yea don’t give 'em all the secrets now 
maybe? it’s not something I use so maybe someone else can chime in to verify
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Jedi Mind Trick!
You haven’t heard about EZD & EZB from us…
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Thanks!
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I’m gonna come in with a leftfield suggestion here … DW Soundworks is really, really good. I don’t know if it’s better than Toontracks or Addictive Drums or whatever, but for me it sounds great and plays really well when set up for finger drumming.
I think I posted here or in the Max thread that I really need to figure out a way of getting different parts of the pads to trigger different articulations, but even without that for me it sounds really, really good. Don’t sleep on some of the Ableton ones either, especially the MPE ones.
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May be of some help :
Multi zoned pads on PUSH 3 ( SD3/EZD3 )
https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/1dsill2/my_solution_for_multizoned_pads_on_push_3_for_use/
SD3/EZD3 Drum Rack for LIVE ( no MPE )
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Sweet, thanks a lot. I was thinking of trying to output a different midi note at different parts of the pad, but there doesn’t seem to be an off the shelf device for that so it was on my list to try and make my own.
CC is probably better though, but might need a bit more digging around in the plugin itself - it’s set up primarily for their electronic drum kits but should be able to do the job.
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It’s an animal in itself. I put 1000s of hours into the core gretsch kit and the legacy of rock kits. I will just play stuff and record into outboard and my DAW then I have a drum break I can chop up.
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Exactly!
I already lose myself into EZD3, can’t imagine with SD3… hahaha
The State of the Art & Jazz Session SDX sound oh so beautiful too.
EZD3 also plays well with the chop/repeat/mangle shenanigans from I have experienced so far, still experimenting stuff around.
But I find it way more satisfying to straight up layout ideas with EZD3 than doom scroll the drum breaks loops lists, building blocks of a track structure.
Whatever your need, drum break generator, full track… Your call.
Then copy/paste the midi blocks into Session View… etc.
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Can you not upload Live sets to the cloud? It’s only for Move & Note? I thought it would be an easy way to move stuff back and forth between my desktop and laptop but seems like it doesn’t work that way?
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You can use a folder linked to the cloud storage of your choice to sync, just need to specify that cloud files are saved locally, and that external files exist in the same place on desktop and laptop.
I use a Google drive I made just for projects, the free 15gb is enough for whatever I’m working on currently.
I also keep a samples folder on each, too big for cloud so i sync new samples manually.
Mostly work with synths not samples so it works for me
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I have an odd, and super effing annoying issue in Ableton. I have an audio track that I record into for looping. The clip records the audio and plays back as expected. I have a device group with an Auto-filter and Utility that I’m using to do some basic volume and tonal shaping with. This all works fine.
When I’m done performing with that clip, I stop the clip then delete it (or just move on to another blank clip). As I am live looping, I want the parameters in my device group to be set back to an initial state (I don’t want the Gain or Cutoff to be super low). I don’t want to have to do this manually each time.
To make this easier, I make the top clip on a track a one-shot/one bar clip that has automation to set the knobs back to their initial values. All of this works just fine.
The problem is, the clip that I just recorded then deleted, retains all of the values that were previously set. This is AFTER deleting the clip completely, launching my dummy parameter reset clip then recording a new loop into what should be a completely blank clip slot.
Nothing I do gets rid of the old values. This absolutely has to be a bug. I’m not sure why anyone would ever want to delete a clip and not have everything actually deleted.
Am I missing something? I can certainly take screen snips but it’s on an air gapped computer I’m setting up for live performance.
I have no idea, I just want to commend you on the detailed description for troubleshooting 
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Apparently not a bug. It would appear that Session View and Arrangement View are inextricably linked. The latter is always ‘keeping track’ of values regardless of what settings I enable or disable. I don’t have the brain bandwidth to dig into the reasoning but, as a long time Ableton user that works exclusively in Session View, I was unaware of this.
My issue can be resolved, not by using a dummy clip to automate the values back to an initialized state, but rather with a ‘Macro Variation’. The only downside, and it’s acceptable, is that I need to map to an external controller to trigger it. I’m working headless off of a mini system using the Move in ‘Control Live’ mode.
I can use my Intech BU16 to trigger the macro variation and reset the values. Just more kit to program and keep handy when I want to keep things lean.
Theres a M4L device for triggering macro variations. Can’t remember what it’s called though
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I think I found one from Ableton Drummer. Same bloke I purchased the ‘Fixed Clip’ devices from. I might just use the external button controller and free up that top clip slot.
follow actions, distortion and modulation in Live 12
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Yes, it’s just for Move/Note, and even there it’s limited to 8 (or was it 4?) Sets.
But, the service is now free, so Ableton is taking the cost of running it. When Move was released they hinted that in the future there might be paid plans, so perhaps that could also include cloud storage for Live sets.
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That’s insane
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Damn Ableton is the shit!!
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