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well, I guess the workaround is pretty easy - record the segment into a new midi clip using track-to-track recording, but it still seems like a terminology bug or at least inconsistent UI feature - you can render a selected area to disk, why can't you export a selected area to midi file?

I recorded a clip in MIDI, and then I split the clip into several sections. I want to export only a single section, but Export MIDI Clip insists on exporting the entire recorded clip. Since each section is technically a Clip, it seems to me that this is a Live bug. Is there a clean workaround? (BTW ...

Here's something that has come up a couple of times for me: I'm trying to create a short theme by jamming over a beat in a clip or a scene. I might specifically want it to be 2 bars or 4 bars. What I'd like to have happen is that I can trigger recording in a clip with a footpedal, then stop ...

I'm just getting into using Live 6, and I'm discovering clip management to rapidly be becoming a major issue. There are various things to manage:

- Impulse presets (are the samples stored with the presets? if the original files move, are the presets destroyed?)
- I might have 20 clips in 2 ...

That sounds good. I hadn't gotten into them yet, other than to use the presets, but that does sound like a simple plan. Thank you both.

Warren

Hi,

I'm trying to use the Trigger Finger with Live in a live performance context, and I'd like (for a start) to be able to use the controller to choose the instruments and presets I'm playing instead of using the mouse or computer keyboard.

So my very first question: suppose I'm playing in a MIDI ...