In hopes of getting the best setup I upgraded from my mid 2010 MacBook Pro (El Capistan) to the 2016 MacBook Pro 15' with 2.9GHz and 1 TB SSD. Sadly I have been experiencing issues with Live, with frequent audio dropouts, mostly with some midi tracks with (5 minute) long simpler samples. The dropouts are sporadic, making my setup unreliable for live performances. I suspect there's a problem with new MacBooks with Live, Sierra, or my CPU, RAM or SDD is faulty, because my 2010 (El Capistan) didn't have this issue.
Posted on Jun 5, 2017. This is where and how to install user made Ableton Live Skins (.ask) files. Also, a quick note on how to change them in program. MAC: Right click on Ableton app icon show package contents app resources skins. Write, record, edit, and mix your Ableton Live music files on your Mac faster and easier! This ultra-thin form-fitting Ableton Live Keyboard skin includes. By Dani Deahl@danideahl Nov 2, 2017, 8:00am EDT. A range of new skins, all of which Ableton says will make the program easier to read. Are anything to go by, it is crisper than how Live 9 currently looks on my MacBook.
Anyone else experiencing issues using 2016 MacBook Pro with Live 9.7.2?
Hi!Thought I'd post about a project that I've been working on for a few weeks that I thought you lot might like here
I used to use a custom skin with Live 9 and when I upgraded to Live 10 I never bothered changing the skin/theme until recently. I spent a few hours on Google and only really found a small collection of Ableton 10 themes. Looking at videos on YouTube about how to make your own themes, it looked pretty tricky - editing text files with colour values, spending a few hours getting it all to look right.
I thought there must be an easier way of doing it so I set about to make an visual editor for themes. I've got a little background in web development so I started making an online editor where you could take any of the existing Live themes and customise any of the colours by clicking on elements and then quickly changing the colour. This made the process so much quicker, creating themes in a matter of minutes. I kept developing and built a whole site around it, allowing for a whole community to browse, download or create their own themes.
You can customise any theme on the site, making your own remixed version of it! And there's over 190 themes from about 300 members already
It's all completely free to use and would love to hear your feedback