rolling imm ableton live tips tricks sturm drang and beat repeat saturator thread

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It's got CPU issues making it unusable compared to 9 on my aging system (stolen, but I doubt they inserted cpu-related problems as an anti-piracy measure)

https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=229163

I get crackling with basically nothing playing (e.g. 4/4 kick samples), and they don't go away until buffer size is bumped up high enough that you can't even really use the thing.

no really, what's the best controller if what I basically want is the interface from the Yamaha RS-7000

I'm lazy and shitty at searching

I don't really know because I'm an inveterate mouse user, but maybe one of those Arturia Beatsteps?

http://https%3A//medias.arturia.net/images/products/beatstep-pro-black/beatstep-pro-black-image.png

I think I prefer the look of this

http://www.korg.com/us/products/computergear/nanokey_studio/

I'm planning to upgrade from my cheap laptop to a proper desktop PC to make Ableton a bit easier to use but there seems to be a load of people online saying that their 8/16GB, 3.8ghz, hexacore, I7, etc, machines still struggle massively with polyphony in Operator. How much of an issue is CPU load with a relatively decent PC spec now?

nothing helpful to add but that is discouraging

back to fruity loops

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209073129-Enabling-Audio-over-USB-in-iOS-devices

old news but news to me! experiments begin tomorrow

so for the track I hope to make for the ILX quarantine comp I'm running Live 10 Suite on my dinky MacBook Air I bought for school just about two years ago and with only 4 MIDI channels + barely any FX it's already pushing 25% CPU load. This is going to get sporty I think

Freeze tracks whenever possible

What are you using the midi channels for? what vst do you have loaded, or...

are you working completely in the box? or do you have gear attached?

Completely in the box

I’m using the same Mac mini that I’ve been using since 2009 running logic pro seven. I did get a new midi controller though.

for as long as I’ve been doing this I’ve become pretty decent at mixing inside the box except when it comes to vocals. I think because I just barely ever do it but I’ve never really mastered it or even come close.

How many goddam tracks does anyone need anyway?
(caveat I have no idea what Tombot's music is like, maybe you need 10 tracks just for the drums)

choose vst's or patches carefully (some of those wavetable patches are heavy on my cpu) , draw automation instead of twiddling the knob (or at least redraw the curves to mirror the twiddling to get rid of a lot of whatever those little points on the curve are called), freeze as Dan said.

or just "Free-form plague poetry over a VCS3 freakout" as per suggestion in ilm thread.

Live 11 is coming in Q1 2021.

The additions look useful but not enormously transformative. Better CPU performance would be good though.

Comping is very welcome, have been waiting for that for years. Spectral fx looks fun but nothing I haven't got elsewhere. Probability means I will probably never use Renoise again as thats pretty much the main reason I occasionally use it. The macro stuff looks awesome, especially no longer having to piss around with ClyphX scripts and commands.

All in all, looking forward to complaining for a few months then not being able to resist dropping £150 on an upgrade of Suite (again)

I’d love lower latency from the software instruments.