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tassock wrote:What I'm hoping for is the ability to insert clips into a session view cell by passing a file path.

It's supposed to be on the feature request list. I was hoping for that one as well. See here http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=125093

bummer. this was one of the key features I was hoping for. The obvious idea is to completely remote control live from a controller/touchscreen. Hoping for an 1.1 release supporting this feature. cheers. Akeem

If the Maschine is feedbackable from M4L, I will be all over it. Control LED states and write text to the LCD screens- that's my idea of a dream controller.
Mine too, though in my dream controller the pads could themselves display text.

I posted a feature request for full LCD text control here ...

you probably could use 2 maschine controllers to get 8x4 triggers.


Anyway, one huge advantage of the maschine seem to be the LCDs. If you look at their videos, you'll see that in scene mode, they show a 4x4 grid
where each cell represents a scene name. Now if they would implement the ability to ...

unfortunately this should be dynamic. I though about putting all songs in the arrangement and using those "clickable markers" controlled via a virtual midi detour to jump to other songs/masters. But even that not flexible enough, as I'd like to decide what to play at runtime.

Too bad that that you ...

you should only have to play the "master" groove clip in the arrangement view. everything else can be done in the session view. remove the stop buttons for the "groove" track on all scenes in session, if you want to trigger scenes.
but this master groove/tempo clip/song will also change every 3-5 ...

almost there ...

Let me put it into my own words. So the plan is to encode a clips tempo variations into MIDI and route this via a virtual midi driver back to the min/max tempo of live's master track, therefore setting live's master tempo to follow the tempo changes from the unwarped clip. right ...

Have you thought about chopping up the clip and using the scene to change the tempo?
ooppppssss...forgot about that,,,,
because that would only work for tempo switches, not for slow changes, right?

About your suggestion 3dot ...
I'm still not 100% sure how to do this, but as far as I understand ...

Thank you 3dot... and Motion

there is a workaround... ehm...
hint:search forum for 'dummy clips'...

I did, also watched the dummy videos motion linked to, but can't imagine how it would help. As far as I understood, dummy clips would help for (triggering) effect automation, but how would this ...

thanks motion. that part of the manual was also quoted in the topic my search revealed. As far as I understand the relations between session and arrangement, it will not help in my case. But would love to be proven wrong.

Hey, I'm new to ableton and wonder if the following is possible in session view (found one post regarding this, but that one seems to only work in arragement view).

I have an old jazz-funk song and want to play it unwarped. In the middle of the song the tempo decreases from 100 to 80 bpm.
Now I ...

yeah, live.path sounds like it could be excatly what would be needed. Maybe the other objects too. Too bad there's currently not much info about those objects. The current python based API does not allow this stuff, unless anything changed in the new _framework?

For the LCD system, I don't think it ...

If the API allows to programmatically load a clip by sending a path to a file on disk (and the session view coordinates) to live, then I'm gonna build a custom filebrowser which will work on a midi controller's LCD displays.

Does anyone know if the API will allow this kind of stuff?