Yeah, Ableton is amazing in many ways, but I agree that they need to implement some basic functions like mono that you mention. I have recently moved over from Studio One to Ableton and got really surprised that it seems like realtime mixdown does not exist in Ableton. Or maybe I have missed something.
What exactly do you mean?
A mixdown/bounce in real time, so you can for example use Analog Heat when you bounce your mix.
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Youâd need to use the External Audio Effects device for realtime rendering. 
With the External Audio Effects device or the External Instrument device on a track, live renders in realtime.
External Audio Effects device also works on the master track or in return tracks btw.
With External Audio Effects device in the master track, you could render your whole mix going through Analog Heat (or a bus compressor or smt similar).
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I had this problem back with my piece of crap Scarlett 2i2 (gen1) on modern windows OS (worked fine back on my ancient mac). Would work 5-10 min and crap out, no audio in/out until re-plugging it in. Drove me crazy, Iâd lose half of guitar and vocal and live synth takes when that happened. I had almost forgotten⌠I got so fed up I bought a MOTU M4 and life has been fine ever since. It is on when the computer is on, and Ableton never doesnât see it, and Iâve saved it into my default template, so there is nothing to do.
My advice: Ditch the Scarlett. If your is like mine was, it is a piece of crap.
Record arm one track with a source of another trackâs post FX, and click record to bounce. You can arm more than one with diff sources too and bounce several at the same time even. Or did you mean something else?
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Did you set it in your default template?
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Yeah super annoying⌠I wish there was some kind of priority list ⌠e.g.
- Main Audio interface â always use when available
- Digitakt / Digitone â always available use this when 1) not available
- Macbook Loudspeaker or Headphones when 1)/2) not available
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Thanks for the tip man, I appreciate it! Ableton has its own way of doing things for good and bad. I think it would be simpler to just ad a realtime mixdown option to the export page.
Add utility choose left or right channel voila mono only showing left right as waveform after recording. Check that with stereo metering tool or with m/s eq cut all the side and listen no difference to the soundđ
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What I meant was that I want a realtime mixdown/bounce option on the export page so I can bounce the whole mix in realtime with one button press.
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Record arm a track, and set input to âMaster-Post Mixerâ and record the master realtime to bounce thru your outboard fx via âExternal Audio Effectsâ plugin(s) on your master. This sounds like what youâre talking about, and is a tiny variation of my previous post.
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For instance, if you wanted to send your mix through a compressor, saturator, tube magic unit or smt like that, rendering in realtime through the hardware is faster then to export as wav, import into a new set etc.
Oh, I donât have this problem, it doesnât disconnect by itself, but even taking into account all bad aspects of Scarlet, Ableton could always just use âsysem sound in/out deviceâ. Like when I plug scarlett into laptop sound switches from built-in audio to scarlett on OS level and if I unplug scarlett sound is back on built-in audio for music, browser and any other apps except of Ableton, but when you unplug scarlet Ableton says there is no audio device and when you plug it back it doesnât help, you have to connect it in settings by hand. So if they can track disconnection, why canât they track connection?
Interesting. I never want my system sounds going to my interface when Iâm using my DAW. In my experience interfaces have better stability and lower latency possibilities when the DAW is the exclusive user of the interface. So this is actually the opposite of what I always use â system sounds to normal pc out, DAW exclusive on the interface⌠whether its the MOTU or the Heat or whatever Iâm using.
Anyway, this is off-topic for Live 11, so Iâll say no more in this thread.
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Ok time to stop checking forums and go play, Like many other here who were interested, I just got into the beta.
Playing with the beta now. Powerful.
I make techno and love randomization. This update is nice.
Sure, there are Max devices that can do similar tasks but itâs nice to be intentional and stay within the clip to make things happen, randomly.
Great update.
EDIT: Iâm going to go ahead and dare to say their randomization is quite musical
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Iâve heard Live 11 likes to randomizeâŚ
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Whatâs going on here? Are you able to control live from Javascript/over HTTP or something?