Moving Projects From Live 5.2 To M-powered . . . ?, is this possible ? Options

[fishboisfo]

Hello

I have just begun using ProTools (M-Powered) --and, after using live as my sequencer for years via the arrangement section, I would like to transfer those compositions from Live to Pro Tools for re-mastering purposes. I have NO IDEA how to do this, or even if its possible. I wish it were as simple as drag and drop -- hah hah hah -- , but I'm certain it's not -- due to the error mssg(s) I received the first and only time I tried this.
Any ideas ? Thanks !!

[td3k]

Probably the simplest way, is to solo out each track in Live, and render each entire track from beginning to end. Then import each track individually into PT M-Powered.

...of course there is always rewire (but that is a hassle IMHO)

This post has been edited by td3k: Thu 13 Jul 2006, 15:28

[Vadim Chaly]

Yes, that's the way!

One little thing to remember is that you loose all send FX when you solo a track - well, at least in my 5.0.3 version. So you might want to mute rather than solo if you need your sends.

Cheers!

[zeze]

fishboisfo,
into ProTools MP you should have the ABLETON LIVE Rewire plugin, just create an aux stereo track
in PT and insert this plugin, then open LIVE which will run in Rewire slave mode since it detects
the open PT LIVE plugin; in this way the two programs will be syncrhonised
(start/stop/rewind/forward) at the same bpm, and any audio track running in LIVE will be output in
the PT aux track;
now, to port the LIVE tracks into PT you must create a stereo (or mono) audio track into PT and
assign as its input the bus 1/2, (remember to give the same output bus in the aux track),
put this audio track into record mode and click the record button, (it's best to give a preroll time to
PT so that the two softwares can perfectly sync one another); in this way the audio LIVE track is
recorded into PT;
if you want to record more LIVE tracks at the same time, you have to choose different
output buses into the PT LIVE plugin, and different output buses into the LIVE tracks,
let's say Bus 03 - Bus 04 for the first track, Bus 05 - Bus 06 for the second track and so on;
obviously you must create as many audio tracks as the those you need to record into PT;

the only drawback of using this medhod is that LIVE in rewire mode cannot use the VST/AU
plugins (it can use only its own plugins/instruments), so if you have VST/AU plugs and/.or virtual
instr in your session, to port them into PT you have to 'freeze' them into audio tracks.
hope this helps.

This post has been edited by zeze: Fri 14 Jul 2006, 11:53