Anyway to turn off/on link service without menu diving in the prime deck?
And how are you beat syncing? For me it seems like it’s always off by 1/8 to sync measure on my loopstation. And it seems like I have to fight Traktor to drop in a track on beat and measure.
Yeah, having an on/off switch within the “Control Center Menu” would be ideal. Menu diving to turn Ableton Link on or off is not ideal. I guess one of us should make a feature request for that.
Otherwise, I’ve been LOVING Ableton Link…been using it with Grooverider GR-16, Patterning 2, Koala Sampler, and Launchpad iOS apps, as well as with Ableton Live. It’s everything I hoped it would be!!
Now that we have Ableton Link support, I am going to buy an Akai Force.
Ok, basically Abelton Link is analogous to a 1,2,3,4 metronome. When I start the first track on the master deck I have to line it up with the link’s beat counter.
Sadly its not working for me at all and weirdly I seem to have the opposite problem somehow
Im using 2 6000s and a Xone 96 and want to sync some external pedal type effects units (Eventide H9 and Strymon Nightsky, which I both really would recommend by the way) via Ableton Link and MIDI
It should work like this:
SC6000 Tempo –> Ableton Tempo → MIDI over USB → Pedals…
But somehow Ableton is always the “master” (from which I understand there shouldn’t be one in Ableton link) regardless of which link is started first etc. Pressing master buttons on the players doesn’t change a thing…
Any advice?
According to the description of Ableton link at Ableton website, the device/software that is the longest in session is the link. After exiting the session another “oldest” takes over.
Yeah, I already read that, so that was my understanding as well. Somehow its not working that way for me though.
I gotta say I have tried to use it via my home WiFi just for testing purposes, but already ordered myself a switch so I can try it again with some network cables.
Why would you think there is a lot of delay, Ableton Link is normally quite low latency and its output of that tempo via MIDI via USB shouldn’t add much latency either…
Regarding the translation: I have no reason to believe that it wouldn’t work, since Ableton does it for some time now…but I haven’t tested further yet, since Link wouldn’t work as I want it to.
I gave it another go today, but couldn’t get it to work
As soon as I activate Ableton link on the player with track(s) running (prior ro the Macbook obv) the Sync and Master functionality is all deactivated – even within 2 layers of the same deck (verified by the stacked waveform view).
I wonder if the network cable to connect the 2 players for Denon DJ Link maybe messes things up?!
Router is about 2m and one wall from me, so it isn’t the problem for sure
Would certainly be appreciated ^^
I assume doing this with basically any laptop is better?! Im using a MacBook Pro 15" 2012 core i7. Still works quite well for most stuff.
Hm interesting. Im gonna need some more testing that’s for sure.
I realise this thread is old but did you ever get this working?
I use 2 x SC6000m’s with an analogue rotary mixer and would love to tempo sync some FX pedals (Zen Delay and Strymon NS) via midi. I have read that the SC6000m outputs midi messages on the rear USB (usb2) port so i was wondering if i could somehow connect those players directly to the pedals via USB to Midi cable?
Alternatively would the Link to Midi app work? i.e Sc6000m’s > Ableton Link via Wifi > Link to Midi app on phone in same network > USBC to Midi Cables > FX Pedals ???