Clips fired at intervals rather than looping?

jonathanpduffy · Post by **jonathanpduffy** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:30 am

I don't think I have as much time as many, and so perhaps have missed some basic, important details...

I am loving the flexibility of live, mixing audio with clips etc... However, I can't work out how to set clips to trigger at regular intervals instead of simply looping.

Can I make it so a clip will 'fire' every 2, 4, or whatever bars in the session view?

Can I only do this in the arrangement view?

E.g. Nice drum loop :looped
Guitar strum: looped
Brass stab: every 4 bars!!! (in my dream)

I'm sure it's something to do with follow actions (which I haven't got my head around yet...)

Can anyone put me out of my misery?

Thanks

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:42 am

i think i would do it with volume enveloppes.
you'll have to "unlink" the enveloppe, and set it so that only 1 bar out of 4 (or 2 out of 8, etc) are full volume up.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:30 pm

You can turn looping off for the clip and set the follow actions to 4 bars and "Play again". It will play once every 4 bars

-tim

jonathanpduffy · Post by **jonathanpduffy** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:20 am

many thanks for this.. It works!

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:54 pm

might be easier to arrange how you want in the arranger view and then highlight everything and copy it back to the session view and trigger.

simon · Post by **simon** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:52 pm

Why don't you just change the loop to four bars with the brass-stab?

czechchap · Post by **czechchap** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:02 am

timothyallan wrote:You can turn looping off for the clip and set the follow actions to 4 bars and "Play again". It will play once every 4 bars

-tim

This is the correct answer. If you can't find it, it's in the launch section of the clip controls underneatch launch type and quantisation. it's a very useful tool.