Live 4 - Midi pattern stretching? + other questions - help

[borax]

Hi,

How I can take a midi pattern, lets say 1 bar long, and stretch it to fit 4 bars? In other programs you select the midi and hold shift or something and it will stretch it as long as you want.

Is there anyway to do side-chaining for audio tracks in Live?

What is your prefered way to bounce a track down until we get freeze?

Is Live usable for mastering? It seems some what limited in this area.

How can I midi control a vsti like reaktor as an effect on a audio track? any routing that will work?

Thanks in advance

[pHz]

Hi,

hello

How I can take a midi pattern, lets say 1 bar long, and stretch it to fit 4 bars? In other programs you select the midi and hold shift or something and it will stretch it as long as you want.

AFAIK the only CURRENT way to do this is to take your one-bar clip - change the length in the 'notes' box to 4 bars then use the /2 and *2 buttons under 'orig BPM' to stretch out the notes to fit the new clip length

Is there anyway to do side-chaining for audio tracks in Live?

havent tried it but presumably use panning and track audio routing to route your 2 signals (control and process) into a 3rd track holding your sidechain-capable plugin

What is your prefered way to bounce a track down until we get freeze?

not ideal - but solo the track you want to render - render the audio and re-import the rendered track

Is Live usable for mastering? It seems some what limited in this area.

i use audition for mastering but if youve got a good mixdown file or a load of individual track audio files (see above) and some good mastering 3rd party plugins to slap on the master outs then you COULD use live for mastering

How can I midi control a vsti like reaktor as an effect on a audio track? any routing that will work?

IF reaktor shows up as accepting MIFDI input (like lucifer does but the ohmforce plugs dont) put reaktor on the audio track to be effected and set up a new MIDI track with the input you want to use to control it - then just route the MIDI track into the one holding reaktor (this WILL show up in the drop-down if reaktor is exposing itself to live properly)

Thanks in advance

np - hope some of this helps

slainte rob