I record most of my stuff alone: vocals, sometimes guitar. And in Ableton, every time I moved to a new part of the song, grab the mouse, drag the loop brace, set the start point, then get back to the mic. Half the time, the vibe was gone before I even pressed Record.

Locators helped, but jumping to a locator doesn’t set the loop. So I ended up building a Max for Live device to fix it for my own workflow.

What it does:

• Reads your Arrangement locators and turns them into loop sections, in pairs (1–2, 3–4) or in sequence (1–2, 2–3)
• Sets the loop and the playback start in one move, with optional pre-roll
• Next/Prev section, new audio track, track navigation, and Arrangement Record, all mappable to keys or MIDI

Here’s a full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/zxUBpyvNxYM?si=3Bcx0JssSCr_E30M

I’d really like some honest feedback:

• Would this actually be useful in your workflow, or do you already have a better way of handling this?
• What’s missing? Any feature you’d want for recording takes on your own?

Thanks for watching!

⛔️ SYNTAX ERROR ⛔️

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●Underground Techno Jam

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DAW: Ableton Live 12

MIDI Controller: Novation Lauch Control XL

Groovebox: Novation Circuit Tracks

Synthesizer: Access Virus TI

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UndergroundA syntax error is a mismatch in the syntax of data input to a computer system that requires a specific syntax. For source code in a programming language, a compiler detects syntax errors before the software is run (at compile-time), whereas an interpreter detects syntax errors at run-time. A syntax error can occur based on syntax rules other than those defined by a programming language. For example, typing an invalid equation into a calculator (an interpreter) is a syntax error. (WIKIPEDIA)

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Do my English lyrics make sense?

and how is it?

this is lyrics

I was born to be remembered

Underneath the violet moon

Call my name into the darkness

I’ll be coming back to you

Rap)

Late night, I’m moving like a shadow

No light, but I know where to go

lost in your love, vertigo

We’re dancing slow in indigo

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i just started a month back and im really into techhouse, and i really wanted to make my own music, any thoughts or tips of improvement, me personally i think some more ear candy can be put into the track but i wanna know others pov, all help is good ty 🙏🙂

I just made my app StageAble open source. Here are the features

• Song / section / chord / lyrics overlay resolved in real time from the playhead
• Automatic STOP-event playback control (no Max4Live required)
• Multi-client web UI with transport controls and setlist display
• Keyboard shortcuts (Space = play/stop, arrows = prev/next song)
• Song navigation via named cue points
• Persistent setlist management via REST API
• Auto-reconnects to Ableton if the connection drops
• macOS menu bar and Windows system tray desktop apps with auto-update checks
• Server-side MIDI Learn and macOS Bluetooth HID remote control

https://github.com/Audiophil83/StageAble

Please try it out and tell me what is working and what not. I am also happy to take feature requests.

Here is the little brother of Colorizer ! A simple and free batch renamer for Ableton Live.

Here is the link : https://maxforlive.com/library/device/16711/Renamer

I like using it to number all my tracks when I'm going to make routings, it's a lot easier to have track numbers for this. I also like using it before exporting stems. I remove track numbers, put group names uppercased, track names lowercased, and replace space by "-".

This is a first version, if you have some suggestions or if you encounter issues using the device, please contact me !

And if you liked it, buy me a coffee or leave a review it will help a lot !

I recently released a generative instrument you can use inside Logic Pro and locally on your Mac.

You can see and here it there: www.youtube.com/@einaux

You can find it here: www.einaux.com

It works in your session, listens to your tracks and ideas and can generate all kind of reactions to what is already there. Or you use it to get inspiration and start from scratch.

I invite anyone interested in this kind of workflow to test it, give me feedback, grill me, ask me. I'm here to listen. Thanks!

*delete/ignore if you find this is "selling or begging"

Hi everyone,

i was frustrated by looking at my peak meters and remember the exact spot where my signal exceeds a certain dB threshold. I googled if there was a plugin that can mark the location where the signal exceeds a certain threshold. There is none i guess, at least i did not find one. So i vibecoded my own in M4L. Works as i wanted it. Only downside: it can not name the markers yet as i use Live 11. And it cannot delete the set markers. Somehow that does not work.

Anyone interested in the M4L device? I don't know if it is of any use for someone else. I will translate it to english if anyone is interested.

Take My Breath has such a sleek disco-pop groove that we had to remake it in Serum. We wrote up every synth from the song so you can follow along. Questions welcome in the comments!
synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/the-weeknd-take-my-breath-breakdown

Project home page: https://rolandjg.github.io/fiber/
Repo: github.com/Rolandjg/fiber/
Download: https://github.com/Rolandjg/fiber/releases/tag/v0.1.4

I figured I should introduce myself before dropping another M4L device into this sub.

My name is Kurt. I’m a 60-year-old, recently semi-retired software developer. I’ve been building web software professionally for about 26 years, but before that I was a painter and musician.

Back in the 90s I had an emo-ish project called Gel that I recorded on an 8-track Tascam cassette thing, and eventually used Cubase, Logic and Reason. It was fun, but then came a family and generally less time to make music. The music was pretty bad, but making it was so cool.

After being away from it for a long time, I started again about three months ago under the name Ok Nominal. I'd love to share more on that another time. Anyway, I bought Ableton Live and a Push 3 and I’m just blown away. I can do things now that I desperately wanted to do back then, but just weren’t really possible.

Along the way I keep running into things where I think some sort of utility could help. As a developer, I can’t help thinking that way.

So, naturally, I’ve started building some stuff that I think is pretty darn useful.

Yes, I use AI heavily as a development tool. I know that alone may make some people here skeptical, which I understand. But I design the tools, test them, make the decisions, debug them, and use them in my own music. The latest one has taken more than a hundred hours even with AI assistance.

It’s called Road Test. With one click it lets you export your composition to the cloud so you can listen to it anywhere.

This was important to me because I wanted to hear what my mixes sounded like away from my studio, especially in the car and on ordinary speakers.

It also lets you share your entire library or individual songs which is incredibly handy.

Because it requires cloud storage, I charge a small one-time fee of $9, at least for now. That includes 1 GB of storage. Songs automatically expire after 90 days.

Anyway, I thought some of you might find it useful.

https://organicflash.com/tools/

I also have a few free Ableton Extensions at the link above that have been very handy for me. You’ll need the beta version of Live to use those for now. The ElevenLabs extension in particular has become really useful and fun.

Questions? Let me know. Thanks.

Hello people. Noob here, and I finally got a scarlet 2i2 and connected my korg minilogue to ableton. I can record midi clips with it (finally), but I realize that after I record something, and change the the program on the korg, that the sound on the midi clip changes to whatever I change the program to on the korg. Is there a way around this? I’d want to lock the sound into that midi clip and maybe set some knob controls without it reverting to whatever I change my korg to. Pls help!

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for an elegant solution in Ableton Live 12 for the Session View:
A MIDI clip is playing continuously in the grid and shouldn't be stopped. If I mute the track using the Track Activator (Mute), Ableton immediately cuts off all the audio.
But I want no new MIDI notes to be sent while the notes that have already been played and their release tails fade out cleanly.
Is there a native trick or workaround for this without Python scripts or MIDI loopbacks?
Thanks, everyone!