Ableton Live

[Tall_Paul]

Our scenario is we have a room full of iMacs which all students can logon to.

 

Therefore I need to install Ableton in such a way that any user can logon and use it.

 

It has been unbelievably difficult! I have managed to get it to a point where it is no licensed for all users, but I cannot get the additional packs to work for all users only for the administrator.

 

I have followed all the instructions which can be found here and am now stuck!

 

I have had a call open with Ableton since 21 November but they haven't replied, have ignored all my follow up emails, and ignored my tweet to them as well!

 

Hence I'm posting here! Any help anyone can offer will be extremely welcome!

[Mustang]

This is all off the top of my head

 

For the license do the following

 

As an admin register ableton then open terminal and run the following

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Unlock/

sudo cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Unlock/Unlock.cfg /Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Unlock/

sudo chmod 755 /Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Unlock/Unlock.cfg

 

For the packs do

 

Install the packs as admin then within ableton move them to a shared location e.g. /Users/Shared/AbletonPacks

close ableton

then open ~/Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Options.txt and replace the reference to your username with %%USERNAME%% and save the close.

open terminal and run

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 9.1.5/

sudo cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Ableton/Live\ 9.1.5/Options.txt /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 9.1.5/

sudo chmod 755 /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 9.1.5/Options.txt

[Tall_Paul]

I think the only thing I haven't done is put the options.txt file in the shared location. I'll give that a go, thanks.

[Tall_Paul]

Ah. I have no Options.txt file, do you need it? I thought it was optional and used for disabling\enabling functionality within Live itself.

 

I have made alterations to the library.cfg file and that has been copied over.