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cowby · Post by **cowby** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:36 am

Hi, as far as I know adding chords in the piano roll is pretty easy in FL Studio and it will show the full visibility of the notes when you click say F major (3 notes will follow your cursor). However, I don't know how to do it in Live 9. Is there a quick way to do it like in FLStudio ?

Cheers!
Cowby

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:57 am

No. You need to enter notes manually. And figure out the scale on your own

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:22 am

Yes, you can do it although it's not as easy as in FL Studio, Cubase or Studio One.

Use Chord (https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live- ... nce/#chord) and Scale (https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live- ... nce/#scale), both should come with number of presets for most common scales. As a result you'll play one note, but Live will - on the fly - generate the remaining notes of the chord. The 'drawback' is you won't see those other notes in MIDI clip*, but you'll hear them.

* you can get around that, by adding a new empty instrument track, set its input to the MIDI signal coming from your main track and record.

xbitz · Post by **xbitz** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:44 am

easiest with Push and Step Recording (keep pressing 3+ pads then press the right cursor)

with NativeKONTROL PXT-Live Plus u can store/recall/invert/route different voices to different tracks etc. them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YZ3gf8okmQ

using Live without Push is PITA in many cases

tooneba · Post by **tooneba** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:03 am

if if if if if if if if you

Buy $600 controller = easy!

Okie doke

xbitz · Post by **xbitz** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:58 am

ebay Ableton-Push-2 $355, Push-1-$155, there is a 10bucks template too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_qOGMUzpAU

Kinh · Post by **Kinh** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:12 pm

Shit, why dont you just play em with a keyboard?

xbitz · Post by **xbitz** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:21 pm

on Push all the chords (inversion etc.) have fix pattern independently from the used scales

there is a quite good Cat andbeats series about it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... xY2svjxkSQ

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:48 pm

xbitz wrote:...

LOL at your signature! I've only now noticed it

tooneba · Post by **tooneba** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:59 pm

Ableton have been appealing to laptop users for having famous single-window approach. Then encouraging users to get hardware to achieve things other software is doing w/o it. That's some nice business strategy going on there.

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:42 pm

tooneba wrote:Ableton have been appealing to laptop users for having famous single-window approach. Then encouraging users to get hardware to achieve things other software is doing w/o it. That's some nice business strategy going on there.

How is that relevant to the topic at hand?

You obviously can enter chords using the laptop keyboard, also by pressing all keys at once. And you can buy several good MIDI keyboards for the price of Push 1/2, so I'm not sure how Ableton would encourage anyone to buy them if there weren't extra features there, like full Live integration with clip launching, recording & looping, mixer & device control, sequencer and - yes - clever note input. Are you jealous that someone who doesn't play piano is finally able to play correct chords and melodies? Or that people can do music on laptops and it doesn't require huge and expensive studios?

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:16 pm

Yes, you can enter any notes you want into the Ableton Live piano roll. As many notes as you want, simultaneously or in any order. Any chord you can imagine, you’re free to enter it without limitations. And you aren’t stuck with a predetermined list of only the chords that some programmer decided you might need. Not only that, but you can choose whether to draw the notes in by hand or to record your own virtuoso performance on a MIDI controller. It really is quite powerful and flexible in that regard.

tooneba · Post by **tooneba** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:34 pm

antic604 wrote:
tooneba wrote:Ableton have been appealing to laptop users for having famous single-window approach. Then encouraging users to get hardware to achieve things other software is doing w/o it. That's some nice business strategy going on there.
How is that relevant to the topic at hand?

You obviously can enter chords using the laptop keyboard, also by pressing all keys at once. And you can buy several good MIDI keyboards for the price of Push 1/2, so I'm not sure how Ableton would encourage anyone to buy them if there weren't extra features there, like full Live integration with clip launching, recording & looping, mixer & device control, sequencer and - yes - clever note input. Are you jealous that someone who doesn't play piano is finally able to play correct chords and melodies? Or that people can do music on laptops and it doesn't require huge and expensive studios?

Unlike you I'm not interested in deciding which DAW is superior, so I have no motivation to be jealous of Daw X because of not having it. And also I'm riding the bandwagon who wants this tool to be in Live, additionally I'm having both softwares. Only the reality that I'm having this exact software motivate me to comment. So I have no clue where you came up with that.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:55 pm

To sum things up, drop-down chord menu is a feature exclusive to Fruity Loops and Ableton doesn't have it. It has many different features, though.

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:01 pm

tooneba wrote:
antic604 wrote:
tooneba wrote:Ableton have been appealing to laptop users for having famous single-window approach. Then encouraging users to get hardware to achieve things other software is doing w/o it. That's some nice business strategy going on there.
How is that relevant to the topic at hand?

You obviously can enter chords using the laptop keyboard, also by pressing all keys at once. And you can buy several good MIDI keyboards for the price of Push 1/2, so I'm not sure how Ableton would encourage anyone to buy them if there weren't extra features there, like full Live integration with clip launching, recording & looping, mixer & device control, sequencer and - yes - clever note input. Are you jealous that someone who doesn't play piano is finally able to play correct chords and melodies? Or that people can do music on laptops and it doesn't require huge and expensive studios?
Unlike you I'm not interested in deciding which DAW is superior, so I have no motivation to be jealous of Daw X because of not having it. And also I'm riding the bandwagon who wants this tool to be in Live, additionally I'm having both softwares. Only the reality that I'm having this exact software motivate me to comment. So I have no clue where you came up with that.

What? You started it, by somehow connecting lack of explicit chord support in Live to their alleged, ridiculous plot to prioritize laptop users and push - pun intended - their own controller upon them to compensate for the "omission". And for you information, I own Live 9 Suite, Studio One 3.5 and Bitwig 2 and actually Live is the least favourite of mine, so I have no clue where you got that "deciding which DAW is superior" bit... I was just pointing out how ridiculous your first post was, but your new one beat it.

Adding chords in Live 9 ?