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[Ableton] Repairing Defective ALS Files Manually

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What happened?

  • many avoidable (stupid) situations arise from hectic rush: we for instance accidentally deleted an ableton set (.ALS file extension) from a local NAS server
  • without going too deep into detail: since we don’t have a RAID based NAS we could recover (some parts of) the desired .als file by putting the NAS’ drive into an old PC and restored the found data with UFS/XFS-Explorer (absolute recommendation) to an external USB drive
  • after loading the recovered ALS file, we encountered the corrupt file error from Ableton

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The following article is written by a Mac user, but many (if not all) things should most likely be able to be applied to Windows aswell. Continue reading

[Muzaq] Ableton Live 9 and Push Release On March, 5th

Until March, 5th Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 are available with a 25% rebate! Don’t miss the chance to get Ableton Live or Suite 8 including a free upgrade to Ableton Live or Suite 9 for such a fair price. The boxed version is even more rebated when you buy it via Thomann. So folks enjoy…

[Muzaq] Bitwig Studio Beta: VST Crash Handler

Well, it’s been quite some time now, since Bitwig released a Beta version to selected testers. After Ableton showed us new features for their upcoming release of Ableton Live 9, now Bitwig shows us a new video of their latest development progress in handling VST-plugins.

Now VST Support looks like having become fully integrated with integrated crash protection: when a VST plugin crashs the Bitwig will not crash aswell. Bitwig will instead allow to reload the crashed plugin or even to reload all plugins.

Watch here

Sample Screenshots here

 

 

[Muzaq] Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” Recomposed in Ableton Live

Jim Pavloff from the Ukraine shows us in 10 minutes how to recompose Prodigy’s classic track “Smack My Bitch Up” by just using Ableton Live. This is really awesome.

» Jim Pavloff on Rupert’s MySpace.com
» Jim Pavloff on Discogs.com
» Jim Pavloff on PromoDJ.ru