Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

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Machinesworking
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Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by Machinesworking » Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:55 am

OK what the hell happened to being able to turn looping on and off??
Live 9.1.7 on OSX Yosemite, Command L turns loop selection on, but hitting it again does not turn it off like every other version of Live I've used?
Is this a bug I'm experiencing or is this the "new improved" way?

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by Machinesworking » Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:30 pm

Why do developers do this? Is there a single advantage to taking functionality away from software??

No joke this is a total head scratcher to me. The only thing I can think is it's somehow related to some other function that they decided was more important?

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by darkenedsoul » Wed Apr 08, 2015 5:28 pm

Hi,

Not sure if this will help but if in Session View take a look at the look info (highlight loop so you get e/l/etc letters and open them up. It may be put somewhere else. Been a while since I toyed around in Live so....

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by Machinesworking » Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:05 pm

Sorry, I thought I was clear, I'm talking about "Loop Selection" in Arrangement View. You can set a keyboard key to do the same thing, but the old command was "Command L", now that only turns it on, not off...

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by stringtapper » Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:08 pm

Gotta be a bug. Happening here too.
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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by Steve Glen » Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:43 pm

Weird.

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by zeropoint » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:43 pm

Just checked on 8.2.6. Same behaviour you describe there. So it appears it existed before version 9. Which version were you able to turn arrange loop off with CMD L ?
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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by Machinesworking » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:18 pm

zeropoint wrote:Just checked on 8.2.6. Same behaviour you describe there. So it appears it existed before version 9. Which version were you able to turn arrange loop off with CMD L ?
curious? I really don't rember it being a problem in 8? I've been using Live since version 3 so pretty much every version for years and years.. Going to get a hold of tech support on this.

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Re: Loop Selection in 9 WTF?

Post by broc » Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:19 am

From the manual (Live 8), Cmd-L does "Loop Selection" which means the loop is set to the currently selected area.
Apparently there is no key command just for loop turning on/off.

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