General Music Chat

I probably will get chewed out for putting this question in general chat rather than recording category, but more viewers here, and thus more of a chance to get some good advice,... I have been using my Toneport UX-2 interface, Ableton Live Lite 5.2.2 recording software, and Gear Box, lately off and on, mainly off, to get some tracks down, and basically erasing them after playback several times through the headphones, (no monitor spkrs.) using the track)s to listen to while trying to compose other instrument parts, for what will be a tune, well, yesterday I decided to try to make a WAV file of the master recording, of a tune with 2 guitar parts, and 1 bass part using my Hondo II bass..I got the WAV files to take, on the RENDER TO DISK FILE menu, but although master track is supposed to be the default , I got 3 separate WAV files with each corresponding instrumet, rather than a file with all 3 tracks conglomerated into 1 file?.. I read some advice at ableton forums, and somebody said to update to latest live lite edition, but it's 685,000,000 bytes and I could never get it downloaded on dial up here.. if I use an external hardrive or USB stick, to download at a faster internet connection, will the data be corrupted when I trasnsfer the update into my computer? since it looked like Ableton uses cookies to verify the user has a license in order to upgrade to latest version free, and trying to have a successful download would not work at another ISP address, because ableton would not recognize the puter as valid?.. really in a conumdrum

I may be wrong, but what computer you download it on shouldn't matter, as long as the computer you install it on has the right cookies. It might not be cookies, more likely to be a registry entry. Lots of software does that, registry entries are used to limit trial versions too, so once the 30 day trial version is out of time the software will not work until you format the thing and start over unless you know where to find the registry entries. Good luck with that...uninstall and reinstall the software won't work, the uninstall program does not remove that registry entry.

Downloading on a different machine and saving to a USB drive shouldn't corrupt the data, I've done that dozens of times. Last time was when I downloaded a version of Linux to burn to CD and run from the CD. Pretty cool stuff, you might check into Linux, Puppy is the most common one that runs from CD, and you can get all kinds of software for it, most of it open source. You can also find versions tailored to specific kinds of usage, like astronomy, science, music, etc.

Anyway I digress...downloading shouldn't corrupt anything as long as you're using a good USB drive you know is not infected with any nasties.

I don't know anything about Ableton, but it sounds like when you rendered, you 'stem rendered' the 3 tracks. Doublecheck in your render menu that you selected 'master mix' and not 'selected tracks'.