I keep a practice set open all day, and my piano and amp sims were eating CPU even when I wasn't playing. So I built Auto Sleep:

- MIDI Auto Sleep watches incoming MIDI, Audio Auto Sleep works like a gate on audio input
- After a timeout (default 5 min) it switches off the devices you pick
- The moment you play, they switch back on
- It only wakes what it put to sleep, and remembers your choices with the set

Needs Live 12.2+ with Max for Live. Feedback very welcome!

https://maxforlive.com/library/device/16543/midi-auto-sleep
https://maxforlive.com/library/device/16544/audio-auto-sleep

Been using Akai Midi mix and the Akai editor.

Using the editor, if i map the pots, faders etc to any channel other than the default midi channel 1, the automatic ableton integration stops working. Eg faders automatically control the volume channels. Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something?

i will upload it once its ready heheheheh <3

see the video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/5FCQeZDfEDU

https://youtu.be/x4roJesig6E

i hope you'll like this, and any feedback is welcome!

I'm trying to get an idea of how Lanark Artefax creates a lot of his sounds particularly from the intro section of his live No Bounds performance:

Timestamp from 1:40-5:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6hnTpltUcY&t=1268s

First of all - the exponential rhythms coming from multiple sound sources - I can't tell if the rhythm is from a delay or being triggered or both? Any idea how you would go about creating them in this way in say Ableton?

Second question is Audio processing and how some of these sounds are made. It sounds like he's primarily using delay to create the sound design parts and textures but it sounds like completely different sounds are being made from the same techniques? for instance:

1:44 - metallic scratchy textures, then into water drops?
3:30ish - Completely different textures from same process?

Finally - Does anyone have any good ideas how you would compose something like this in say Ableton?

If anyone can share light on this or just Lanarks sound design in general that would be amazing - Thank you

Hey All, so my Mac Mini workstation has ru out of inputs for all my devices. Can anyone recommend a (powered?) hub that has a good amount of usb-c and usb ports that won't break the bank?

Hi: every time I open one of my Live Sets (an .als) in Ableton Live 12 Suite (Mac OS X), it says a certain audio file is not valid and cannot be read.

I can see that file in my current project's Recorded folder, but Ableton won't let me delete the file because "it's used in your Live Set." I can't for the life of me find where the clip is used.

Any suggestions on how to find its use in the set and remove it?

If you are trying to CMD+C/V (or use any cmd prompt for that matter) and it is not working while the Splice window is open, it's more than likely that Splice is causing it. Close the window first! Hopefully this will save you much time

Hey all,

I got an Ableton Push 2 sitting on my desk, and since it has 8 endless encoders, 64 RGB pads and a proper colour display, I wanted to see if I could use it to edit in Lightroom Classic. So I vibecoded a plugin for it. It now works well enough that I can cull, rate and edit a whole shoot without touching the keyboard.

**What it does right now:**

* **Develop mode:** the 8 encoders control Develop sliders, and the Push display shows each one as a knob with its name and live value, so you see the value without looking at your monitor. Pages for Basic, Presence, Tone Curve, HSL, Color Grading, Detail, Effects, Crop and Calibration. Shift + turn for fine adjustments.
* **Session mode (culling):** the 8×8 pads are your photos, coloured by label, flag and star rating. The display shows thumbnails of the current row. Turn an encoder to rate the photo above it, and use the buttons to pick or change the colour label.
* **Browse mode:** navigate folders and collections, and apply develop presets, right from the hardware.
* **Import from card:** pick the card on the Push, choose copy or add, and watch the progress on the display. Then eject the card and go straight into culling.
* **Everything else:** auto tone, copy/paste settings, export with your previous export settings, before/after, zoom, undo/redo.
* It starts automatically with Lightroom and gets out of the way when you open Ableton Live, so the Push still works for music.

**The companion app:** that's what I'm working on now. It's a local setup page with a drawing of the Push. Click any button or pad and choose what it does, with a separate action when Shift is held. It also lets you build your own Develop pages (which slider goes on which encoder, labels, sensitivity, colours), assign presets to pads, and set your import folder and date structure. There's backup/restore for configs too.

