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Over the last 6 months, our development team has been hard at work, completely overhauling the Control Surface Studio user interface, in order to do one thing... To give you a much smoother and intuitive MIDI remote script building experience. ...
Curious how everyone else is using MIDI Controllers and Keyboards in their own music production and performance setups? So were we.
That’s why we surveyed over 220 MIDI enthusiasts to find out what they’re using their own MIDI gear for, how important is MIDI equipment in their workflow and what challenges they face with using MIDI.
Here’s what we found out....
Ableton Live's MIDI mapping is an essential tool, but it can be confusing to a new comer of Ableton or even music production in general.
Today we’re going to go through everything you need to know in order to understand this powerful feature.
From explaining how MIDI works, setting up, to advanced techniques for creating sets of MIDI mappings inside Ableton Live versions 9, 10 and 11, which you can use again and again in all of your projects!...
When software ‘normalizes’ a piece of audio, it finds the loudest point in the audio (or ‘peak’). If the peak is -3db for example, normalizing will bring the entire audio recording up by 3db, so the highest peak now sits at 0db. ...
It can be pretty challenging to cancel out all background noise while recording.
Hiss from your audio interface, hum from the computer's fan, guitar buzz, microphone noise, or general surrounding commotion can ruin your audio.
If you can’t fix this before you start recording, the next best option is to do it by editing your audio recording afterwords. ...
If you have an Audio Interface then it’s probably pretty central to your music production studio.
But if you’re struggling to get Ableton Live to recognize yours, then this is a huge problem which will have stopped you in your music making tracks…
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When using Ableton Live to perform your music to a crowd or even just at home in your studio,
It's critical that you’re able to launch clips in time with the rest of your track.
There’s nothing worse than when a mistimed loop suddenly clangs out of the speakers and ruins your flow. ...
You’ve loaded up Ableton Live ready to create some music but oh no!…
To your horror, there’s no sound coming out of it!
Although this can feel pretty frustrating, you have no need to worry, it’s a common problem which many Ableton Live users will have to overcome at some point.
I’ve created this article to list all of the possible reasons why you can’t hear any audio from Ableton and help you to fix it. ...
Whether you’re performing in front of a crowd or practicing at home, being able to quickly see the current status of an Ableton Live parameter directly on your MIDI Controller is a great way to keep you in the zone and avoids the need to constantly switch over to your laptop screen and start clicking around.
Which leads us onto this question from one of our users: mamajuana....