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Not bad, I'll look into it, thanks. I'd rather that Ableton just worked
with the hardware manufacturers to allow for the common case of wanting to
use a clip slot again though

Cheers for the advice Jonny.

> who cares if your crowd thinks you look like you're checking email?

me ;)

I'm not sure that Katapult will help with the session view stuff I want to
do as I'd still need to see the laptop screen to see which clip was highlighted
before I hit delete, etc. BUT it does ...

A bit more digging shows that it's not currently possible to delete a clip from a clip slot
unless you do it on the actual UI. Looks like Ableton don't surface it in any API - big shame:

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=129451

http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438

Yep, I use Automap Pro. I'm not sure it'll work for me as it's not
just the last-played clip that I'd want to re-record - it's any of them
at any time. I'll look into it though, thanks yur2die4.

Can anyone help with this? Here's the summary of what I'd like to do, using my Launchpad and/or Zero SL mkII:

* record a MIDI clip
* record another MIDI clip in the same clip slot, entirely discarding the previous one

Does any Ableton wizard know how to do this? Thanks!

Hi,

I'm currently looking into how I can use Live to do live sets, recording
clips live etc. I want to be able to do everything using my Launchpad, keyboard
and Zero SL mkII - i.e. no interaction with the laptop's screen/keyboard.

Using my Launchpad I can hit a clip button to start recording
into ...