

And you can see that when you write real-time automation, the automation nodes, or break points, can get pretty dense. Now once we've got that, you might want to zoom in, so I'll hit my + key to do that. So, here we go! (metronome tapping) (upbeat synthesized music) All right. That way, that'll leave my mouse handy so that I can move the value here on the track volume, which is what I'm going to automate. So to go into record here in arrangement view, we'll just need to hit our F9 key, which is the shortcut for enabling the record button. And then I'm going to be using my mouse in this first demonstration. So if my curse was over here, I would just simply click at my start point to set that. So, I want to start over here at the beginning. We also need to make sure our cursor is set at where we want to start recording automation. So, I've got that set at one bar, so when we get ready to start recording the automation, we'll at least get four clicks before this drops into record. It's also helpful to have your count-in enabled. Otherwise, as we record the automation, it's going to be erasing, or overwriting, the underlying MIDI notes. Now, when we're recording automation in arrangement view to a MIDI track, we'll want to make sure that we have the MIDI overdub switch enabled. So first of all, to record our automation, you're going to want to enable the automation arm button, which is this one that looks like two nodes connected by a line. And let's do a couple of things to get prepared here.

Or we can use the key command, which is just the letter "a." So, I'll hit that so that we can see the automation. And as I record real-time automation, I like to see what it's doing, so let's go ahead and let's enable automation mode, which we can do by clicking the automation mode button here, and enabling it. So I've got Exercise 4 from Chapter 12 open, if you want to follow along, and we're starting in arrangement view. I've given up using it.- Drawing in graphical automation doesn't always yield the most musical results, so let's take a look at how you can record real-time automation using your mouse or a MIDI controller. Word of warning to any Motu Ultralite users though - my AMD machine hates my Ultralite Mk3. I wonder if some of you guys with 16GB are running into issues with Live swapping from memory to disk because my system is reporting 28GB of RAM usage with the number of tracks it hits before the audio issues start.
#ABLETON LIVE DEMONSTRATION PRO#
Hard Disk type (SSD or HDD) and Speed (if you know)? – ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro M2 NVMe 1TB SSD
#ABLETON LIVE DEMONSTRATION DRIVER#
Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? – Focusrite 2i4 - Driver Version 4.63.24.564ĩ. Amount of Ram? – 64GB - G.Skill Trident Neo 3600Mhz CL16 (4 x 16GB)Ĩ. CPU Make, Model, and Speed? – AMD 3900X - 12 Coreħ. Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? – Desktop Home BrewĦ. Maximum number of playback tracks? – somewhere between 494 and 511 - I used the same technique as garyboozy - couldn't be arsed finessing it in between those two numbers.ģ. Ableton Live CPU Meter % with the Live Set for the Lesson – 19%Ģ. Hard Disk type (SSD or HDD) and Speed (if you know)? Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)?ĩ. Maximum number of playback tracks? (#5 above)Ĩ.

Ableton Live CPU Meter % with the the Live Set for the Lesson.

Note the maximum number of tracks played.įill in as much information as you can to make the test as worthwhile as possible for others:ġ. Extra Credit - Copy all 16 tracks to make 32 tracks and repeat until Live's audio is disrupted. Play the Lesson's 16 track demo Live Set and note the highest CPU load reported by the CPU meter.ĥ. Open Live's Help View (Help Menu - Help View)Ĥ. Make sure that only one pair of Outputs is active if your soundcard has multiple outs.ġ. Driver Error Compensation to "0.00ms" in Live's Audio Preferences window.ĥ. The easiest way to do this is to select this field with your mouse and press the Delete Key. Set your audio buffer to 512 samples in the Audio Preferences window in Live. This test was created to let users compare the performance of Ableton Live version 10 on different computer set ups.ġ.
