On today's episode of behind the spacebar. I want to share five of my favorite resources for able to live that are completely free. Behind the spacebar. This is the podcast. This is the video podcast of you're watching on YouTube for folks that use able to live on stage playback text Musicians music directors, really anyone that performs on stage with able to live. This is your first time welcome. If this is your second third fourth, whatever time then walking back
so glad you're here today. Today's episode is gonna be really Finance gonna cost you zero, right? Those are some of the best episodes. So those are some of my favorite episodes to record because they're great for your resources and again costs you absolutely nothing. So let's dive in and let's get started this number one resources. Probably my favorite which
is why it's number one, right? It's a absolute essential utility that I use when I am on a gig when I get hired by someone to come in and set up like a midi routing scenario for them. They say Hey will we want you to set up I connectivity rig we want you to set up able to live to control and configure Pro Presenter. Whatever it is. This tool has to be on every computer that I touch. This is mini monitor.
Again, completely free. Here's how this works. Let me actually open this up on my computer so you can see what you can see and do with this is you can basically spy on outputs. You can spy on inputs to see where midi is coming from one computer to the next now, here's how I practically use this again. I install this on every computer every machine that I'm working on and I basically go. Okay. Ableton is trying to talk to resolume to send midi over admittee Network. It's not working. What do
I do? Well, I go to my resident computer. I open mini monitor. Is it even seen many from able to live? If no, then I go back to the Ableton machine because I know it's something there or it's something between the connection between those two machines. This is gonna help you figure out what the problem is and solve it way faster than if you're just guessing I just get so frustrated when I'm on gigs and
people are just guessing as to what the solution is. This is one of those analytical tools that will help you really quickly solve and find a solution, which is great. Okay, let's talk about number two free resource. This is a little self-ind. And this is my free tracks template for Ableton Live. So from Studio stage com slash template, so you can go to download this if you're running tracks and able to live and you're not working from a template you're wasting time. I hate to tell you you're
wasting time you're redoing work. I have a basic track symbol and advanced tracks template that you can buy and you can purchase but I want you to download my free tracks template guess how much it costs. It's completely free. It's available for able to live 9 Ableton Live 10 able to live 11. It works in intro standard and sweet and it also works on PC or Mac. It just sits some updates to solve some issues that folks on PC. We're having it's always the folks on PC right just buy Mac and you
won't have issues. I promise you. Well, you'll have issues but at least not with your computer. Okay number three. So yes, please download my template number three one just in general the figure 53 Studio Projects site is incredible, but particularly on here. I want to point out lock step is a really cool utility that will take incoming time.
Code and convert it to MTC timecode. If you can only send a timecode over an audio signal that's your only way to send simply timecode and LTC but you need MTC and you can't set up midi. This is a really cool solution to turn that around now, I don't have time to explain this but I have set
up. Hypothetically. Well, I've actually set it up. It's just unfortunately didn't work but there's a hypothetical scenario where you could send audio that's embedded on an audio file pull that off that audio file and sync to other gear using A LTC file you could also do this with midi and convert and turn that audio around to MIDI. I'm even confused talking about it, but just trust me head over to figure 53 site their Studio site download lockstep. It's completely free and it generates
many time code for anything. You send it A LTC file and it generates midi time code, which is really really great. Okay. I've got a Bonus pick for you here. If you want a free resource that's gonna help you learn to use able to live then head to the from City of stage YouTube. Hit the Subscribe button and enable the Bell icon. In fact, maybe you're already watching this on YouTube. If so, hit that subscribe
button and able to Bell icon and let's keep going. Okay number four resource again has to do with timecode has to do with sync stuff is live MTC from showsync now I should mention. I should preface this by saying this does require Max for live. So you've got to have able to live sweet you've got to purchase Max or live is like a standalone thing. But either way if you have either of these this is such an incredible incredible tool
live MTC. Well, essentially generate MTC many time code from able to live from you're able to live session using this little Max for live device. And then this like bridge I think they call it. Yeah MTC bridge that basically converts the the transport
position of where you are. So I'm at you know measure one beat to eighth note 3, whatever it is it translates that translate that into midi time code information and this is super powerful in your if you're in a automation scenario if you're working with the software that will receive And accept many timecode and you're in a scenario where you can set up many timecode. This is such a great solution. It's completely free. I I don't understand how so show sync offers this for
free, but they do and it's really really incredible. So if you're looking to send many timecode from Ableton Live then please check out live MTC again completely for free. Okay Final Solution here again. I'm gonna be self indulgent one more time. We're gonna stick with this automation theme, we've got a good flow here to wrap up this episode again. This is a shorter episode, but I'm giving you a lot of free resources here. So the final thing here is
my free time code template. You can head it from CDs stage com slash template our excuse me for Studio stage.com slash timecode. So many free resources. In fact just headed from csh.com slash for you to get all the resources, but for today, I want to promote from Studio to stage.com slash timecode if you want to use timecode in Ableton Live LTC time code, then you should head to from csh.com/time code download this free template. Here's what you get you get time code at 23.
9824-25-29.97 29.97 drop frame take a deep breath or still not done 30 30 drop frame all the frame rates that included and you get an hour of time code starting at hour one in each of those files. So you get a zip file with seven one hour long 48k 16 bit wave file. So if you're using LTC in any performance timecode, simply LTC in any performance had it from Studio sage.com slash timecode to download this free timecode file. And again
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