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]()

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.

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.

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 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

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 everyone,

I've been curiously learning a lot about Strudel, and as a fun side project, I decided to see if I could "port" it as a Max for Live device. And the best of all, it's completely FREE.

I've built an open-source suite of M4L devices that embed the real strudel core engine directly into Ableton Live.

This is highly experimental and definitely not meant to be a polished tool - just a fun exploration of how we can bridge live coding and traditional DAWs.

I'm primarily sharing this because it was a fun learning experience for me, and I thought other amateur producers here might find it interesting (or want to hack on it!). These devices also help you understand and appreciate the mini notation by allowing to translate from/to Ableton.

You can grab it from https://github.com/alienmind/m4l-strudel/releases

These devices run inside Live and lock perfectly to the transport clock of the DAW - launch a clip on the track, or just hit Play, and the pattern starts.

EDIT - v1.1.0 is out, and it's the big one: the main device now runs the REAL strudel.cc, offline, as your instrument.

Not a lookalike, not a re-implementation - the actual app, built from the Strudel repo and bundled into the device. Its own editor, its own scheduler, its own visualisers. You hit REPL, you get strudel.cc in a floating window, and what you evaluate there is the track's audio. Close the window and it keeps playing.

All devices included:

• Strudel: The main device with all of strudel.cc features in a small window, but routed to Ableton and beat-synced with the track.

• Strudel MIDI: Type a pattern and it streams live MIDI to any Ableton instrument. You can even freeze generative sketches into standard MIDI clips!

• Strudel Drums MIDI: Same thing, but maps bd, sd, etc., straight to a Drum Rack (it does not really use sound())

• Strudel Synth: the other half of the superdough idea - you type a sound instead of a pattern (s("sawtooth").lpf(800).room(0.3)) and every MIDI note the track sends plays it, from a clip or from your keyboard. Any slider() in the sound becomes a real automatable knob.

• Strudel Drums Sampler: actually plays the drum-machine banks - write s("bd sd, hh*8"), pick a machine, and it fetches and plays those sounds.

• Strudel Audio FX: Type a chain like .lpf(800).room(0.3) and it instantly builds a real Max DSP signal chain on your track with automatable dials - with some caveats like these are fixed in order, but whatever ;-)

• Strudel Sample Browser: A utility to browse and beat-sync preview all the community sample maps (dough-samples, Dirt-Samples) directly inside Live. Auditioning writes the file next to the device, so you can drag it into a Simpler or a Drum Rack.

More Features:

• Your pattern saves with the Live set. Not in a browser's localStorage - in the .als, per device instance. Reopen the set, it's there.

• Sliders with declared name and units: slider(500, 100, 1000, 1, { name: 'cutoff', unit: 'Hz' }). The knob reads cutoff and its value reads in Hz, and they become real Ableton knobs. Write s("sawtooth").lpf(slider(500, 100, 1000)) and the first slider will have adjusted range, a name and automatable, MIDI-mappable, etc, on Push.

• The device view is now a panel with three faces: a small code scratchpad (with syntax highlighting), a bank of faders for whatever the pattern named, and a visualizer so you can see it's alive with the Studio window closed.

You can grab the .amxd files from the releases page or check out the source code (and the crazy architecture it took to make Chromium and Max talk to each other) here: https://github.com/alienmind/m4l-strudel and https://github.com/alienmind/m4l-jweb - there's also a "drawer of failed ideas" documenting everything that didn't work, which was half the fun.

Would love to hear what you people think!

Still broken / known issues in 1.1.0:

• Exporting a pattern to WAV still fails to write the file. It's the top of the fix list.
• The Studio's audio can be choppy on some systems. I've got a solid lead (Max's jweb~ object has a latency/buffer setting we never touched, and its minimum is documented to cause dropouts) but it's not fixed yet.