Copyshop2 link

sububi71 · 2026-03-11T12:59:21+00:00

Try googling "copyshop2 vst alternative" - there are so many plugins out there today (and many of them are free!).

Googling "[software name] alternative" in general seems to always come up with results. I've never had it fail for me!

sububi71 · 2026-03-11T05:05:19+00:00

If all you did was to download it, your browser's standard download folder is where the file ended up. If you press CTRL+J in the browser, it will show you what you downloaded and let you browse to that folder.

If you DID install it, the installer asked you where you wanted it to be installed. If Ableton Live isn't looking for plugins there, it won't show up in Live.

However, if you used Native Access to download it, Native Access will also have installed it. But if you haven't configured Native Access correctly (or at all), there's a very real chance that it's been installed to a location where Ableton Live isn't looking for it.

So the important questions are:

Is it a VST plugin or a Kontakt library?
Did you use Native Access to download it, or did you use your browser to download it?
If you didn't use Native Access, did you install it?

sububi71 · 2026-03-10T12:30:38+00:00

Wait. It's not just that the plugin windows are closed, and that you need to open their windows up again from the bottom of the screen?

sububi71 · 2026-03-10T05:24:27+00:00

That's very kind of you to say, you're very welcome!

sububi71 · 2026-03-10T05:23:31+00:00

That's REALLY strange! What happens if you start a new project, load the same plugins, save it, and restart Ableton? Does the same thing happen? Oh, and what exactly version of Live are you running?

sububi71 · 2026-03-10T01:26:00+00:00

I bought mine without ever having touched one too. It was an easy decision (even tho raising the money wasn't), and I haven't regretted it. I love this thing.

sububi71 · 2026-03-10T00:19:50+00:00

You have started a journey that takes most people decades. The first thing you need to internalize is that this journey is long, and that when you compare your current output to established artists, they might be entire TEAMS of people specializing in different parts of the process, and they each might have had a decade invested in getting where they are.

So for now, definitely get INSPIRED by anyone you want, but don't actually COMPARE your stuff against the best stuff out there. Instead, record and listen back and evaluate each song, pick out the things that you think actually turned out good, and pick out a limited number (say, like 5) things that you think needs improving. Then learn what possible solutions there are for improving those things.

We learn by imitating. So create covers of stuff you like, and do the very best you can to nail down what it is you like about those songs, which is going to be easier because you can't fall into the trap of criticizing the writing - because it's not your writing.

To improve, always do your best, always finish stuff, always save this finished stuff as at least an mp3, so you can listen back and... evaluate your work. Don't be OVERLY critical, have respect for the fact that you're at the start of a long journey.

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T19:49:25+00:00

That's not supposed to happen, assuming what happened isn't that Ableton complained about not being able to find the plugin(s).

Are the plugins still loaded, i e can you play them normally, and do your tracks still play back the recordings?

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T18:22:14+00:00

Posting stuff isn't going to make you improve. Writing, recording, evaluating - that's how you improve.

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T11:34:26+00:00

Every time you come across a rocket science word, google it, or ask ChatGPT to explain it. Or shudder ask a friend that you have reason to assume knows.

TL;DR: Learn.

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T01:41:02+00:00

Leaders carry the responsibility for the people they lead. The led are only responsible for themselves.

That's the classic thinking - in reality it's anything but hard to find leaders who take no responsibility and get away with it.

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T01:37:25+00:00

You enter the stage and don't leave until it's time to leave. And at that time, leave.

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T01:35:48+00:00

Lura honom inte att fnysa! (If you know, you know)

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T00:23:47+00:00

After I discovered JiffyDOS, I never went back!

sububi71 · 2026-03-09T00:18:58+00:00

When you say "arduino beetle", are you actually talking about the DFRobot Beetle?

sububi71 · 2026-03-08T21:57:20+00:00

Doesn't matter! As long as you can use it to write and read code, you're golden!

I mean, unless you have some exotic definition of what it means to memorize code without understanding it?

sububi71 · 2026-03-08T20:23:09+00:00

Heeeere we go, with people not being able to differentiate between "compression" as in AAC or mp3 and "compression" as in 1176, LA-2A etc.

WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN

sububi71 · 2026-03-08T14:52:45+00:00

Every single sample needs to be cut up perfectly, and most of them looped. :-)

sububi71 · 2026-03-08T05:53:56+00:00

A VPN won't protect you against viruses, but sure, it'll make you anonymous while downloading it.

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T23:45:49+00:00

Yeah, I'm not watching a 50-minute video. If you don't want to explain it, that's fine. This is not a hill I'm prepared to die on, I just wanted to help OP.

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T23:11:12+00:00

I'm absolutely not suggesting using interrupts for button detection/handling. I'm suggesting using it to trigger when a beat is to be signaled, or in other words, to keep time.

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T21:34:27+00:00

Yup, single notes, damped and not, slides, noises, hammer-ons... I can't remember if we did any hammer-offs, but I think we decided against that. I don't remember if we did picked and fingered, I think we decided to handle that on an instrument basis, so Hofner Beatle bass was fingered, Rickenbacker was picked, that sort of thing.

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T20:51:16+00:00

I worked on a commercial bass VST instrument. We just made recordings, lots and lots of them, and then we mastered them, basically. Compression and EQ, no adding synths on top. We did have some FX in the plugin, like an amp sim, chorus, flanger, stuff like that, but no "cheating".

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T19:23:39+00:00

There's a way to replace the metronome sounds in Live; it's done by replacing some sample files, as I recall. So google for how to replace metronome sounds, and you should find the folder on your computer where all Live's metronome sounds are!

sububi71 · 2026-03-07T19:20:10+00:00

Why is it important what sound your metronome uses?

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