Help Needed to solve a problem

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Leejh
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Help Needed to solve a problem

Post by Leejh » Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:38 am

Ive been watching the following video https://youtu.be/r7fmDSw8GDQ and I cant get the same result as this guy.
He gets his loop from Packs/Beat Tools and I get mine from Drums====> Drum Rack. His is an .ALC file mind is an .ADG file

Im not sure how to post images here so the Facebook group thread is at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ableton ... 444019958/

At the bottom right corner of the browsers you can click on two side by side boxes that show either the rack at the bottom or the piano roll with notes in it from the loop.

My ALC file wont show me that at all yet both of our files seem to be a midi loop. I think it is something to do with the file type. Can you possibly explain why I cant see the notes in the piano roll with mine, why I cant play it except to preview the sound. Id love to use MafiaDistrict.adg as part of the skeleton of my song. If that is not possible then I will try to recreate it as a an .ALC loop.

Leejh
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Re: Help Needed to solve a problem

Post by Leejh » Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:29 am

I think I found the solution:

"The previews are not midi but prerecorded audio files (.ogg).

Some Ableton or partner packs contain midi clips, though. You find them in the browser either through the clips category - lots and lots to scroll through, mixed with audio clips - or you go to the packs in places, unfold the pack and look for a clips folder."

The adg files may have a midi clip in them but the preview is an ogg file. So May nor may not be able to find it in the Ableton Library Cache as per the discussion in another part of this forum by someone else.

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