Integration with Ableton Live

[molec]

Excuse me if this has been asked before. I have searched the internet and found a similar discussion and what appeared to be the correct answer but when I tried out their solution, it didn't work, so I have come here direct to these forums instead. I have also searched the Audacity forums but to no avail.

I am using Ableton Live 7 and have set Audacity to be my sample editor. This works perfectly well up to a point. The sample loads up inside Audacity ready for editing but when I save (export) the sample, Ableton does not pick it up and I get the "Sample offline" message where the audio should be.

Am I doing something wrong, or do the two programs not work together as I am expecting them to?

I could have put this in the feature suggestions forum as it appears to be a feature many people would like but that would be like spamming, so I hope someone here can give me a happy answer.

[kozikowski]

what appeared to be the correct answer

What was the correct answer?

have set Audacity to be my sample editor.

It would take a week to dig through the Abelton promotional works. What does Abelton say it needs or is expecting?
Koz

[molec]

It's a fairly easy workaround, you just have to relocate the edited clip from Ableton and reload it to the correct place in your project, however, it's a few more button clicks than is absolutely necessary.

Ableton has some excellent workflow features, so it would be great were Audacity to work with it in a similar fashion.

[kozikowski]

That wasn't the question. What is Abelton expecting? My guess is Audacity is producing the wrong format and Abelton is using its import conversion process to convert it. But to what?

Koz

[steve]

I have searched the internet and found a similar discussion and what appeared to be the correct answer but when I tried out their solution, it didn't work,

You will need to tell us about that. What are you trying to do with Audacity and what is the problem?

[Gale Andrews]

I have searched the internet and found a similar discussion and what appeared to be the correct answer but when I tried out their solution, it didn't work,

You will need to tell us about that. What are you trying to do with Audacity and what is the problem?

I am guessing you are trying to use Audacity as an external editor for Ableton, is that so?

When you try to export the sample from Audacity is the problem merely that the "Export File" dialogue opens somewhere else than where Audacity imported the file from - that is, if you change the export directory to where the file came from, does Ableton see the modified sample? Is the directory from which Audacity imports the Ableton file one of Ableton's temp directories?

If Audacity already contains a track when you ask Ableton to use Audacity, does Audacity open a new project window?

We have a long outstanding feature request to have a preference to "export to the directory the file came from" but not implemented yet.

If the export directory is not the problem, what else goes wrong?

Gale

[molec]

If the export directory is not the problem, what else goes wrong?

The export directory probably is the problem. There isn't an export setting for WAV's.

[steve]

There isn't an export setting for WAV's.

What settings do you need?

[molec]

There isn't an export setting for WAV's.

What settings do you need?

I need to write over the WAV's i'm editing so that the edited file shows up in Ableton.

Please read my initial post. I believe i've explained everything in good, comprehensible English.

[molec]

How doctored are these forums?

I spent a considerable time answering Gale Andrews on several points, cutting and pasting begin quotes and end quotes, so my answers would appear in between each issue he raised, yet all that's been printed is my last answer and it really doesn't do my entire post justice at all.

Why can't we have multi quotes?