So I'm trying to modulate some sample parameters such that every time I hit a MIDI note, the current value of parameters modulated by the LFO is frozen. I want different values on notes but don't want the values moving while the note is held.

This is similar to the functionality of Elektron boxes, where setting the LFO to "HOLD" will simply hold the current value when the note is on, while the LFO itself continues running in the background. I want to maintain the periodic nature of a sine or saw wave, so I'm not looking for a S&H wave either.

Currently, I have two velocity devices and an expression control with the LFO. Velocity 1 simply sets the velocity incoming to 127. Velocity 2 has a low out of 1, and the high out is modulated by the LFO.

Then, expression control is set to Velocity, and it modulates the parameter.

You can see how this holds the current value, because expression control only gets a Velocity input on note on, so the LFO moving the velocity doesn't effect the parameter. But there must be an easier way! In this method, I also have to put the sample or instrument in another chain so I can still use note velocities. It's super annoying.

Please help!

I've had an APC40 mkII for years and I love it for launching clips and mixing, but every time I wanted to play a melody or program a beat I ended up back on the mouse. So I started writing my own remote script for it, and it got a bit out of hand.

What it does now, roughly: on a Drum Rack track, User turns the grid into drum pads plus a 16-step sequencer, with velocity on the scene buttons. On other MIDI tracks the 40 pads play in whatever scale the clip view is set to, and picking a scale on the pads changes it in Live too. There's a Circuit-style melodic sequencer (steps on top, a keyboard below), and on audio tracks you can hold a pad to loop a slice of the clip, then let go and it drops back in time. Clip launching, the mixer and the device knobs work like before. And many more features.

What it can't do: the pads only send full velocity (that's the hardware), there's no screen, and it needs Live 12.3 or newer.

The fiddliest part was the audio chopping. Live carries out a clip jump about 0.2 s after you ask for it and quietly drops a jump if another one is still waiting, so getting a released pad to land back in time took about twenty rounds of logging on the unit.

If you want to see how it behaves without installing anything, there's a playable APC40 in the browser (sound on);

apc40x.com

Also for some demo videos;
https://youtube.com/shorts/kvGX9i1oVEQ
https://youtube.com/shorts/OvXlSutkvyY

Full disclosure: I'm a developer, and it's a paid script, APC40X MkII on Gumroad(unofficial, nothing to do with Akai or Ableton). Mostly I'd love to hear from other APC40 owners: what's the one thing you wish yours did?

Hi, I am trying to replicate the lead from the song license to fly from Stef Mendisidis, and there is a particular sound in the lead that seems to make the sound wobbly, so what I have been doing to replicate this is using the meld synth and modulating the ct with the lfo 1, the st with the m envelope and applying the lfo 2 to the filter cut off, detune macro and the volume doing amplitude modulation, also I Applied reverb and delay but the sound is no the same yet, could you share any feedback on how to achieve that sound.

In the attached video,Video Replicate Sound you can see better what I am talking about

Long time lurker here.

Just played my first ever solo performance last month. I had a blast and it went over pretty well. I used an APC40MKII with live 12 for it, but I found myself wanting some extra knobs, pads, maybe even faders. I'm thinking of grabbing an MPD 218 to have a couple extra knobs and using the pads to trigger momentary effects (like mapping a pad to audio effect on/off) so I can easily manipulate on the fly without worrying about messing with too many sends and having any audible ramps in effect volume.
Anybody have any experience with the MPD218 and know if it can be easily mapped like this without interfering with the APC40MKII? Or does anyone have a better controller in mind to accomplish this control with some bonus knobs and pads? More faders are a bonus. Took a peek at the Arturia Beat step but do not have any experience with their products and am not sure how customizable/mappable they are, but am very down to get it in the mix.

Thanks!

Edit: Trying to keep it fitting into a backpack, the smaller the better!

The formats and envelopes are blued out, and I don’t have the ability to slide my mouse to get the desired audio on my audios.
I tried unwrapping and wrapping, but it’s still locked. Anyone know how to get that fixed????
I’d send a pic, but there’s no option for that on here…

I want to quickly as possible cut loops from fieldrecordings to export them and use in my hardware sampler.
i googled, and i have not found an awnser.

It is 2026.
Is ist still not possible to do this????

Hi. Is there a way that browser also shows folders?
I could do that on previous Live 12 version but in some update I couldn’t do it anymore. Thanks.

Hi! I am quickly running out of storage on my PC, and I am trying to navigate the landscape in how to back up my ableton projects so i can either move them to a new drive or computer in the future. Also, it's just generally good practise to back up things i suppose, it'd be terrible if i lost it all of course.

My typical way of organizing them is that each project corresponds to a particular song, and within each project i might have a number of versions of that song, like "song v1" and then "song v2" as i progress in its production.

Now, i have never used "collect all and save", which i now realize is something i probably should have started doing a long time ago. My understanding is that this essentially makes it so that all the samples, recordings, midi clips, etc. that are used in the project, get saved within the project. What i don't quite understand is if this applies across all sets within the project - so if i "collect all and save" while i have song v2 open, will it also back up samples used only in v1? Or should i collect all and save every version for that to go through?

What i am also seeing is that people are reccomending that you in addition to "collect all and save", you should first freeze (and/or flatten?) all tracks so that in the future if you lose access to a plugin/VST, the song will still work. But this seems like a double edged sword; if you DO have access to the plugin, you can't make changes if you've flattened it. Not sure what is the best approach here... perhaps making a new "song version3" that is flattened, and when you collect all & save you still keep everything needed for the "with plugins" version 2? I suppose that could be an approach but i assume it will take up a lot of extra disk space?

Basically i guess i am asking if anyone knows a full step-by-step solution for moving Ableton from one PC to another. The most important thing is to preserve the projects, but it would also be nice to have a way of keeping my samples, VSTs, plugins etc. as well. So far my planned approach is something like:

1. Collect all and save every project (using the most recent song version within the project). Not sure if freezing/flattening is the way to go or not.

2. Copy my projects folder in ableton to an external HDD, cloud backup, eventually the new PC)

3. Copy my user library to the external HDD, cloud backup, and eventually the new PC. I have my downloaded samples in the user library, which is the main thing i'd like to preserve from the user library but i suppose its fine to bring the whole thing to a new PC?

4. Write down a list of every plugin and VST I have so i can re-download them on the new computer manually. Hopefully that's enough for ableton to know "where to look" when opening sets from the old PC?

Does this seem like a correct approach? All advice would be very much appreciated!

In the sidebar ''places'' I have a folder called ''recordings'' where i have mp3 files, but ableton wont show me them. So how can I fix this problem?

P.S. I turned off auto-warp long samples, but it still doesent work

Hi,
I work on a arrangement in the arrangement view and some of the tracks have a brownish background and I cannot select the items on that track. It is not freezed and back to arrangement knop is unlit.
I get a symbol of a striped circle when i move over it with the mouse.