The next solution comes down to individual Track settings in your Ableton session. Solution How To Unmute/Unsolo Ableton Tracks These are contained in the ‘In/Out’ section which can be displayed by clicking the yellow ‘I-O’ button to the right of the Master Track.Ĭheck that the ‘Cue Out’ and ‘Master Out’ are going to correct output channels and also ensure that the other tracks in your session are outputting their audio the Master Track. Check The ‘Master Out’ Section in the Master TrackĪbove the Mixer section on the Master Track, you should see options for ‘Cue Out’ and ‘Master Out’. This will ensure that the level is all the way up. Click it and drag up so that the blue color fills the dial. The Preview/Cue Volume parameter should now be displayed (it has a little headphone icon on it). If you don’t see it, click the yellow ‘M’ button to the right of the Master Channel to display the ‘Mixer’ section. This is located in the 'Session View' at the bottom of the Master Track, directly below the Master Pan parameter. Check The Headphone Level in AbletonĪbleton has a separate Preview/Cue Volume which controls the output level to headphones. If this is the case then there are some further reasons for you to investigate. The previous solution ensures that sound plays out of your connected speakers.Įven if you can hear sound out of your speakers, it’s still possible that you can’t hear audio from Ableton in your headphones. Solution How To Get Ableton To Play Through Headphones If you can hear the Test Tone out of your speakers, then you’re good to go! Here you have options to turn the Test Tone on, turn the Volume up and down, set the Tone’s frequency and even use the ‘CPU Usage Simulator’ to simulate how your audio will sound when Live is under varying levels of CPU usage. While in Live > Preferences > Audio, look for the ‘Test section. If you're using an external Audio Interface, make sure that this is connected to the computer. Once you have a driver installed, you should then be able to select it from the ‘Audio Output Device’ menu

If on a Mac, you’re in luck as you can use the pre-installed output device named ‘Built-in Output’.įor windows, you may need to download an Asio driver such as ASIO4ALL. To connect your computer’s sound card to Ableton (or any DAW), and hear sound from it, you will need to have an ASIO sound card driver installed - which stands for ‘Audio Stream Input/Output’. To test this you can play Ableton’s ‘Test Tone’ (see below for details).

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