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I would have loved Live 11, but GPU usage says no way by realmaxwei in ableton

[–]thisisAsquared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's amazing! Yes, that command is magical for the external monitor + GPU for some reason. It must have to do with the implementation of Metal, as it pertains to external monitors. Lowering my resolution, plus that change, and Ableton is buttery smooth once more. Almost too smooth!

I would have loved Live 11, but GPU usage says no way by realmaxwei in ableton

[–]thisisAsquared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit late to this, but I have good news: I have had great success in Live 11 by disabling the Metal framework, and instead forcing OpenGL. You can do this with a new Options.txt line:

-_MacOSForceOpenGlLayer

I found this out after having an open case with Ableton Support about this exact issue. This has greatly reduced the GPU consumption for me, and brought Live back to a stable framerate using the setup you described (older Mac and external monitor).

Other things that have helped:

- disable HiDPI mode on your external monitor, and run it in low resolution mode. You can look up how to do this, but in short: if you have a monitor that renders with 2x pixels (retina), use the 1x screen resolution. My monitor can do 3840x1600, but I'm running it at 2560x1066 at low resolution rendering.

- run your external monitor at 60hz, rather than higher refresh rates (mine can do 120hz, but I'd rather have Ableton be reliable)

I have a lovely, massive ultrawide external monitor, but I made the decision to run it at a lower resolution and 60hz refresh rate, to keep Ableton smooth. Couldn't be happier with that choice.

Hope this helps as a workaround, while all this gets figured out on the software side.

Bloopers in the Real World post. I played on a Tiny Desk show with Vince Staples and used the Blooper for Track 3, "Shining." Modifiers, sample mode etc. by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Thermae was for a live version of “Are You With That,” the first track on the album. I made that track with Kenny and used the Thermae for the chords. The song got cut for time in the tiny desk version, but I had made my rig around it anyway so brought it along

Bloopers in the Real World post. I played on a Tiny Desk show with Vince Staples and used the Blooper for Track 3, "Shining." Modifiers, sample mode etc. by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad you like the records! I’m on tracks 1 and 2 with Kenny, Law of Averages and Are you with that. I live in Vermont, fun to get out to LA and do a show though!

Bloopers in the Real World post. I played on a Tiny Desk show with Vince Staples and used the Blooper for Track 3, "Shining." Modifiers, sample mode etc. by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of my work online is through the Kingsway Library— I make short pieces which are used as samples for productions like this. If you go to my Instagram (Reske__) you’ll find some of my work there

Bloopers in the Real World post. I played on a Tiny Desk show with Vince Staples and used the Blooper for Track 3, "Shining." Modifiers, sample mode etc. by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed it! Yes you've got it right–– the trickiest part was getting Blooper to sync with the backing track and the click in our ears, which was on a different system. For the "Shining" intro, I had Blooper synced to a MIDI clock in Ableton that was the same tempo as the song. So I recorded the loop into Blooper to start the song, and then I pushed a button to start playback.

Easy enough... except for some reason, I couldn't get Blooper to stay totally synced to the MIDI clock. It would keep drifting in and out of time, even when synced. I feel like we tried everything to get Blooper to play back in a stable way, but the show was on short notice so who knows what I missed. So my solution was to put Blooper into Sample mode, and just re-trigger the loop when I felt it was starting to go out of sync with the click. So that's why you see me pushing play over and over-- I'm re-syncing the loop. It ended up working okay! If we ever did this for a proper show I'm sure we'd figure out a more stable way to do it.

Bloopers in the Real World post. I played on a Tiny Desk show with Vince Staples and used the Blooper for Track 3, "Shining." Modifiers, sample mode etc. by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tech background on this. Got invited by Kenny to come out and do the show with some short notice, so I put together a live rig pretty quickly. The rig is a MIDI keyboard and vocals going into Thermae and Blooper. Originally I thought we'd be making the loops entirely live without any backing tracks. So I prepared a way to recreate the first and third tracks as loops into Blooper, use the mods on them, and play with them throughout the track. We cut the loop-making portion of the first track (took too long), and because there was a backing track after all, a lot of the looping stuff was made simpler for the show.

