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Re: Recording Live Performances with Ableton Live



Thanks, Per! I knew it would be something simple and I was over-complicating things. I will try this today. So, let's say I do this and record a 20 minute performance, then stop recording. If I repeat these steps, will it create a new wav file, or overright the one I just recorded?

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Doing what you're after is dirt simple i Live and one of the reason
Live is so popular. Here is a step for step walk-through for how to
record the main output:

1. Create a new audio track (assuming you're in in Session View, the
mixer/spreadsheet layout).
2. In this track's input slot, select "Master" as the input source.
3. Record enable the track.
4. Set its volum to zero (since you're already hearing all that from
the Master).
5. Click the slot's little square to start recording.

The recording will be of the format you have chosen in Live's
preferences and placed inside your project folder.

Now, if you are using nifty tricks including launching clips during
your performance - especially if doing this with scenes (the slots on
the Master track can trigger all other slots on that horizontal row,
called a "scene") - then you may want to empty all slots of the
recording track except for the one you're gonna trig initially to kick
off the recording. Otherwise other slots on that track will get
trigged to start recording a clip as a scene gets selected and this
will stop the recording clip on that track.

BTW, your email client is set to automatically answer to your address
instead of the list's. I guess this is not intentional as you did send
your post to the list?

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen



On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Kris Hartung <krispen.hartung@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm curious how many of you are using Live to record your live looping
performances. For some reason I am finding this a bit cumbersome. I am
used to my easy way of just recording my main output to a wav file in
MAX/MSP. Now I have this whole business of tracks, exporting, etc.

The problem I'm having is that I am importing a wav drum sample, which I
loop in a live track, then and then I play my guitar and loop over that drum loop. But when record it only records my guitar witihn the drum loop segment over and over. I don't want to un-loop the drum sample, because then I have
to drag it out a fixed number of measures, which defeats the purpose of
improvisation. How do I work around this? Is there a way to have the drum
sample loop, but record the live out put of me playing with it?