I recently discovered Luma Audio plugin and it’s blowing my mind with the possibilities of sound design being endless. I know it’s not an effect plugin, but do you people have any recommendations of plugins that can make a simple sine wave or saw wave sound into something really complex in terms of sound design and texture? Drop your reccos.

I love messing with Ableton Note on my lunchbreaks, and although it's a little twitchy with the piano roll, I wish there was another app I could mess with that was a big more experimental. Note's pretty straightforward and I don't find myself getting really weird or unique sounds, but it's great to lay down some drums and distorted bass. Has anyone played with other apps, or little music machine hardware, that's fun and useful to incorporate into tracks later on? I wanna do the M8 but it's a little expensive and I don't even know if I'd like the workflow. I like being able to record some stuff and use it later for actual songs.

Hey guys!

I’ll start with the question: given my context, is the push 2 worth it? (Maybe push 3 if someone thinks it’s an absolute must in my context).

I’ve been making music for years now and have finally swung back to ableton after transferring to logic and pro tools for a while. My setup consists of a korg minilogue xd, digitakt, nord grand, and maybe a moog sub37 soon. I’ve been looking at getting a midi controller as I want to start building a live set for my tracks and the push 2 seemed like a logical option. But I was also looking at just gotting a novation launchkey…

I make electronic music (techno, dub, minimal, ambient), music for film/tv, and singersongwriter music. However, I’ll probably stick to logic for film/tv. I love sampling live instruments and records, and like to use as much hardware, and tactile instruments as possible.

So, given my context, is a push 2 worth it for a live setup and home studio? And, rather importantly, do people find they use it a few times and then put it on the shelf or is it known as a piece of gear that stays on the table?

As I said earlier, I could also stretch to a push 3 if it’s an instrument that would really fit my style.

Thanks!

I have been using the combination of Focusrite Scarlett Solo interface and the NI Massive X synth plugin on and off for about 10 months and Massive X has always been a resource intensive plugin and has caused some lagging if I'm really pushing it, but I never had crashing problems until very recently. If I have any tracks with Massive X and using the Focusrite interface, it will consistently crash within a few minutes of using this combination. If I take Massive away, the crashing stops. If I use Massive with a different interface (Arturia Minifuse), the crashing stops, so it seems like this combination is the problem.

I really want to get it to work with the Focusrite because it has mic and instrument channels that can be used at the same time but the Arturia can only use 1. I am on Windows 11 latest version and the drivers and updates are all up to date. It seems like Focusrite has had a lot of updates recently, but it's hard to say if any of these updates correlated with the crashing. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thank you for any ideas

I can't find this in the manual anywhere. The scenario is:

• You have a set which is at 120bpm, and includes a midi beat in a loop.
• You have a sample of audio recorded at an unknown tempo (assume acoustic guitar recorded freeform without a click track). You drag this into the set and uncheck warp so it remains at it's original tempo.
• You want to keep the sample at it's current (original) tempo, and adjust the set's (and midi beat's) tempo to match the sample.

The closest feature I can find to this is the "Lead" button (Tempo Leader/Follower), but this doesn't do exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks!

Hey folks,

I’m after a simple Max for Live device for Ableton Live 12 + Push 2. Basically, I want the clip pads on Push 2 to dim once a clip has been launched.

Right now every clip stays bright even after it stops playing, which makes it hard to tell what I’ve already launched during a set. The idea is just:
– Bright = currently playing
– Dim = played but now inactive

Would be amazing if it could work across all tracks and just run quietly in the background — doesn’t need a fancy interface. If there’s a way to adjust the dim level or remember the last couple of played clips per track, even better.

If you know of an existing device that already does this, I’d love to hear about it too.

Cheers!
Paul

Hey everyone!

I've been having random noise/distortion issues with Ableton Live 12.4.3 (and previous versions) when recording line in guitar. Actually don't even need to be recording to experience the noise. Not sure where to go from here to mitigate my frustration. Will put an example below but wanted to lay out the issue first.

