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).
Hello,
I have a Problem to select the Live version.
I run a Student Version of Ableton 10 and Ableton 11.
In both cases it's not possible to select a live Version.
Only something like Phython but it does not work.
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\ --> this Path is for Windows otherwise I can't find such a path shown in the other example. Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Ableton\
Is It the same path like it's for the live log.txt file?
Or is it because I have installed my Ableton not in C:\ HDD.
The reason can be one of these:
1. you set the live folder to a different location than Ableton's default.
2. Your operating system is not 'English' meaning your 'user' folder is named something else (i.e. if french 'utilisateur')
I do see ableton rewire as an option when creating both an aux bus and ext midi track. It's strange since Cubase and Pro Tools can both trigger Ableton to recognize that it should launch in Slave mode. Something tells me that Logic is not do something when I set the Rewire Behavior setting in the preferences. I've tried trashing Logic preferences and then resetting my preferences again but still no luck.
i was having the same issue, and it was just working yesterday on a trial version of live 9, so i had to figure what happened, well i found my version 7, then installed it, then with my maschine, came a version 8, i installed that, cause i wasn't buying 9 just yet, then i started getting these rewire errors.
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.
Live is essentially a hard disk-based audio player and recorder that takes advantage of today's fast processor speeds and disk access times, and combines them with some blistering time-stretch ('warping') algorithms to deliver what can only be described as an astonishingly fast, innovative and intuitive tool to compose, arrange and play music. It allows musicians to combine almost any audio, be it on their hard disk or recorded from scratch, with anything else, virtually 'on the fly'. You can audition material from hard disk alongside running program sequences, drop in live overdubs that can be triggered back off disk in an instance (remember 'Frippertronics'?), change tempo while all this is going on, and a lot more. All of this can be done mixing most common file formats, sample rates and bit depths for maximum flexibility and speed.
Live 4: This version of Ableton Live contained the biggest update until now. Live 4 introduced MIDI support, built-in software instruments such as Impulse, Simpler, and Operator, follow actions, and much more. Its interface started to take shape by combining live performance together with professional music production.
Most of the issue is being created by the need for collaborators to be able to add live parts to my through-composed score. Those people each have their own way of working and their own software, so I need to try to make this as friendly as possible.
Ableton Live is the most popular DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), according to a poll. Since its release in 2001, Berlin-based Ableton has regularly refreshed the DAW, culminating in the 2021 release of Ableton Live 11. Ableton Live stands out from other DAWs for a few reasons. It is widely used by musicians, producers and DJs because it has unique features to play live clips, is easy to use, and well equipped with advanced audio time and pitch algorithms. All DAWs can handle any audio sample nowadays, but Ableton is generally seen as the easiest to manipulate audio samples, as opposed to just MIDI information.
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Music Tech Showcase 2021: Across its 20 year history Ableton Live has reshaped electronic music, blurring the lines between recording and performance, tool and instrument. Here we take a look at 10 of the key developments that have shaped the go-to live DAW over its influential lifespan.
I ran into a problem today where ableton would just crash and said it was going to disable the vst. I deleted all my Rack plugins and reinstalled rack just to be sure. Restarted live, then it worked. I think I had a bad plugin left over from beta testing.
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?).
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