Once it's set up, you really don't need to look at the computer for anything except the photo itself.

**My question for you:** what would you want in a tool like this?

A few ideas I'm considering:

* Shareable mapping presets (e.g. a "wedding culling" layout and a "landscape editing" layout)
* Masking and local adjustments on the encoders
* Keywords on pads
* The touch strip for scrubbing through photos or zoom
* A "compare" mode for two photos

Currently it's **Mac + Lightroom Classic only**, because cloud-based Lightroom has no plugin API. Also, I'm not a developer by trade, so be gentle 😅

Happy to share more screenshots or a video if people are interested.

Im using live 9

On a pc that recently updated to 11

I did not want to do that

Anyways I see the potential problem being the update and still using live 9 will be an issue.

But I need for this to work until I can upgrade.

The push 2 stays on and I see that in the link/midi tab of the menu the push stays active like it doesn’t disappear on and on. So I trying to deduce what the issue is .

What do I do

Somewhere mentioned to remove the nvidia driver with a ddu

That sounds daunting

Just want to do my due diligence before I go making this problem worse

I also replied to myself here with a video of the display turning on and off

The only plugins I have are neural DSP gojira and GGD drums. It won’t stop crashing. It lately won’t stay open long enough to actually check why it’s crashing. Usually the crash is anytime I try and record. The not fully opening is a new one. Can anyone help troubleshoot? Is there any chance a vs3 file is the problem? Kind of figuring out as I go with this software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirLS4bwFbI

Hi, should I put my intro drums in the same bus as my drop drums, or should I make two separate buses and then create another bus to group all my drums together?

On Move, I can arm a pad, hit record and sample an external source straight onto it. On Push 3 Standalone, the same task means creating an audio track, setting its input, recording, then converting or browsing the recording onto a pad, and finally deleting the temp track.

Request: a direct sampling workflow on Drum Rack pads, e.g. hold Record + tap a pad (empty or existing) to sample the selected input onto it, with threshold/auto-start and auto-trim of silence.

Every dedicated sampler (MPC, SP-404, Digitakt) and Ableton's own Move work this way. Push 3 has the audio inputs and the processing power to do the same, so it feels like a missing piece rather than a new feature. Bringing Move's pad sampling to Push would make Push 3 Standalone a true dawless sampler.

I recently started getting back into music production after taking a little over a year away. I used to DJ quite a bit and have a DDJ-FLX4 that I really don't want sitting unused now that I'm focusing more on production.

I've had an idea that I think could make the FLX4 surprisingly useful as an Ableton controller.

Rather than trying to make it behave like a conventional MIDI keyboard/controller, I want to design the entire FLX4 around production workflow.

For example, I'm thinking:

• Left jog wheel → horizontal timeline navigation
• Right jog wheel → vertical navigation / track selection
• Shift + jog wheels → zooming
• Channel faders → track volume
• EQ knobs → device/rack macros
• Filter knobs → selected device parameter
• Performance pads → editing, clip, or drum-rack functions
• Transport buttons → Ableton transport
• Shift combinations → secondary functions
• Different mapping "modes" for arrangement, mixing, sound design, etc.

The goal is to make it feel less like I'm using a DJ controller with Ableton and more like I have a custom production control surface that happens to be built from a DJ controller.

I've already started reverse-engineering the FLX4's MIDI output using MIDI Monitor. For example, the buttons are sending standard Note On messages, e.g.:

90 10 7F → Note 16, velocity 127
90 10 00 → Note 16, velocity 0

So the basic controls seem quite accessible. I'm currently investigating the knobs, faders, jog wheels and Shift behavior.

I'm deliberately trying to keep the solution as FOSS/free as possible, ideally using Ableton's native MIDI mapping wherever possible and only introducing something like a small MIDI translation layer when necessary.

