- Have you ever set up a brand new Mac machine
plugged in your microphone,
plugged into your interface,
Open Ableton Live and suddenly realize,
Ableton is getting no audio before.
Maybe you've even tried it in different programs
and it works in GarageBand and works in Logic,
but Ableton will not receive your audio input.
If so, stick around because I'm gonna show you why,
and how to solve that.
All right so if you're like me,
you've gotten a Mac recently
in the past couple years,
you've installed Ableton Live,
you've gone to record an Ableton's not receiving input.
You've got your mic setup correctly,
you've got your interface, connected correctly,
you go into Ableton Live,
it even sees your interface,
audio input device,
Universal Audio Thunderbolt,
everything's looking great.
I even look at the interface right now and it's metering.
I see the meters.
Maybe you've even gone so far
as to open GarageBand or Logic
and it works in another program,
but it doesn't work in Ableton Live.
This has happened to me multiple times
so don't feel stupid
and I've had so many people reach out
that are incredibly, incredibly intelligent people
that have spent time on the phone with Apple,
to, we're troubleshooting and we're ready
to take their Macs back because
they're a piece of junk,
till they suddenly realize this fantastic setting.
And the new Mac OS is that prevented this.
So when you set up a new audio interface,
when you open a new dol,
any program that makes use
of your camera, your microphone,
anything like that,
you have to allow that
on a Mac.
It's, I get why Apple did it,
It's to make sure people aren't spying on us
accidentally and that we've given permission to everyone.
But it's one of those annoyances that we often miss
when We're quickly trying to set something up,
and then it messes things up.
So I can talk in my microphone right now
you look at in live, it's not metering.
Here's how to solve it.
I'm going to close Ableton Live
I would suggest you close your dol before you do this.
Go to System Preferences.
I do command comma which is spotlight
and I start typing to go there,
and I'm going to go
to System Preferences.
We need to go to security and privacy,
and then we're going to go to the privacy tab,
which is all the way to the right here,
and then we're going to go to microphone.
Now, once I go to microphone,
you might need to click this lock
to make changes if you're not logged in
or haven't done that recently.
And when you do that,
it's gonna ask for your password,
so I'm going to do that now.
Don't look.
Okay, so I added my password, it's unlocked.
Thankful, you didn't see it,
so I'm still secure,
and looking right here, What do we see?
Ableton Live 10 suite
and if you read the prompt,
it says allow the apps below
to access your microphone.
This is why Ableton is not seeing my microphone,
I click this switch here,
and then I can click this lock to secure it.
Now let's go back into Ableton,
and let's open this guy up,
and let's see if we see our microphone.
Okay, so we've got Ableton open,
I'm gonna go back into preferences command comma,
and then I'm going to reselect my interface here.
Let's see built-in microphone
for now let's do, Where was it?
Universal Audio Thunderbolt.
Now let's look over here at my track track one,
and you see audio from one,
it is metering, we are getting audio,
everything is good.
Now the thing that it's important to,
to remember and realize is
every time you install a brand new dol,
it should prompt you to allow
to use your microphone,
don't just breeze through that.
Make sure you hit OK.
If for some reason you forget,
it is not working,
maybe you temporarily installed a, a,
a new dol on your computer to track something
or you're working with someone else
producing a song with someone else
and they're using Logic or Pro tools,
and you have to install a new dol.
Make sure you allow access to the microphone for that dol,
every time you're going to use it.
If you get a new computer,
just make sure you remember to do that as well, too.
So hopefully that helps solve that problem for you.
I know it's been an annoyance for me,
and man it's such a pain,
but that's Pretty simple problem,
Pretty simple solution
for that and way to solve it.
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