Comments on: LiveAPI.org: New Open-Source, Unofficial SDK in Python Lets You Hack Ableton Live

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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:51:10 +0000

[...] was a co-creator of the Unofficial Ableton Live API (which now lives on Google Code if you’ve been wondering where to find updates on that) [...]

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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:20:17 +0000

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By: julien

julien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:02:43 +0000

as wildo, i’m looking for information about liveapi website.

I would like to create some script between live & processing (processing.org)

By: Wildo

Wildo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:46:54 +0000

LiveApi.org website is down since 2 weeks now. Any body has feedback about the liveAPI project recently?

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:36:43 +0000

Dj McManus, please continue to bump into the metaphorical sliding glass door while I sip my cocktail and laugh. :)

I took the time to describe my particular approach to Live DJing (along with lots of “biased” commentary) on my myspace blog.

Regardless of my personal opinions, I invite you to experiment, and discover ways of working that suit your personal approach. The LiveAPI can only make more personalized approaches more feasible.

Good luck!

By: DJ McManus

DJ McManus — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:14:17 +0000

I’ve found Deckadance to be very unstable. The track view window which shows the entire track as a whole doesn’t offer adequate detail compared to the corresponding windows in Traktor, or even Virtual DJ.

Maybe if you could run two instances of Live on the same machine and link them together?

That might be an easy enough hack which would solve things for alot of users AND bring my post back to the post which generated this thread AND it will drive Gustavo crazy.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:26:31 +0000

@DJ McManus: That’s about as frequently asked a question as Live gets. I don’t think there is a solution for *viewing*. What you’re doing is probably your best bet. The other alternative now will be loading something like Deckadance as a plug-in, and focusing on Live for doing less traditional things, though I know that’s a poor replacement.

Even if you created a plug-in for display, Live doesn’t display more than one plug-in view at once.

By: DJ McManus

DJ McManus — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:13:24 +0000

Gustavo … uhhh … good luck with all that.

Anyways, I’d love to see two waveform windows in Live at the same time. That would be an ideal situation for the way that I want to use it.

If anyone has any hacks, hints, or suggestions please let me know. I’ve been using it for a couple years and often use hotkeys to switch between two clip views. I’d love to have two there in tandem.

Please, no condescending rants or unsolicited bios.

By: mäandern at ad|ae|qu|at

mäandern at ad|ae|qu|at — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:30:46 +0000

[...] 1) neueste top-meldung in der elektromusik-szene (via CDM): für die beliebte software “ableton live” hat sich ein software-hook für die integration völlig neuer, selbst programmierter codeteile aufgetan. via “python” klinkt man sich in “live” ein, zahlreiche nun erstmals dokumentierte anfragen an und antworten von “live” werden möglich (API=Application Programming Interface): [...]

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:45:25 +0000

@Gustavo: You’re right, but to me this is all the more reason that Ableton should add the ability to change overall time signature quantization in scenes, just as scenes can change master tempo. The fact is that clips are not dependent on time signature, that you’re really just adjusting the grid of the overall program — all the more reason to be able to change that via some mechanism other than mousing over to a number box and changing it manually. Scenes could do this without disrupting the rest of the program.

I’ll be interested to see whether there’s a kludge in the meantime using Python.

Note, though, to everyone else, that you in fact can mix clips of different time signatures, and that the Arrange view is perfectly capable of doing mixed time sigs; for some reason, Ableton got the reputation that it couldn’t — not true.