Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

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Roverman79
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Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by Roverman79 » Sat May 01, 2021 5:51 pm

Hello everyone. We have a session mode, two tracks, audio and a midi drum rec-metronome with hints where to play, I myself am a drummer. When playing from the right beat, clicking on the audio track starts playing from the right place, and the midi track is a metronome from the very beginning. Is it possible to synchronize them somehow, or am I doing something wrong ?

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by jestermgee » Sun May 02, 2021 1:20 am

I am sure you are doing something wrong and I am sure in your head things are clear but reading your issue as if I am trying to draw a picture blind, I do not understand what "playing from the right place" and "the midi track is a metronome from the very beginning" even mean.

You probably need to make a screenshot, google how to post it here then explain what your picture means.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by Roverman79 » Sun May 02, 2021 10:56 am

jestermgee wrote:
Sun May 02, 2021 1:20 am
I am sure you are doing something wrong and I am sure in your head things are clear but reading your issue as if I am trying to draw a picture blind, I do not understand what "playing from the right place" and "the midi track is a metronome from the very beginning" even mean.

You probably need to make a screenshot, google how to post it here then explain what your picture means.
I can't figure out how to insert a photo! There is a screen shot.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by jestermgee » Sun May 02, 2021 9:59 pm

jestermgee wrote:
Sun May 02, 2021 1:20 am
google how to post it here then explain what your picture means.
Sorry, read you are a drummer :)
- Upload photo: https://imgbb.com/
- Post link to photo
- Explain about photo

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by Roverman79 » Wed May 05, 2021 7:02 pm

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Audio track and MIDI (Drum rack) track.
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Start playing the audio track with 21 bars by hovering the cursor and clicking the mouse button. The audio track is played from 21 bars.
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At the same time, the MIDI (Drum rack) track starts playing not from 21 bars, but from the beginning, that is, from 1 bar.

Is there any way to make both tracks play from the bar I selected, in this case from the 21 bar? Synchronize.

P.S. I apologize in advance, dear moderators, if I did something wrong again.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by jestermgee » Wed May 05, 2021 7:50 pm

Ah, yes makes sense with some pictures.

Session mode is a "non linear" mode so you do not have a timeline to jump everything forward on. All session mode does is play clips locked to the BPM and does not care about the length of each clip. The issue is if you have one clip that is 64 bars long and you skip to bar 32, how would live know how to progress another clip that only has 12 bars?

Basically if you skip to a point in a clip on one track it cannot tell other tracks to progress. You need to have everything laid out on the arrangement timeline for that.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by Roverman79 » Wed May 05, 2021 8:06 pm

jestermgee wrote:
Wed May 05, 2021 7:50 pm
Ah, yes makes sense with some pictures.

Session mode is a "non linear" mode so you do not have a timeline to jump everything forward on. All session mode does is play clips locked to the BPM and does not care about the length of each clip. The issue is if you have one clip that is 64 bars long and you skip to bar 32, how would live know how to progress another clip that only has 12 bars?

Basically if you skip to a point in a clip on one track it cannot tell other tracks to progress. You need to have everything laid out on the arrangement timeline for that.
And how to do it? What is the process?
Or will I fail to implement this in session mode?

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by jestermgee » Wed May 05, 2021 8:50 pm

Cant do in session if you want to manually skip around in a clip.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by Roverman79 » Thu May 06, 2021 5:26 am

jestermgee wrote:
Wed May 05, 2021 8:50 pm
Cant do in session if you want to manually skip around in a clip.
Thanks! It is a pity that this is not possible. Maybe in future versions of AB it will be possible.

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Re: Syncing Ableton Live 10 Tracks

Post by jestermgee » Thu May 06, 2021 5:34 am

I doubt it for the reasons I already mentioned but hope never hurt anyone.

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