Yo Yo A few Q's, I'm hopin' you guys know the answers!

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Yo Yo A few Q’s, I’m hopin’ you guys know the answers!

Firstly, cheers for checkin out this thread. I’m also sorry if these seem obvious to you.

  1. If I upgrade my Ableton Akai Edition to the full version, will I be able to install it on my mac and my other laptop? Or will I need to buy two licenses?

  2. Im after a UC-33e, however I have only two USB ports on my MBP! So I was thinking of using the midi in on my Audio 8 to hook the UC-33 up, but then I will need 3 power adapters (APC40, MBP & a UC-33e) which seems some more carrying shit about! Is it possible to plug the UC-33e into a USB port and then for the Akai, use a USB to MIDI cable (if it exists) and plug that in to the Audio 8. Then I will only need a power adapter for the Akai and the laptop.

Lastly,

  1. If I upgrade (using the NI service centre) to 1.2.4 will I loose my beat grids and cue markers etc? I don’t want to have to do all that again!

Cheers!

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re 3, make sure you backup your collection and everything is written to the tags. Then, in case you lose it, you can reload the collection and stripes, but you shouldn’t. I didn’t.

re 1: someone else can go through how many instals an Ableton license gives you cause I don’t know.

re2 (doing this in circles, huh?) You can do what you’re describing, I think. But doesn’t the APC40 transmit more data than just pure MIDI to interact with Ableton? This I could be wrong on. You’d also need the MIDI Out to get the feedback from it, too. I don’t know if they make USB to MIDI In/Out cables, but without the MIDI out you lose all the feedback into your APC40 which kinda defeats the purpose, right?

And carrying 1 extra wall wart won’t suck that much, it’s gonna be finding somewhere to plug it in :stuck_out_tongue:

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Cheers for the reply! I didn’t think about the USB needing to go to a Midi in and out, good point indeed.

Anyone know if you can use one ableton license on two computers?