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Hi Dennis,

Thank you for your answer! I'm glad to find there's an explanation to this, I thought it looked kinda buggy.

Though it sounds as if Rewire could use an update- it would be a simple but very valuable addition imo.

Best, Jonas

+1 for the positibility of referencing session clips from arrangement, better/more shortcuts, take comping as well as better multitrack editing + recording!

done right i can't see why that would interfere with the basic ideas of live. and that would suit _my_ needs perfectly

Hi-

I often rewire Live's session view into Logic in the process of beat making. It works perfectly fine when only in 4/4 but whenever something is in odd meters, Live behaves really weird: loops are not played from the beginning depending on where in the arrangement Logic is started.

I noticed ...

Thanks for your thoughts! I'll play around with it a bit and see what works for me.

anyone?

I don't quite get your first suggestion, but let me explain my needs a bit better:

I don't do live looping, actually I don't even run any loops these days. What I (mainly) do is find/create instruments in Live, and play these in a rather traditional way using a keyboard - like one would play an old ...

Hi -

I'm curious towards how you guys switch instruments live, in Live.

My live setup includes a MacBook running Live (currently 7, shortly 8 Suite) and a brand new M-Audio Oxygen 49 (3rd generation) MIDI controller.
As of now, I have about 10 tracks with each their instrument (or -rack) and ...

Hi -

I've spent the weekend tracking drums for 3 tracks, and as I've fallen in love with Live, I wanted to use that as my tape-recorder. (we're talking 12 mics total on a full drum kit)

It wasn't as easy as I'd imagined, though. So I'm curious - how do you guys work with multiple takes in many ...

Track automation -> clip envelopes - anyone?

Am I able to copy them one at a time, at least?

Hi -

I can't seem to figure out how to copy track automation into a clip itself (so I can move that clip to session view).
How's that done?

Best regards, Jonas Delfs

I've gone for the solution using two tracks with an instrument rack on each, and it works like a charm:)

Jonas

The instrument rack-solution is elegant, but has one problem - one of the instruments must be played using another controller than the others. Is there a way around this?

This is coming straight off of the top of my head, but could you achieve something like this by using a combination of chord plugins in a MIDI rack and then routing the output back into live via a virtual/physical midi connection? - might be fun.

That's a good idea. I just tried it out, and I ...

Say I have a set with 3 tracks: 1 w/ an instance of Drum Rack, and two - each w/ a soft synth.
I then have a pad controller that I want to use to switch between instruments. I've mapped the first pad to record enable track 1+2 - but how do I get the second to record enable both track 1+3?
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You're misunderstanding what I want to do.
It's part of my live setup, and I want to record enable the instruments that I want to play via a MIDI keyboard in a given section of a song.

For now, I have two copies of track 1 to be able to have that and track 2 listening for MIDI in, say, verse, and ...