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I don´t have Push, so just a guess: There is an arrow above the chains. If active, the controls change with selecting the chain. You don´t need to manually select the chain. See chapter 20.4.1 Auto Select:
https://www.ableton.com/en/live-manual/11/instrument-drum-and-effect-racks/#instrument-drum ...

Thanks for chiming in. I did try the auto-select button (not available specifically on the Push, but I made sure the session had this enabled before transferring to the Push). Unfortunately, it works on the laptop but not on the Push.

Have tried a number of workarounds and no good results. Anyone?

Apologies if this has been asked, I searched quite a bit and could not find what I'm trying to accomplish.

I have a P3S, and on it is a track set up to trigger and play different keyboard sounds for each song in a set. The track has a "song select" Instrument Rack whose chains are loaded up with ...

Some time ago I used a great plug-in, Relative Tap Tempo , to help solve the issue of the downbeat resetting when tapping out a changing tempo during a set. This plugin isn't available any longer, and I can't find an alternative online.

Does anyone know of an alternative solution?

Essentially, if ...

I'm using a Push 3 in standalone mode and it drives me crazy the footswitches are hard-wired to sustain and record, unless in User Mode. Previously I used MidiPipe on my laptop to intercept the sustain message and replace it with a mappable MIDI CC. In standalone mode I don't have this option.

I ...

- Each cell of the drum rack is set to play the same MIDI note it receives
- Each cell of the drum rack has an external instrument loaded which sends MIDI to the IAC bus

Just dawned on me that this technique (Cell -> External Instrument -> IAC bus) could theoretically let you control clips, drum ...

Thanks, I had taken a look at P2D, and although it looks amazing it's a little overkill for my needs. For those doing more in session view it's probably a game-changer.

For anyone interested, I do have a technique that's working pretty well for now:

- MIDI track titled "Song Select" loaded with a ...

Sorry, I'm doing a bad job of explaining. Currently, I use clips to select a scene, set up patch changes, etc. I could do it with ClyphX or something but I roll my own using MIDI and clip envelopes. I fire off those specific clips using my controller's presets. So my "Song One" preset is set up to ...

I get ClyphX, but how do you know what clip/song is what by looking at the Push?

Just a bump in case any Push users have tips or advice on how they navigate presets. So far my only solution is to use another controller which has presets built-in, or a lot of glancing between laptop and the Push's session view.

Thanks!

Why don't you think you can switch scenes?

I didn't say Push couldn't switch scenes. I did say that—as far as I know—there's no way for Push to fit with my workflow or elegantly switch to specific scenes.

For example, let's say the laptop is far away and I need to switch to the song "Burger Buns ...

Is this what your trying to achieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27vb9d4xajo

This is what I’m already doing with keyboard and pad controllers. Those clips are lined up with loops in specific scenes for each song. I can’t see an elegant way to navigate to different scenes with Push so I was ...

Hello,

My Live sets are usually set up to work like so: a keyboard track loaded with an instrument rack to play sounds; additional tracks with loops that play in sequence via scenes and IAC; and a track with clips that control the patch changes. A button on the controller "initiates" a song, and ...

Here's a little thing I wrote about setting up a click track, perhaps it'll be helpful: link