Export as Audio - what am I doing wrong?

[punkdSICO]

Hi all - for the first time, I just tried dragging a pattern from Spark into Ableton Live (PC) but, it arrived as a MIDI track.  So, I checked my preferences but it was set correctly to export as WAV when dragging a pattern.  I tried creating a new audio track and dragging onto that but, it still arrives as a MIDI track.

Im clearly doing something wrong but, cant work it out!

thanks for any suggestions,

Paul
London
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[vaikl]

If you are in the library tab of the bottom window, click "Export" on the left in your current project. A popup menu  appears, where you can change the drag-and-drop behaviour for patterns from MIDI to audio

[punkdSICO]

Hi Vaikl - thanks for the reply.  I only just got around to testing this tonight but unfortunatly, it is definitely not working..

That option that you mention is the same option (but a different way of setting it) that is in the main Preferences section, and I have already played with this option.

So, whenever I drag a pattern, it always ends up as MIDI even with this option set to Export as Audio..

Has anyone else tried this in Ableton Live (v8 on PC)?  I have tried it both Session and Arrangement views in Live.

Thanks,

Paul

[vaikl]

Are you dragging from the Spark VSTi plugin in Ableton or are you running Spark as standalone?

I'm dragging within Live 8 (on a Mac) and don't have problems.

Can you drag/export audio to the desktop when using Spark standalone???

[punkdSICO]

Hi again

I thought I had found a clue - I was runnnig a Beta 1.5.1 version but, I just reinstalled the correct production version (1.5) and still no joy.

I have also tried this outside of Live, running standalone.  I drag either a complete pattern from the main GUI (circular pattern selector) or, I drag a single track (say, the Kick track) from the Pattern windown.  Both of these just deliver a MID file to the desktop.



So, its definitely not a Live issue.  The fact that others can do this, it must be something stupid that I am doing wrong..??

btw, I can successfully Export using the menu method but not drag and drop.  I prefer the drag and drop version as it allows us to drag individual tracks.

Any thoughts?

thanks

Paul

[vaikl]

I'm sorry now, not working with a Windows machine I could only recommend to open a support ticket.

[Kevin]

Hi Paul,
you are not doing anything wrong.
This is just that you can only export midi from there.
The only place you can export audio by drag&drop is from the library panel.