Need Help: Advanced Clip Navigation and Triggering

[ericneilj]

Desired Effect: 16 audio tracks, each scene then has 16 clips. Each clip can be played by using an mpd24, assigning each pad's midi note to the corresponding track-launch. Scene selection is controlled by an endless encoder; navigating scenes effectively maps 16 new clips to the mpd24 for each scene. Triggering clips is flawless and navigation is a breeze.

Problem: I need the triggering of a new clip to stop all other clips. That is, I only want one and-only-one clip playing at any one time.

I can easily achieve this effect with two tracks.

Example:
C1 triggers the clip in track-1 AND the stop-clip of track-2.
C#1 triggers the clip in track 2 AND the stop-clip of track-1.
The global quantize is 1/8 which allows me to rapidly move between the two clips, only hearing one-at-a-time.
This trick breaks down with 3 or more tracks as assigning more-than-one CC or Note to a stop-clip isn't possible (to my awareness).

What I need to achieve: To be able to stop all-other-clips on a new clip-launch either by having multiple CC or Notes trigger the same stop-clip OR by some other feature I'm unaware of. I know how to achieve this via midi-translation, but I'd like to see if there is a native solution first.

Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks -Eric

[longjohns]

damn

i knew there had to be a way but it took me a long time to figure out.

so on each of the 16 tracks, put an audio FX rack with a single utility chain (or I suppose there's some way to incorporate this concept if you already have fx on the tracks)

map all chain selectors of each of the 16 racks to the key range which is represented by the pads of your controller

map your 16 pads to the launch of each track

for each track, put the chain zone marker at the CC# which corresponds to the key which should play that track



so.....

now when you hit a pad: it launches that particular track's clip, and ALSO moves all the other tracks' rack's chain selectors to positions which don't allow audio to pass through.

[ericneilj]

nice! very creative solution. i think the only problem with this method (i assume) is that cpu is still being used on the playing-but-silenced clips. i'm going to use a midi translator (or max msp) to have each midi note also send a sequence of keystrokes corresponding to the stop-clip of all-other-tracks. this is much cleaner and will hardly use any ram at all.

why doesn't live allow one to map more than one cc to the same function?