I’m playing guitar through Live more than ever.
I have Live 11 standard.
Is the Ableton Amp sim worth it at $99US?
At that price one could buy three or four amp sims from PA…
Probably not, but it’s included in the Suite, and I think the price to update Live Standard to Suite is worth it.
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For $ perhaps there are better amp sims for $100, but I do know a performer who uses default Live FX for his guitar processing since it’s easier for him to manage the complexity of project in his head, he doesn’t have to A/B a bunch of different plugins or manage licenses.
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I don’t l really know what an ableton mpe controller could do better than a linnstrument. I imagine it would focus on other stuff, more specific ableton integration.
Cost less. Linnstruments ain’t cheap.
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what am I getting myself into?
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Audio export only exports what’s in the arrangement view. So you’ll need to either record the scenes into the arranger live, or drag them in and shore up any shorter loops.
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thanks I got it working and will master this DAW.
You’ve gotten further than I have. I tried to sign up with Centercode a couple of times and still haven’t gotten a confirmation email.
Ha! Probably overloaded with demand. I’ve been on there for years so that bit wasn’t an issue
Not sure if this was added earlier, but I noticed in the Beta there’s a new ‘system audio’ feature in Ableton preferences, and upon booting it just routes out of the audio output I had going at the time. I’ve yet to thoroughly test but this has been a pain point for a while, very welcome addition.
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I installed the beta shortly after lunch and Drift was showing no bother. Sounds rather nice too. You def open the beta version of Live?
I’m in the beta program but don’t have it installed. Might re-install it to check. I’ll let you know if it’s there.
Not that it should matter but are you Windows or Mac?
My gut feel is something is coming. Just a feeling really with absolutely zero backing it up.
If Ableton can bring out a slimmer/lighter Push with some sort of continuous MPE friendly grid set up (think 8x8 linnstrument I guess) then count me in for a preorder!
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Oh, I mean everyone has different workflows!
I was saying that a friend has performed live with a cheapass Behringer pedal and Ableton “guitar” effects and nobody in the theater complained that “algorithms were too digital”.
“Too loud”, perhaps! But that’s always been a matter of expectations…
Giving more a reminder that musicality can always come through over worrying about what is the “most perfect” recreation.
What is the use case?
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It only makes sense to make a new Push that supports MPE. Ableton is getting to the point where they could make their own version of machine+ with stock FX, synths, samplers and M4L integration and they’d corner the market on modern “grooveboxes”. Maybe one day.
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I’m on mac… I’ll try reinstalling tomorrow and see if it works second time round 
Well, for a long time Ableton has been a bit daft about what audio output/interface you are using if you unplug things. Previously if unplug your interface it just says in orange down the bottom “audio output is disabled” or whatever, rather than just flicking back to whatever is being used by the system. So now it seems like it will just pickup whatever the system audio output is, rather than just doing nothing. But like I said wanna test this more, but I suspect this is the offered fix.
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This has already been available for a while, not sure how long but it is not new.
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