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Export to Ableton.............feature or not?
Do you use it?
What is your experience?
Any pointers for people who haven't tried it?
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nah I'm on iOS to get away from desktop daws. Too much filler and too many distractions for me. So I don't use it but I can see how if you love Ableton and use iOS just to come up with ideas and tinker around, it would be pretty nifty to make up a cool drum track in say, Triq traq and then open it in your favorite daw all ready to go. So I'm sure it's definitely a selling point for such folks.
Yes! Use Gadget Ableton export on nearly every project. In Gadget, clips are exported as audio clips and when you open the exported project in Live the clips load into session view. Haven't tried Elastic Drums export but plan to.
Hell yes. I export to Dropbox and just drag and drop the files directly to ableton when I'm at home. Makes my iPad less of a toy in my workflow when working on more complex projects. Patterning gadget and blocs are just amazing in this regard. Ableton is also excellent because you can just smash projects together by dragging bits from other projects directly into your existing one.
Patterning is especially nice in how it exports each pattern as a scene with each instrument in it's own track, so you can really hit the ground running. Elastic gives you only one scene, with each track having one long clip for the duration, which is a pain to disassemble if you had a large song going. Beyond that, my only complaint is that more apps haven't announced support for it yet. Hopefully, there will be more onboard at the end of the month.
It's a great feature, I love it. Makes taking things into Live for deeper arranging so much easier.
Agree with all the above, will be better once Gadget for Mac drops with the Vst's integrated as part of the export
Hi!
I'm also only iOS user but I saw the potential on Ableton export feature for some apps (blocswave, live loopers in general...) but also Ableton export import could be useful to some apps (like modstep, launchpad, looptunes...) as "packed project" from app to app.
I can do mostly with Blocs/Launchpad but my workflow is far from "professional" in usual terms due I record my instrumental parts at once and the record vocals on top with garageband. Export to garageband (or import from Ableton export in garageband) will be great too...
This is the first feature i look for now.
Any app with ableton export is 50 % sold to me instantly
So, iz ios app to dropbox to Ableton the most efficient means for xport?
@RustiK Airdrop is best, if both devices have bluetooth. Works over wifi more quickly, if available. Dropbox is next option.
Looptunes has it. It makes for a really nice scratchpad, then export it to Ableton, do more fine tuning etc.
@sonicreef I miss it since I still not "saved" nothing and now I see the Ableton export button. Cool feature that makes me like more and more the app.
Could be possible to add import from another app "Ableton export" feature?
Let me explain... Let's imagine I make a session with GTL and hit "Ableton export" (share?) then with import "Ableton export" charge the session into Looptunes like Blocs wave does with Launchpad... it could be possible take the Ableton export API for this kind of sharing projects?
I doubt Ableton has exposed any part of that in the SDK— a real Pandora's box there, but I like the idea.
@RustiK . Dropbox here. I'm on PC
Would love to see something like this.
Don't think there's anything particularly special about "Ableton export". It's a set of trimmed wave files and a project file that references them. The key is that we're talking about a single target file format for developers. Whereas blocs, launchpad, looptunes, GTL all have their own format.
There are other open source multi-file formats that are known to be, built to be, parsable. The likelihood of any of those gaining traction seems incredibly slim though.
I think what dubby is asking is "is the ALS file something that independent developers could parse"? I've no idea as I've never tried to open one outside of Ableton but it's probably not something crazy complicated.
I just checked, it's some binary format, possibly encrypted. In other words, not easily readable.
The Looptunes session format is readable, and extendable to also do midi sequences. I'd be happy to help if other app devs want to adopt it.
Thanks for checking @sonicreef. Oh well.
Even without a project file, a zip of wavs is portable. Then it would be up to the opening app to decide what to do with them. That could get complicated but for lots of apps I imaging the default use case is probably pretty straight forward (though not to suggest that means it would be easy to implement). I'm thinking like: looping apps == loops slot/track per wave, DAWs==track per wave, Drum apps==drum kit sample(track) per wave...
Details of the Ableton export zip file:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/206905710