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

just as a reminder. If you're looking for another great free resource to

learn how to use able to live then head to

the YouTube channel for from Studio to Stage hit

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know that you're watching and let me know what your favorite resource for

able to live is let's say free. What is

your favorite free resource or able to live we get

enough of those? Maybe we'll come back and do a part to

Episode for this. Thanks so much for watching. Thanks so much for listening.

Thanks for being a part of the community. Hope you have a fantastic week. You

matter you're an awesome person you rock. See you

next week. Take care everybody.