb, etc. I have live suite with all the included packs installed.
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Before setting up your Oxygen Pro with Ableton, let's take a moment to authorize your software.
1. Launch the Ableton application from your computer's Program or Application folder.
2. The software will automatically prompt you to license the program. Click Authorize with ableton.com to proceed.
Tonic plays the perfect ambient drone pad in the key of your choice at the touch of a button. The Tonic Pad Player includes controls for shaping the tone and character of the twelve selectable pad presets so you can glue together your live band and nail any transition between keys or songs.
Think of it like a magazine where you'd receive a new issue in the mail each month. If you chose to cancel that magazine delivery of course you'd get to keep all the issues you'd already received. That's true with Sunday Keys as well! You'll receive a new update to Sunday Keys each month, for as long as you keep your license active and that content will always be yours to access.
APC64 features 8 dedicated track select and control buttons with color feedback for fast workflow navigation in the studio or live. Instantly select tracks, solo, mutes to arming tracks for record, capturing your ideas. The control buttons also double up as track length divisions for even faster creative recording.
In addition to powerful clip launching, APC64 controls a wide range of Ableton Live features and functions to deliver streamlined and efficient creative workflow. Watch as Taetro navigates Ableton Live with dedicated controls and buttons on APC64.
Your TR-6S is now a dedicated MIDI controller! Dive in and map MIDI values in Live to the parameters on the TR-6S as you would with any other MIDI controller. Unsure about how to do this? Ched out this article from Albeton on MIDI mapping. help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000038859-Making-custom-MIDI-Mappings
Here is a Theme for Live11 which i once made, and which did not find its way in the official distribution. It comes with a screenshot showing the location in which it needs to be installed. On MacOS you'll need to right click on the app in Finder to get to 'Show Package Contents', and from there see screenshot: monolake-theme-live11.zip I recommend setting in the Prefs 'Grid Line Intensity' to a low value ( 20?).
This course provides hands-on experience in producing, mixing, and sound design with a digital audio workstation. Students will learn the fundamentals (physics) of sound and digital audio, proper gain staging, where and how distortion enters recordings and mixes, how to set levels and panning, effective sub group mixing, and an introduction to signal processing such as equalization, compression, delay, and reverb. In addition to core audio and mixing concepts, students will learn various production techniques, such as sequencing, arranging, automation, using virtual instruments (e.g. synths, samplers, and drum machine plugins), working with MIDI, plugin formats such as VST/Audio-Units, and mapping digital USB controllers for the studio and live performance.
However, there are two names in DAWs that come up time and time again when producers are looking for a platform to work with: REAPER and Ableton Live. These programs are packed with features perfect for live and electronic music production, but each stands out in different key feature areas.
In certain cases, incoming data may also come via callback. Examples of this can be found in the abletonSong1_callbacks DAT. Python callbacks are beyond the scope of this guide, but if you know a little Python, looking in this DAT will reveal the examples which set the locatorByCallback and sceneByCallback textTOPs.
Data to be sent out to Ableton is usually sent via parameters. If you go to the Ableton Song parameter page of abletonSong1 you will see the Play, Loop, and Tempo parameters which set the corresponding values in the Live Set. The abletonChain1 component shows examples of using CHOP exports to automatically change an outgoing parameter and thereby change a value in Live.
In the previous section, abletonSong1 shows data for the entire Live Set. Most TDAbleton Components are made for observing particular parts of a Set. For example, abletonParameter is used to get and set the value of a single Ableton Device Parameter. As you can see in the Component's parameters, this one is set to work with Track: 1 Muugy, Device: Pitch, and Parameter: Pitch. In Ableton Live, navigate to that device and you will see that its Pitch value is being mirrored in TouchDesigner.
TDAbleton uses menu parameters to navigate the Live Object Model. For example, all available Tracks, including Returns and the Master, will be shown in the Track parameter. Once you have selected a Track, its available Devices will be shown in the Device parameter, and so on down. To see other examples of this, take a look at the abletonTrack1 Component, which observes a single Track, and the abletonChainParameter1 Component, which gives access to Ableton Device Parameters within sub-chains such as those in an Instrument Rack.
Note: You can change the Pitch value in Ableton by changing the Value Send parameter on abletonParameter1, but notice that this stops Ableton's automation of that parameter. This is another reason why Auto Sync is not always desirable.
The abletonMIDI1 Component has a unique feature: a Max For Live device is necessary in order to get MIDI data out of Ableton Live. Each abletonMIDI component is connected to a specific TDA MIDI device in Live. If you look on the 1 Muggy Track in the Ableton Set, you will see the TDA MIDI device.
TDA MIDI devices in your Live set should be created from TouchDesigner by using the Add TDA MIDI Device pulse parameter on an abletonMIDI Component. Just select the Track to put it on and press that button.
The smoothest way to control and watch Live's parameter values from TouchDesigner is using the abletonRack component, and its corresponding Max devices in live. These racks can be created in Live using the pulse buttons on the abletonRack component. For an example, look at the device chain in the "2 Muggy" Track in the Demo Set.
The general strategy for using these racks is to put the Live device whose parameters you want to control and/or watch into the rack. Then map the appropriate rack macros to the parameters you want to interact with. This will create a fast connection between those parameters and the corresponding abletonRack device. For more information, see abletonRack.
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