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Spasm
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Follow Action Groups!

Post by Spasm » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:29 am

I love the random follow actions, it's a great way to to have a unique combination of variations each time you play a set, but there needs to be a way to group clips together, and then have the follow action only go to clips in that group. Like lets say you have a different drum beat for your chorus and verse, and you want to use random fills in each one. It would be cool to be able to group your main verse beat with your verse fills and limit follow actions to within that group, and the same for the chorus beat and fills.

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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by malutki » Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:32 pm

unless I misunderstand you, that is already there, no?

here's how I remember it after a years absence,
and not checking the manual wether anything changed when updating to Live7:

to use the follow actions, the clips have to be in neighbouring slots in the same track.
So put all your verse-clips right next to each other and then one empty slot...

Voila: Group!

hope this helps
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Spasm
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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by Spasm » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:50 am

Oh, indeed it already does have groups... Ableton is one step ahead of me...

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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by tone61 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:02 am

But currently follow action cannot jump from one group to another group, right?

Actions between groups would be also very useful thing to have.
Then you could have actions similar that are available to clips now:
-jump to a clip in next group
-jump to other group
-jump to first/last group

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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by xuoham » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:08 am

tone61 wrote:But currently follow action cannot jump from one group to another group, right?

Actions between groups would be also very useful thing to have.
Then you could have actions similar that are available to clips now:
-jump to a clip in next group
-jump to other group
-jump to first/last group
Yes! Bump to that! That would be great and also the logical evolution of it.
Follow actions within follow actions... fractality. I'm missing this so much.
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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by lazlo_funktek » Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:31 pm

Well if all your tracks have parts going from the start to the end, then it's ok. It's when there's a break in a part that it becomes a problem - there's no way of starting the next group automatically.

I've got around this in the past by using dummy clips - so basically having no gaps at all - so the follow actions take you from start to finish - it'd just be simpler if you could do it with scenes instead of having to change the follow actions of all the clips.

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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by xuoham » Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:24 pm

Anything at the horizon ?
Wanted to bump this follow action on scenes too.

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Re: Follow Action Groups!

Post by vjpr » Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:24 am

Implemented in Live 11

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... in-Live-11
Scene Follow Actions
Scenes can now also use Follow Actions. You can view and edit them by double-clicking on a Scene.

The options are the same as Clip Follow Actions, excluding any clip-specific actions.

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