Comments on: Solo Singer/Songwriter Ableton Live Setup

By: Patrick Randall

Patrick Randall — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:51:18 +0000

When you are repeating a scene, do you have to hit the pedal in the last bar (or bars)?

Forgive the possibly silly question but I’m looking for a solution where I can decide at anytime in a scene that I want to repeat the current one, hit the button then and have Live play to the scene end then repeat from scene start?

By: k

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:52:36 +0000

I agree; Ableton Live is for the DJ world; They should get their shit together for the one-man band types. It’s not designed for “Live” music – it’s for spinning records (clips) and playing with effects.

By: xliontamer

xliontamer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:34:12 +0000

Yep – having a one man band is tricky. I had all my scenes for 6 songs mapped to a trigger finger going from c-2 to c4! That’s an awful lot of button presses to remember…especially in the heat of the moment.

But now – thanks to you lot – i have realised there are ‘scene up and down buttons’ assignable to midi.

You have made my day!!!

By: nosferato

nosferato — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:26:45 +0000

I’ve been looking for some programming tips for my controller when I came across this page. Thanks for the topic Brad, and reaaaally thanks to Sushalini for the solution.

By: bejomin

bejomin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:32:21 +0000

Thanks to your post I’ve managed to solve the same problem on my Mac – that of lack of scene progression. In this case, set up the sync track, enable the built-in IAC driver in the MIDI system setup and send the sync track to the driver on which Live listens for control commands.
Cheers for this article!

By: man

man — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:36:13 +0000

This band has a setup for live that allows them to change songs in a gig – see http://community.sonikmatter.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24481

“One Live Set is used on each machine for the whole gig. Our Sets are about 110 tracks wide and about 250 Scenes deep. There is a trick of combining lots of songs accross the Session View left to right top to bottom. You just keep adding new tracks and new scenes so all your songs end up “diagonally” accross the page.”

By: Graybob

Graybob — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:36:50 +0000

Great stuff, thanks! I’ve just traded in my gt-6 for NI Guitar RIG 2. It is amazing plus it has a sound card in it.

By: vega

vega — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:00:25 +0000

how do i assign mulitple functions ie: record & play to trigger @ the same time to 1 midi command in live 5? do i have to use the bome’s or is there a “stock” option within live?. i’m trying to build tracks with my turntables without touching the mouse . i have a bunch of midi controllers but it seems i can’t figure out how assign multipule triggers to 1 midi command.
thanks for you help

By: PeletonResist

PeletonResist — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:02:18 +0000

great tips people. helped me out a lot. one question though, can you assign one motion ie one press of a foot pedal and trigger more than one command on your program. for example i want to arm and record a loop whilst opening a an effects send.

Can this be done or am i bit over my head?

dave

By: pike

pike — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:00:13 +0000

Exactly, live *does* have scene up / scene down / play scene midi mappings. 3 pedals should get you jumping throughout one song at will.

What you’re still stuck with, or rather, what i’m still stuck with, is the inability to switch between songs, or live sets. Seems quite impossible without miditranslator on windows or controllermate on the mac.

- anyway – not such a boring read after all – thanks

*-pike