fine editing automation

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ian_halsall
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fine editing automation

Post by ian_halsall » Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:34 pm

Is there a way to do this?

For example I can of course draw and record automation for tempo but if I want to be really precise it's hard to get the value of say 130bpm using the mouse and drawing.

Is there something a bit like list editor in Cubase where I can overtype the 129.67 or indeed enter some new lines?

thx

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by snakedogman » Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:39 pm

nope.

Requested many many many times though. Who knows, maybe Live 9? (ahhhh ok we all know 9 still won't have it ;))

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by ian_halsall » Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:47 pm

That's a shame - can't be that difficult

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by Hermanus » Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:54 pm

Don't say NO! add to this a false requested and not granted feature that is fully efficient in live 8

Just press&hold CTRL + mouse clic to precisely set your automation dot where you exactly want it to be
CTRL = command on macOS

Now about the tempo, you have to play with minimum and maximum values [just below the song tempo box in arrangement view]

If you have it set from 20bpm to 999bpm even with ctrl+mouse clic it will not work well.

Set it around the values you wanna tight edit

Hope it helps

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by ian_halsall » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:05 pm

It's a bit better with ctrl and move the mouse.

But not ideal - there should be a way to type it in.

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by Hermanus » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:20 pm

It becomes ideal when you expand the window.

I don't blame it for this, it just works great

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Re: fine editing automation

Post by ian_halsall » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:35 pm

I just expanded my master track as big as it would go.

I found that using control and mouse it was not possible to set the tempo to 104.00 - 103.99 or 104.01

What's the trick to set it to 104.00?

I still think it would be quite easy to have a popup box to enter them - it's probably easier from a coding perspective than the scrolling control mouse.

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