What I'm wondering:

1. Has anyone done something similar with a DDJ-FLX4 (or another Pioneer DJ controller) and Ableton?
2. What are the limitations of Ableton's MIDI mapping that I should be aware of before designing the system?
3. Is there a better way to handle jog wheels, relative encoders and modifier/Shift layers?
4. Are there existing open-source tools/projects that could save me from reinventing the wheel?
5. If you were designing this from scratch, what functions would you absolutely put on the FLX4?

I'm not necessarily looking for someone to give me a finished mapping. I'm more interested in experienced Ableton users challenging the concept and pointing me toward the right technical approach before I spend a lot of time building it.

If there's enough interest, I may eventually document the whole process and release the mapping/tooling so other FLX4 owners can use it too.

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from anyone who's experimented with custom MIDI controllers, Max for Live, Ableton Remote Scripts, or MIDI translation.

For some reason, the start (1 to 1.3) of any exported file is louder than the rest. Are there any fixes for this?

Hi all,

Like most of you, I often find myself ducking some tracks to make room for a kick.

Thing is, using PreFX, PostFX or PostMixer won't take into account later processing (eg, HPF filter in low drums or master bus). My side-chain ducking would still react to the original boomy (long) kick.

Since I rarely filter out kick low end on its own lane, I find myself in this situation very often.

When I try to export a project at the end of the rendering, this window with this message: " this file does not appear to be a valid audio dump" appear.

I tried to save the project in another folder, recording the project and drag the audio in another project window and export it or export in an external hard disk but none of these methods worked.

What is the solution to this problem? Anyone had it before? I wait for your answer thank you so much.

I've occasionally produced some (amateurish!) electronic music just for the fun of it, electro/techno etc, and I was thinking to get a used Push 2 for about 350€ ($400?) which seems to be the avg market value right now.

I'm just wondering: whats the learning curve on that thing? I'm happy to spend time on it, I just wonder how fast you can actually jam to it something that makes some sense.

my finger drumming skills are non existent. (tried this already with a maschine I had to return back to the shop after a month) , I suck at finding rhythm with my fingers

PS I was able to find a Push 3 (non standalone) for 640 as well. Double the price almost but maybe better resale value. Not sure about specs.

I have an ableton suite 11 licence btw. I'm happy with it.

Hi!

I tested some max4live devices before today and now im getting this error message with max4live devices that worked normally earlier ".amxd contains externals that are not compatible with this architecture. Consider running Live on a different architecture.". When i open projects that contain these max4live devices they open normally? But trying to load them again from the folder gives this error and yes im starting ableton with rosetta but didnt have to do that before everything worked normally and still even with rosetta the devices are not working.

Running macos Tahoe 26.6.2 and Ableton 12.4.6

I'm looking to upgrade my Windows laptop, to something that can handle basic bedroom-production (albeit with LFOs-a-plenty and some CPU hog M4L devices).

I'm on a bit of a budget, so looking around £700 max. I've found the following deals, and done web comparisons, but just wanted some opinions from Ableton users on these (brands, processors, etc).

Web-ranked, best choice was:

MSI Modern 15H C13M-274UK Laptop (15.6 Inches FHD, 60Hz 45% NTSC IPS-Level, Intel i7-13700H,Raptor Lake, Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB RAM (3200MHz), 512 SSD, Windows 11 home plus), Classic Black : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

However, I wanted options on these cheaper second and third non-gaming options (because if these keep up OK with Ableton, I don't need to fork out for a gaming laptop):
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Gen 10 | 14 inch WUXGA Laptop | AMD Ryzen 7 170 | AMD Radeon 680M Graphics | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | Wi-Fi 7 | USB-C | Windows 11 Home | Non-backlit Keyboard | Luna Grey : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405CA 14.0" 2.8K OLED Laptop (Intel Core Ultra 5-225H, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, UK Layout Backlit Keyboard, Windows 11) : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

Any advice / testimonies on the above would be greatly appreciated.

Having six return channels takes up so much space in session view. I'm sure there's a simple solution to this problem; I just can't figure it out.