MacBook Pro M1 Pro

Motu Ultralite mk5 (USB C direct to MacBook, no hub or USB splitter)

Audio from guitar coming in from Neural DSP Quad Cortex into Motu

Ableton Live 12.4.3

-Sample Rate: 48k (have also tried 44100)

-Buffer Size: 128 (have also tried 64 and up to 1024)

When I play guitar only through the Motu interface (Live 12 not running at all), there are no audio issues. They only occur when Live 12 is running, whether I'm recording a track or just playing. Sounds like a static type of sound.

Current project has three channels. Two for guitar, no plugins at all. Third channel is running a drum loop, no plugins.

Master channel is dry, no plugins. No sends/returns.

Example:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l44s3kka61uga4y21lljn/TheeSacredSouls_test1.mp3?rlkey=8brkgo0k3qfm39rbymiix5xjd&st=pcs3pyy1&dl=0

Noise can be heard around :40, :51 and 1:02.

Pay no mind to the missed notes when playing. Recorded for example of the issues.

Thank you in advance to anyone that has a moment to engage with this.

Since today ableton started freezing every few seconds. It's not a CPU spike, it's even in an empty track playing nothing. Restarted pc, it's a Nitro, brand-new, worked fine for months.

Using audio 4 all and scarlet I2u

Tips?

Hello,

the UI of almost all third party plugins, especially the Arturia ones, are blurry in Ableton. I am using an 1440p screen with 125% scaling configured in Windows. 100 % would be just too small.
In FL Studio the scaling with third party plugins are fine, no blurriness there.

How can I achieve the same in Ableton?
The option "Auto scale plugin window" is already activated. Without that options, Arturia Plugins would be unusable.

Thanks.

I found a post on the sub from 5y ago where it was mentioned that there was no solution to the automatic bounce location, and I couldn’t find any discussion about it anywhere else - apologies if this has an easy fix I missed.

I am coming over from Pro Tools, where when bouncing a project, PT automatically creates a “Bounces” folder and suggests that location for the bounce (if such option is selected in the bounce dialog). In Ableton, every time I bounce the project, I am automatically greeted with the last location I bounced a different project, which forces me to have to look for that specific Project folder. Not only that but I like to create a “Bounces” folder to keep audio and als files separated.

Does anyone have a better way of going about this ?
Thank you

anyone know how to make the bass movement feel and like just this kind of percussion in general from the start to 0:28? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2N22oqrLM im trying to recreate the entire intro to understand it

My main goal is to try and understand how to make the 3 clicks that sound underwater I love the dark feeling sub urbans beats give off and want to learn a lot more sound design in order to implement it into my own music.

HI, I am able to record in Ableton Lite Live 11 on a Macbook Pro from an Arturia Minilab mkII. For reasons I just cannot figure out, I am not hearing playback through headphones. I have checked all the various configurations. Thank you so much for any solutions or suggestions.

Hi everyone,

I'm a musician based in Paris, and something very strange happened during an Ableton Live session.

While working on a song, I started hearing what sounded like a male voice coming through my headphones. It happened intermittently over several hours.

My setup at the time was:

• MacBook Pro
• Ableton Live
• Universal Audio Apollo Twin
• Studio headphones

I recorded the sound by holding my iPhone next to the headphones, so you'll also hear some room and street noise.

I put together this short video simply to make the recording easier to follow. The recording itself is original and unprocessed—I'm only trying to understand what I'm hearing.

I'm not suggesting anything paranormal. I'm simply trying to understand what could have caused it.

Some possibilities I've considered:

• RF interference
• Audio routing issue
• Apollo/driver behavior
• Core Audio glitch
• EMI
• Something else entirely

The full recording starts at 00:31.

If you're short on time, the clearest section is around 01:41.

Has anyone experienced anything remotely similar with Ableton Live or a comparable setup?

YouTube link:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neEhI-Q47hA]()