You can definitely assign the solo and mute buttons. Which controller are you using anyway?

I use an ecler Nuo 4 Mixer and a Traktor Kontrol X1.. I have just took a look.. In my ableton version (8.2.7) you cant definitely assign to midi any drum rack pad solo, mute and play button...

It work for standard knobs but not for infinite rotary knob.. for example in traktor you select rotary from the drop down menu and it recognize how it should handle it, ableton does not unfortunately! And for example if i make a drum rack and want to assign a button to the solo and mute of the rack ...

Toloache wrote: I think live jam is great and all, but you have to be at least confident of your live skill to do something decent. Plus if you aren't accustomed to odd time signatures like steevio or some others you'll end muting sections in 2-4-8-16 bar aniway, because this is the signature our e...

i dont arrange at all, i do everything live, when i feel a change is needed i just do it. i find nothing more obvious than 32 / 64 bar sections, planned breakdowns, all that stuff is real old. but it doesnt mean that i wouldnt 'feel' a section that conforms to that if it works, but to plan it out i...

I do sometimes use percussion loops. But dunno if you can call it "looping" them. Basically i use them like a palette of sounds. Like i said in another thread, i put them in a sampler and use a little bit, usually with weird pitch curves, looped envelopes and fm modulation.. then a bit of ...

For me, the more creative lesson of the group was the jpls lessons. He was using a lot of follow action vocoding, delay and beat repeats to make some minimal-glitchy beats that sounded very good, even if the starting kits where abletons standard one... The next step in my workflow would be to route ...

Let's see... First of all, i find it help me to start writing down something in the arrangement view to start the creativity. Obviously first i prepare some elements that work togheter, to have something to arrange :) Give you a time limit, let'say two hours, to prepare some basic loops. After this ...

This is a fellow in the U.S. who specializes in electronic mastering. Reasonable rates and I have used him with great results. Yeah, it seem a nice guy, read his tutorial on his personal website and they were easy to understand and spot on when i was starting! However i was looking more to and hard...