Ableton Lite Manual
Julia Kozub
A new Create Crossfades On Clip Edges command creates four-millisecond crossfades on clip edges. The command is available in the Create menu, and the context menu of Arrangement clips, or via the CTRLALTF(Win) / CMDALTF(Mac) keyboard shortcut.
When using the Zoom to Time Selection command in the Arrangement, Live now only zooms horizontally at first. When using the command a second time (without changing the time selection), Live then zooms vertically as well. Upon using the command a third time, the Arrangement returns to the first vertical zoom state.
You can use the left arrow key to navigate from an automation lane or take lane to the main track, this will fold the lanes as well. You can also use the left arrow key to navigate from tracks in a group to the main Group Track.
When only one note is played in the first captured MIDI clip (in an empty set with the transport stopped), the loop boundaries are set to the note start and end, and the tempo is accordingly calculated, resulting in a one, two, four, or eight bar loop. This is particularly useful when playing a rhythmical sample with a single MIDI note.
You can record multiple takes of a musical performance without stopping recording. Live will then create and organize individual takes from this recorded material, allowing you to piece your favorite parts together.
The Cytomic Filters, which are used in the Wavetable, Echo, Simpler, Sampler, Operator, and Auto Filter devices, have been updated and improved in stability, sound and performance. As of 11.1, the Cytomic filters (particularly the MS2 and SMP options) might deviate in sound compared to previous Live versions, especially when driven hard.
Follow Actions can now be assigned to scenes via the new Scene View. Clip Follow Actions will continue to run when a scene Follow Action is created or scheduled, however scene Follow Actions take precedence when triggered.
Added a Reduced Automatic Colors toggle to the Look/Feel Preferences, which uses a reduced color palette when assigning colors to clips and tracks. This palette makes clips and tracks easier to tell apart with a deuteranopia, protanopia or tritanopia color vision deficiency.
Added an Arm Track command to the Edit menu. If multiple tracks are selected, the command appears as Arm Tracks. If the selected track is armed, the command is replaced with Disarm Track. It is now possible to arm selected tracks using the C shortcut key.
You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate radio buttons anywhere in Live. If you are navigating radio buttons on a device that is inside of a Rack with the left and right arrow keys, you can get back to moving between devices in the Rack using the left and right arrow keys by hitting the ESC key.
In Session and Arrangement View, the Monitor radio buttons now have a default state that can be restored. When the In/Out section is expanded, you can press the Delete key to reset the Monitor radio buttons to the default (Off for audio tracks and Auto for MIDI tracks). This option is also accessible via the Edit menu option Return to Default.
Added a new MIDI Envelope Auto-Reset entry to the Options menu. When enabled, certain MIDI control message types that are not automated for a given clip will automatically reset at the start of a new clip.
Added support for keyboard shortcuts on French keyboard layouts for macOS versions 10.14 and older. Keyboard shortcuts that have numbers can be accessed without having to press Shift to access the number keys.
Improved drag and drop behavior within list views (such as the Groove Pool and device chains). Instead of always being inserted before the target item, dropped items will now be placed dynamically, depending on which half of the target item the cursor hovers over. In addition, the copy modifier ALT now works more consistently.
Any tracks in the Arrangement View can now be linked so that their content can be edited simultaneously. There can be multiple instances of linked tracks in a Set, however each track can only belong to one of these instances.
All Max for Live devices have been moved inside the application bundle (previously, they lived in the Core Library), to ensure that using Collect All and Save will not create redundant copies of the devices.
Audio driver input and output latencies are now taken into account for Max for Live devices that contain audio routings to external targets. If needed, users can revert to the previous behavior by using the -DisableM4LRoutingCompensation debug option in an Options.txt file.
The Randomize button allows randomizing velocity/probability values for selected notes (or notes with selected markers), depending on the focused lane. If no markers are selected, values for all notes will be randomized.
The Velocity and Chance Editor lanes can be shown or hidden via the lane selector toggle buttons at the left. Underneath the lane selector toggle buttons, a triangular toggle button allows showing/hiding all enabled lanes at once.
When a Rack contains a parameter mapped to one of the new Macro Controls (e.g., Macro 9-16), the additional Macro Control parameters will appear in a new device within the Rack. Degree symbol icons (Push 1) or bullet point icons (Push 2) are used to differentiate the Rack from the device.
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MacOS X 10.15.7, VEP 7. Following the notes in the documentation regarding routing in Ableton Live, I start the VEP server, instantiate VEP in an Ableton MIDI track, and everything connects OK. External MIDI goes to that MIDI track via IAC 1, and I can see the MIDI activity on the correct channels in the track's MIDI From. When I arm that track, VEP plays with everything routed to channel 1 as Ableton is known to do. Per the VEP manual, I then create an external instrument in Ableton, and under its "MIDI From," I put the VEP track, and then under its "MIDI To" I put the VEP track, then the VEP track channel I want to output to. I arm the external instrument track and disarm the VEP track, but no MIDI gets directed into the instance of VEP. I see the MIDI activity in the VEP track, but no activity in VEP's window (no piano keys get pressed). If I press the keys manually, VEP plays through Ableton as I've set up, so the audio routing is correct, just this MIDI issue.
In VEP's Master Bus, the MIDI input is set to the default first choice, which is "VE Pro Plugin MIDI In 1." I've attached a screenshot that shows one of the external instruments' MIDI settings (I've actually got two instruments going in VEP). I can't get a screenshot that shows the dropdown to show the ongoing MIDI channel activity, but those lights are blinking as they should for channels 1 and 2. Any clues as to how to trace down where Ableton is sending MIDI to?
If you're looking to route various channels from that IAC Bus into VEP, I'd suggest you assign the "MIDI From" in all the External Instrument tracks directly to the IAC Bus, then simply select the IAC Bus channel you want each External Instrument track to handle. You'd also need to assign only one channel of the IAC Bus feed into the VEP track otherwise you'll get duplicated MIDI hitting instruments in VEP.
I'm trying to get MIDI from my external sequencer into VEP via Ableton, not receive from VEP/Post FX. I should have made that clearer because I can't grasp how what you're advising me to do addresses my problem, either due to my miscommunicating my problem, or just not understanding well enough what you're saying.
My external sequencer sends to Ableton on all the 16 channels of IAC bus #15, but Ableton doesn't pass on the channel information to the plugins in its MIDI tracks. Instead, Ableton merges all MIDI info it receives into channel 1. But I want to have different instruments in VEP on different channels so that I can sequence them separately via the 16 channels of IAC Bus #15.
That part of the manual named "Important Notes for Ableton Live Users" describes a workaround for getting channel information delivered externally to Ableton passed on to VEP (instead of merging everything to channel 1), but perhaps that's also something I'm misunderstanding.
Ok then my guess was correct, it's just a straightforward thing you want to do. The problem you're having is due to your track input routing assignments in the External Instrument tracks in Ableton, as shown in your screen shot. If you follow my suggestions above it should all work as you intended.
The VEPro manual is perfectly correct in what it shows of the method of using External Instruments for routing MIDI channels into, and audio channels out from, VEPro in Ableton. Strictly speaking it's not a "workaround"; the same method is shown in Ableton's user manual for routing to and from any multitimbral instrument plugin (such as Kontakt) in Ableton.
Of course the VEPro manual doesn't specify what your MIDI input assignments should be for the external Instrument tracks in Ableton, because that's entirely up to the user and is outside the scope of the VEPro manual. Likewise, I believe it's fair to say that the general topic of Ableton's track input routing is outside the scope of this forum.
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