Fold My Scale

[ze2be]

I have no idea what scale I just made, but I like it and I want to fold it with all the octaves available.


In fact I never start with a locked scale, I jam and play around until I find something I like. Like probably most people do.


For example it could be incorporated in the gui with first hitting the fold button, then the scale button, (now both are active) while having no scales selected in the scale menu. Aka «Fold My Scale»


(Post written during Live 11 beta)

[jonljacobi]

You can do this now, albeit not dead easily. See my post on constraining with Drum Racks.

[ze2be]

You can do this now, albeit not dead easily. See my post on constraining with Drum Racks.

Thanks. Its cool, but to much work around for me. Especially when jamming out musical ideas it must go at once, or I loose my flow.

Prefer to be able to fold and de-fold on the fly, like current fold but with full octaves, aka "Fold My Scale".

[jonljacobi]

Understandable. Who knows? Seems like a performance-oriented feature. Maybe in 10.2. If you've already got notes, drag them to the left beyond the beginning of the clip, then hit the fold button. Only works for one clip though.

[ze2be]

Understandable. Who knows? Seems like a performance-oriented feature. Maybe in 10.2. If you've already got notes, drag them to the left beyond the beginning of the clip, then hit the fold button. Only works for one clip though.

Yes, something like that could work. Or even better: Fold a clip like normal, but let us see all the octaves too! aka "Fold My Scale".

[jonljacobi]

Hah. They just added it to 11. LOL.

[ze2be]

Hah. They just added it to 11. LOL.

Where did you read that?

[jonljacobi]

I'm sure you've found the info by now. Congrats!

[ze2be]

I have set of this sunday to learn all the new futures of Live 11.

I can still not get it to fold my own scales.. Been through the tutorials, and the manual.

Does not seem possible. I don't think it is possible.

[jonljacobi]

I was wrong, you can only fold they're own scales. But if you just created a scale, you can just use the plain fold. To keep it, drag the notes off the grid to the left, then fold, then save the clip and use it as a template.

[ze2be]

..and actually one of the ableton guys tipped me that you can shift up arrow a norrmaly folded scale, and as such increase the octave range of the fold.

So that sort of works..

[jonljacobi]

Nice.