Snapshots

[nicogrubert]

A snapshot is a saved state of everything in ableton's session view.
Let's say I have 8 clips playing. All SEND knobs have value "0%". I want to save this state in order to go back to this state after I changed a lot of values - e.g. I turned the SEND knobs on some tracks to "100%", changed some parameters of some VST plugins on the master, stopped 2 clips, etc.

Imagine you play something (e.g. the break of a track). You move faders, turn knobs. Then you almost at the end of the break and then you re-call the snapshot to bring the beat back.

If anyone knows the Yamaha SU700 ... this machine has 8 snapshot buttons where you can save the current scene by holding down one of the 8 snapshot buttons for 2 seconds. To recall the saved snapshot just hit the button where you saved the snapshot. This is an excellent live feature!

[marcoskohler]

Very nice idea.

[33tetragammon]

same here

+1

[chapelier fou]

+1. That's why I have been using audiomulch for years.

[nicogrubert]

I thought Live was developed for using it live on stage but I see more and more Live is being developed as a full DAW and in my opinion they loose their original focus a little bit.
Please, less DAW features, more Live-on-stage-features...


However, I'll give ableton 8 a try as my new DAW.

[Chicle777]

It´s similar on the Elektron Machinedrum where you can tweak for ex. the bitrate or the decay on all presets at the same time and with a simple key combo you reset command all values to preset default.

[wunderbober]

All snapshot features of SU700 ,you can find in Phrazor,by the way, its also match better on the groove side than Ableton.

[hoffman2k]

I wrote an application for this for those interested http://www.thecovertoperators.org/Max/M ... hot-matrix