This may or may not be kind of what you’re looking for? It’s fun, regardless.
https://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/917/chord-generator
No, that would just create a chord for each note. I’ll show it, maybe it would be easier to understand. What I want is something that takes this:
And turns it into this:
So basically, same notes, but vertically. The device would let me choose the number of notes in “collects” before creating a chord, like 3 in this example. Importantly, it would stay silent for the first two notes it receives, and then send three at once. The Chord device I know, but it functions differently.
ah, then dunno 
I’d be amazed if this already exists, sounds quite niche, but sounds like the perfect excuse to learn Max for Live - I don’t think it would be toooo hard in there
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Reverse engineer it:
Scale(1) -> Single note -> chord device -> arpeggio device -> scale(2) -> swing to taste
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Is there anyway to resize the Drumrack instrument? Finding it too small. Quite like the idea of being able to fullscreen the effects/instrument section when needed. Surprised I can’t pinch the effects/instrument window further up when needed.
Maybe someone here can help me with this. I’m using ableton on a windows 11 machine. When I record audio and it’s in the temp folder I can’t drag and drop the audio into other applications like Synplant 2 for example, to just easily drop and use. I have to save the project and samples, same if I locate the sample in windows explorer my media program can’t play it until it’s saved.
The error I get is that it’s being used in another application. That’s fine, I get that. But I’ve seen other people record audio in ableton and instantly just drag and drop it into synplant 2 without having to save anything (I know this isn’t a synplant problem it’s ableton). Is there a switch I need to flip to get it to work this way? Maybe it’s some sort of auto save samples rather than put them in a temporary folder thing?
Any help would be appreciated.
I’ve had a similar problem with dragging and dropping files onto the SP-404 app from Ableton. I’ve read that simply renaming the clip (or even just using ctrl-r to open the rename window) fixes this, but I haven’t been able to test it yet
How do you all record your jams you do in Session View?
Before with all hardware and a mixer I just hooked up a field recorder to the main out headphones and called it a day but I can’t figure out how to do the equivalent in Ableton. I tried to make a new Audio Track with audio in from the Master but as soon as I hit stop it abruptly cuts off the audio for a perfect little loop when I want it to keep recording for the release of sounds, effect tails and a little silence and such.
You just invented the anti-arp.
Seriously, I would warn you against trying this as a first project with M4L. Note manipulations in M4L are A PAIN, maybe the trickiest thing to do with Live API as they rely on the dictionary structures that involves quite a lot of knowledge and the use of many many objects for a simple task.
If you’re already into javascript, maybe, then.
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I switch to arrangement view and hit record, making sure I have any external audio tracks armed to record. For ITB effects spillover I’d just check that the end time of the track allows for it when I go to export. You can also ‘freeze’ the ITB tracks once you’re happy with them if you want. Overall this is a nice approach because you can fix minor stuff like volume automation on a live set you’re mostly happy with.
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Mmmmmm I didn’t try but don’t you need only a midi instrument with midi in and out and a careful implementation of a list?
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Wonder when they’re coming out with Ableton 12, maybe on the backburner right now cause of push? its been almost 3 years right
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Well, if you want to gather “live” the incoming midi notes, yeah, you could listen to the notes, gather them and stick them together, and play them back in the form of a chord, but then : how ? when ?
What @tdmusic wish to do (unless I’m mistaken) is to read+write the note data of the clip. Which is not trivial and achieved with the likes of call_get_notes_extended method which stores and retrieves note data in [dict] objects. Far from beginner level.
See : Article: What's New in Live 11, Part 2 | Cycling '74
@tdmusic : if its really super important to you, I could give it a try.
Not important to me at all, it wasn’t my request 
but I was suggesting to the OP they might be able to do it.
I’m not super familiar with Max though, I thought it might be quite easy but maybe not! I am more familiar with JS myself (it’s my days job) where that kind of thing is fairly easy
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Ableton 8 : 2009
Ableton 9 : 2013
Ableton 10 : 2018
Ableton 11 : 2021
Ableton goes about 3-5 years between releases - I guess we will see!
For 10 and 11, Betas were announced in ~November and released in ~February.
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Ah ok, that goes to @puls then !
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Question for the Ableton heads out there. I have found that I see both sides of the argument that Suite puts a lot of other VSTs out of a job, once you get to grips with how to use it. My experience is feeling like as you get more advanced with certain VSTs, you can more easily translate that experience to Ableton stock devices. But since you are often building racks to make those sounds production ready, that takes time. There are a few things that I don’t think I’d let go of for a bit, and some not at all. But I may not upgrade certain bundles, and might begin to rely more on the stock devices as I get more confident in producing.
Interested to hear from others if and how anyone has minimised around Ableton, and is anyone on a path to rely more steadily on the Ableton stock devices? I have been reconsidering Push as the next big move (not standalone.) I guess once you start looking at Push, I can see how sticking to stock starts to make sense for the integration of the workflow. Interested to see if anyone has done this over a period of time and how you did it - or if you’ve attempted this but actually find that you still wanted those sweet external VSTs.