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Ableton Live 9 on a Windows7 System with No Network

You may want to do this because force updates can interrupt your music studio work (without warning), and to keep your music secure for your clients. However, apparently, while Ableton can be installed on Windows7 without a network (using a USB stick to transfer info and files from the Win7 to a computer with internet where you log into your Ableton account, and back to the Win7 system, you might need some extra stuff for your audio interface. For a Focusrite 2i2, see: https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/208813065-Scarlett-2nd-Gen-USB-Driver-will-not-install-on-my-Windows-7-machine When you install that update, you can uninstall your Focusrite driver, then reinstall it. This worked at least for me. Moving ALL Ableton files from one computer to another  https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/5kjkcq/moving_all_ableton_files_from_one_computer_to/

Some legal free streaming sites 2018

gomovies: https://gomovies.to/ solarmoviez: https://solarmoviez.to/ kingmovies: https://kingmovies.to/ cafemovie: http://cafemovie.me/ watchfree: http://www.watchfree.to/ putlocker (new): http://putlocker.io/ vumoo: http://vumoo.li/ Yes, these sites have popup ads. Yes, ads are how they stay in business with server costs, hosting, and development.

A Linux Computer with a DAW

Also: https://computerconcerns.blogspot.ca/2017/05/things-i-do-when-i-install-linux.html Download Tracktion6 from the website, using an account based on your email (dfp). Install it with r-click installer. Jack sudo apt-get install jack-tools ant openjdk-6-jdk fftw3 qjackctl and sudo apt-get install qjackctrl (might need some more stuff, like a repo or something, in order to do these 2?) Note: when you close Jack, and you still don't get system audio you can  sudo killall -9 jackdbus and you can pulseaudio and update and pulseaudio again. This worked for me. Cadence (to fix Jack not letting other things play sound)  sudo apt-get install candence  (you might need to add the repository first) This uses Jack, but doesn't need Qjackctl (which seems to do a similar thing to Candence. With Candence, you can "start" and it starts Jack (and cuts out YouTube) so Tracktion has sound. Audacity sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity sudo apt...

Tracktion, a non-free Linux (cross-platform actually) DAW for music

Tutorials:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-DwzJmpgU

Ardour 4, a free Linux DAW for music

After reviewing a lot of Linux options (none as good as continuing to use Ableton, but Ableton is lame and doesn't work on Linux), I am going to give Ardour4 a shot. So here goes. I will want to A) create a drum sequence using midi; B) record 2 audio tracks (guitar and mic) at once using a Focusrite USB interface, C) add a bass/synth line with midi using a sample (the same way you do in Ableton with the Simpler instrument plugin, and D) play a midi synth (the same way you do with Operator in Ableton). PROBLEMS with Ardour: - Can't play YouTube or other things, at least on my machine, because it doesn't play nice with Jack. You have to be running Jack to get sound out of Ardour. - Currently, can't even make Ardour and Jack run at the same time. Quitting this project. A) Creating a drum sequence using midi I plug in a Korg nonPAD2 to use as a midi instrument to play my drum pattern.

Linux commands and hotkeys

Paste as plain text: ctrl-shift-V (11.04 and higher Ubuntu) open disk usage analyzer: baobab sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove

Linux music making

Ableton doesn't work on Linux. There are a few cases where people did get it to work, but also lots where they couldn't. Not sure about how plugins / instruments / etc would work moving forward. Do you think you can make it work on your system? Linux doesn't have any fully-rounded DAWs free. Also, they all use an external program called "Jack" or QJackctl" that handles the audio on Linux. I don't know why this is required. When you use any of these programs, Jack is started, which freezes other audio and programs (YouTube freezes), at least on my computer. Apparently, this can be fixed, but how? Ardour has no drumracks. You can only record audio tracks. You can't assign samples to keys and record/program a drum sequence to play your audio over. LMMS (I forget what was wrong with it) A lot of the other Linux programs didn't work right when I tried them out, for various reasons:  Bitwig, Tracktion, Radium. Seq24 controls: - hold right...