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Posted by Nightshift on Aug-17-2009 00:19:

Did you read the manual?

When in session view click and drag up on the top of the section of the db meters.

Posted by DJ Robby Rox on Aug-17-2009 00:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Nightshift
Did you read the manual?

When in session view click and drag up on the top of the section of the db meters.

No I thought people said it was easy =[

haha nah Im going through as I play with it now..

Posted by Nightshift on Aug-17-2009 00:29:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
No I thought people said it was easy =[

haha nah Im going through as I play with it now..

yeah i think that its cool they made the dB meters like that so if u dont wanna have them in focus you can minimize em or if you're tryna mix down you can maximize em

Posted by coroknight on Aug-17-2009 01:45:

it only takes a long time to start the first time you use the program

Posted by Nightshift on Aug-17-2009 02:01:

^^^ because it loads all the VSTs

Posted by coroknight on Aug-17-2009 02:38:

and it installs all the libraries

Posted by DJ Robby Rox on Aug-17-2009 04:17:

Ah ok makes sense.

I have to admit I went through the manual but it was going aggravatingly slow.
So then I found like an 11 part tutorial on youtube by sonic academy. WOW, really making some nice progress now.. pretty cool too so far.

Posted by DJ Robby Rox on Aug-17-2009 04:43:

Ok stupid question.
First I want to say I figured the fx out and maybe I'm crazy but the fx just sound so nicer then FLs. The chorus and reverbs sound much deeper and warmer imo, just not sure about the compressor yet.

Anyway, I'm confused. Making clips makes sense, but do you have to record all this into the main sequencer?

Im pretty sure Ill find it if you can do it but is there a way to place clips from session view to arrangment view? Because I need to get my clips into the sequencer, which I assume is called "arrangment view" in Live? But they're seperate windows so it doesnt look like you can drag anything..

Posted by DJ Robby Rox on Aug-17-2009 05:07:

Ahh! I figured it out.

You gotta drag those bastards all the way over to the arrangement icon then it switches view and allows you to drop it in the sequencer.

And I figured that shit out by accident. Now NOTHING can stop me!!!

Posted by coroknight on Aug-17-2009 05:32:

Here's a cool tidbit. Make your clips line up horizontally in the session view, press the record button near the play button at the top of the screen. Finally, hit the play button on the master channel next to your row of clips.

Posted by Blahzaay on Aug-17-2009 07:41:

Dude I was in the same boat using Cubase. I found that (for me anyway) it took far too long to do certain things. I used Reason for a couple of years when I first started producing, then Reason and Cubase in Re-wire for a few years after that. I ended up almost selling my entire setup as I completely lost motivation. I think the biggest reason for that was dreading having to open Cubase every day. I just find everything about it so boring and I never got anywhere with my tracks. I tried my hardest to organise everything and keep it neat, but the further i went in to a track the more I got lost in the web of mess.

In the end I took some time off making ANY music whatsoever. When I got back in to it, I ended up ditching Cubase and starting fresh with a new copy of Ableton and have never looked back. It might have taken me a few weeks to learn it inside out, but I had a friend to teach me the basics so I guess I was lucky.

Now I thoroughly enjoy making music again and can't to get home every day and have a bash on my Virus TI. Speaking of which the Virus has not once ever crashed on me using Ableton where it used to crash once a week using Cubase!!

I say fight your way through the learning stage and you will be loving it in no time!!

Posted by G-Con on Aug-17-2009 08:45:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox You gotta drag those bastards all the way over to the arrangement icon then it switches view and allows you to drop it in the sequencer.

Or, even easier, pressing the tab key switches between arrangement and session view. So if you click on a clip or group of clips and while holding the mouse down, press the tab key, you can drop them into arrangement view...

Posted by Fledz on Aug-17-2009 09:26:

A handy tip about a problem that many people new to Abes run into:

If you load a midi clip from someone/somewhere else and your patch keeps changing every time you restart the track, double click the clip and make sure the bank, patch and the third drop down are all set to none.

Posted by Blahzaay on Aug-17-2009 13:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
A handy tip about a problem that many people new to Abes run into:

If you load a midi clip from someone/somewhere else and your patch keeps changing every time you restart the track, double click the clip and make sure the bank, patch and the third drop down are all set to none.

Yes!!! This has happened in every DAW I have ever used! Legend...

Posted by Subtle on Aug-17-2009 14:31:

Now, if only it was possible to cut out a clap from a loop in the session view with a less than 5 second operation.

Posted by kitphillips on Aug-17-2009 16:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Subtle
Now, if only it was possible to cut out a clap from a loop in the session view with a less than 5 second operation.

It is. Set the loop braces around the clap and then hit crop. Voila.

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