Comments on: Vitamin L: Ableton Live Keyboard, Mouse Shortcuts on XP

By: axiom

axiom — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:33:37 +0000

just been moving over from cubase sx 3 to live and it was one of the features i couldnt believe hadnt been implemented into live…glad this solves the problem

By: » Ableton Live Shortcuts Pack

» Ableton Live Shortcuts Pack — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:54:45 +0000

[...] downloading now so I warn you that I havn’t tried it yet. On the basis of a good CDM review and the either it works or doesn’t work nature of the application, I’m feeling [...]

By: tonearm

tonearm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:28:40 +0000

mouse wheel should zoom in/out or scroll through tracks, etc. — depending on the context. I am monitoring this thread on Ableton forums — http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=89115 if you want to report bugs, etc.

By: tekkaz

tekkaz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:10:20 +0000

ok it is me being thick
it all seems to work now

(tho i cant see anythin new happenin with the mouse wheel)

i think i was expectin to see new context menus and stuff to appear when i right click

but yah
this is cool anyway - nice one :)

By: tekkaz

tekkaz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:04:34 +0000

yeah

i think i know what it is

i use a laptop with 2 monitors - and my second monitor (not the laptop one) is my primary display as its alot bigger..

cause of this i use a usb keyboard connected to my lappy .. i think it is this - as when i use the keyboard on the laptop those shortcuts seem to work

By: tonearm

tonearm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:01:11 +0000

hmmm. are you saying that the shortcuts don’t work for you?

By: tekkaz

tekkaz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:51:04 +0000

ok i am really thick
i’ve downloaded the vitimin l stuff and ran the exe and the little L is in the corner - then i open live 7

and nothing happens

do i need something else installed?
or just dont i get it :|

By: godprobe

godprobe — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:02:12 +0000

I’ve only gone through the first set of commands so far, but the Alt-# and Alt-F# functionality alone is one of the things I’d always wanted in Live. Die, mouse, die! :)

I love the integrated help and the awesome integration and super-low visibility.

Tried going through the Live manual once to pull out and comprehend all the shortcuts and label my keyboard appropriately but so much of it is context-sensitive and there are still other commands that aren’t even documented… makes it tough.

By: ERS

ERS — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:52:50 +0000

I never thought the day would come where I would be sad I was making music on a Mac instead of a PC, but the last couple of months of free PC software that has been on CDM almost has me there…

By: tonearm

tonearm — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:42:46 +0000

Thanks for posting about this, Peter.

There is no installation per se — you simply unzip a folder and run vitaminl.exe along with Live. If you want to stop using it, just quit Vitamin L (or you can temporarily suspend it by double-clicking the tray icon).

See the detailed instructions at
http://tonearm.net/musictools/vitaminl_readme_online.html