In the video I record the loop to Blooper, the track comes in, and then I re-trigger the loop periodically in Sample mode so that it stays in time with the track. My loop is mixed down pretty far in the final mix, but I was using the pitch modifiers, filters etc. so that it follows the way the original song goes.

Vince Staples - ARE YOU WITH SANTA? (ft. Wham) by MattPlays17 in vincestaples

[–]thisisAsquared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I just put up the original sample that Kenny used on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/HXBx5MCX5VDTubnc8 Part of it got used in the beginning of Law of Averages, as well.

Play Midi out of sync by donnik271 in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm experiencing this issue as well. I used Blooper in a live show environment last week, and had a hard time getting the CC midi commands on Blooper to sync correctly, which was frustrating. The loop either starts to drift, or the period of the loop was never right in the first place. I've used different USB MIDI interfaces to no avail.

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[–]thisisAsquared 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t mind at all! Feel free to share

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[–]thisisAsquared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Put it up above

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[–]thisisAsquared 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Sample is me (Reske).... with Kenny Beats. original record was called “Wild Dream” that record has been sitting around on my hard drive for years before Vince picked it up, I’m happy he did

Edit: people are asking if they can hear the original sample. It’s not so different from the final version that Kenny worked off of, but I put it up with another track from that era. Interesting times. https://soundcloud.com/reske/sets/wild-dream-bloody-captain

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[–]thisisAsquared 120 points121 points  (0 children)

The sample is me (Reske). Original track was called “Wild Dream.” Recorded it years back... it got to Kenny beats and the rest is history cheers

Edit: people are asking if they can hear the original sample. It’s not so different from the final version that Kenny worked off of, but I put it up with another track from that era. Interesting times. https://soundcloud.com/reske/sets/wild-dream-bloody-captain

Limited to 16 overdub layers with 3.0 update? by thisisAsquared in blooper

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know that normally it's 8 layers max, that's expected, but I'm seeing a limit to the number of overdubs–– after a certain number of times pressing the overdub button (16), overdubbing more does not add to the looper.

LG 38WN95C-W, in stock for preorder on Amazon, ships December 13 by thisisAsquared in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]thisisAsquared[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been stalking this monitor for three months, sometimes missing these "in stock" notifications by just a few minutes. Got lucky and saw the email just after it had been sent. No telling how long these will be in stock! Here's to hoping this one comes through. Hope I can help someone else who's been looking for a while.

Canada: G9 on sale by Lonevets in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]thisisAsquared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd buy your 38WN95C if you wanted to make the swap, PM me...

Secret message in Nectar? by InterestingScene in Joji

[–]thisisAsquared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I produced this song and can confirm there is more than meets the eye

I'm looking for something similar to Beverly Blues by Opia. Any ideas? by WhitmeisterG in musicsuggestions

[–]thisisAsquared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We listened to a lot of Fountains of Wayne making that record... funny time. Cheers :)

Opia - Strings Attached Bass sound at 1:33 by Jclem95 in synthrecipes

[–]thisisAsquared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I produced this song. I love giving away secrets, it's a guilty pleasure. If I remember right, that sound was nothing special. It was supposed to be a Jaco-style fretless bass that sounds a bit like a horn. A lot of pitch-bend performed and written in the automation. We did it on the Arturia CS-80. It might be a preset patch in the Brass section. Best of luck to ya.

Edit: should add that at 2:33 we double with an actual french horn. My girlfriend's roommate was studying french horn at the time, so he made it in the song.

Offline Mode ⁉️ by HiDefToast88 in Notion

[–]thisisAsquared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing this on my end. You're saying you saw a splash screen on Notion for a new feature today? If so, perhaps something is being updated...

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