Ok im new to the Ablton Live 8, i was a cubase 4 user perviously, im finding it hard to edit in Abelton like you can in Cubase, Visually cubase looked better in the Arrangment view and you could easly add i.e. an extra midi note for two kicks before a bassline kicked in with just a pen tool, i tried this in Ablton and its adding and extra midi note to the hole recorded kick track so its like double kick at the end of each bar??
if anyone understands what i mean and how to sort things like this the help would be massively apreshiated:)
Highlight the part you want to edit. Click and hold your mouse button on the highlighted part and move it to the left or right, then move it back to where it came from then let go of your mouse button. You now have a new section you can edit and it wont effect the rest.
[quote]roben (12/8/2009)[hr]Highlight the part you want to edit. Click and hold your mouse button on the highlighted part and move it to the left or right, then move it back to where it came from then let go of your mouse button. You now have a new section you can edit and it wont effect the rest.[/quote]
Cheers dude ill try that tonight,i knew it would be something simple
what the guys said should help you out, i would have to agree though that cubase and logic are much easier and faster for edits in arrange view. i’ve been using ableton for a while now (months not years) and would love to just cut down to one Daw but i’m not 100% sold on the ableton yet. i think ableton is great but when it comes to arranging my track i always feel like i want to be doing it in logic.
take your cursor and first highlight one bar where you would like to add a kick
with the one bar highlighted go to the top colored area hold down the left mouse button and move it like your were splitting it from the other piece
you should now see separation line marks on each side of the 1 bar area
now click on that piece and you should see the clip editor come up in the bottom of your screen
now you can add or take away what you like without effecting any other part in the track
when you drag out a loop in arrangement view it lays down the same pattern as specified by your original loop ifthe loop button is pressed in the clip editor, be it 1,2 or 4 bars ,etc. your basically telling ableton that you want to create a new clip and this is the area where its going to be
[quote]roben (12/11/2009)[hr]Thats exactly what I already said??[/quote]
ye you did dude i just didnt notice the editor change thats all,its a shame its not like cubase in terms of easy on that side,pros and cons in both i guess lol
[quote]roben (12/11/2009)[hr]Thats exactly what I already said??[/quote]
Not quite Roben yours was the concise version.
But it lacked the clarity of tommyt’s version lol
Either way lets hope Lee gets a result.
@jon I am still not sold on the idea that logic or cubase are in any way easier for
midi editing than Live though but then I’ve made Live my exclusive sequencer and have taken the time to learn most of its editing features.
@gianni, yeah warping in live 8 feels like a backward step in many ways, so much so I sometimes find myself resorting back to Live 7 to warp more complicated projects.
the simpler and impulse in ableton is wickid, off the top of my head cubase dosent come with a simpler type plug in so you end up paying more for something like halion 3 which isnt extactly easy on the pocket:laugh:
Well, for a newbie’s point of view, I’m finding Ableton really easy to work with. Especially after watching the tutorials here and reading a book/manual at the same time.
Whilst my usage levels are basic I guess, it lays out what I think I want to know in a very simple visual way.
Haven’t experienced other DAWs but I think that Ableton delivers everything I need. Not planning on turning pro just want to make music that other people enjoy listening to.
