loopered clips to be excluded from search

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baseinstinct
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loopered clips to be excluded from search

Post by baseinstinct » Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:05 pm

I have just reinstalled Live and appreciated for the first time the value of clean search for plugins with CTRL+F.

A couple of hours later it turned out this will not last:
https://ibb.co/5WhTPLC



As you can see, loopered stuff is starting to dominate the search results. Obviously, there are walkarounds, as you can try favouriting all the effects and instruments but there is no shortcut for search among favourite 1, and you would have to fav all the ableton fx presets if you like and use them.
Or you could rename each instrument track that you are going to extract loops from to avoid loops showing by the instrument name.

There is a simple solution to this and a logical one. As an option, loopered content might not be searched. This is quite a crude solution, so I though I would check: how do you go about this? Do you use search for quick access to plugins as the main thing? If yes, how do you dig through tons of loopered stuff?

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