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[chapelier fou]

+1 for manual assignments. When you use something that generates MIDI remote in the background, it is really a pain.

[loachm]

...a special curve mode for the draw tool which lets you choose between a sine, triangle and square wave to draw in some automation. I know that drawing in a triangle or a square is fairly easy, but sines are not and I think this way square and triangle automation can be drawn in a lot faster.

I imagine this feature something like this:

1. right-click to choose your curve type from a context menu.
2. going with your mouse pointer to the point from which you'd like the automation to start and then left-click
3. moving your mouse up (or down) while the left mouse-button is still pressed for increasing (decreasing) the length of the automation
4. additionally pressing ctrl and moving the mouse up (or down) will increase (decrease) the amplitude of the curve
5. pressing alt and moving your mouse left/right will move your automation to the left/right
6. releasing the mouse-button will finally draw in the curve
(- of course the curve will snap to the chosen note grid. if the grid is switched off the curve won't snap to any measurement and can be designed freely)

I hope, I have thought everything through. In my imagination a feature like this would serve a lot of the demand for lfos, which aren't that easy to implement IIRC. I think, enhancing the automation like this would make the need for an lfo obsolete in some cases...

[@OP: ...please take my earlier request for a spectrum read/match feature for the EQ to copy frequency spectrums also to the first page - you seem to have forgotten this the first time - thanks!...]

[jasper]

Set Track's output to One of the BUSSES.

The way it is right now you can set a Bus' INPUT to one of the other tracks.
Can you give me a reason for this?

The reason there are Busses is so that a producer can route more than one track into one Bus, see?

[Mr-Bit]

Reletive/encoder mode for macros.Could fix misaligned parameters when changing programs also good for retaining reletive positions of muliple parameters mapped to one macro.

[Korhan]

- Breakpoint snap to grid (or breakpoint quantization)

I have been wondering ever since I started using automation in Live that how come a software that has looping features for automation within clips does not let the user snap those breakpoints to the quantization grid. Why do I have to spend time on 'trying' to put a breakpoint exactly at the end of the loop when I use 'unlinked' automation envelopes in a clip? Draw mode is not a substitution as it then creates another workload of deleting many automation points to create smooth transitions as opposed to draw modes step-like changes.

I know Ableton has halted new feature additions until all the bugs are ironed out - which is a great and bold move by them - but I think lack of this breakpoint-snap feature is more of a bug than a new feature.

Happy new year!

[11olsen]

what i really need:

- ability to save convoluted racks (rack in rack) as a slicing preset!

- open rex files like a folder to import single slices (they forget how many people use
recycle to cut samples and not to build stupid loops )

- more mapable parameters in sampler (at least sample start, loop start, loop end)

- free customization of standard remote mapping of devices grrr

[chapelier fou]

more mapable parameters in sampler (at least sample start, loop start, loop end)

Abes, you do that, you have a buyer. Think about it, isn't it a shame for such an instrument ?

[mattos.b]

colored warp markers would be great.

[hwelsh]

definitely better bussing methods. Being able to bus busses to other busses (grouping groups) would be awesome.

and maybe I am missing something, but if I drop a device on a group, I can't edit automation curves for it in arrangement.

Set Track's output to One of the BUSSES.

The way it is right now you can set a Bus' INPUT to one of the other tracks.
Can you give me a reason for this?

The reason there are Busses is so that a producer can route more than one track into one Bus, see?

[hwelsh]

more sampler options would be sickkk. sampler can only get better.

and colored warp markers would be tight also. or colors that corresponded to where it was relative the the other beats in the song. if there are a bunch of warp markers it would be nice to be able to tell which where on beats or between beats and how far between each. (relative color gradients??)

[outershpongolia]

more mapable parameters in sampler (at least sample start, loop start, loop end)

Abes, you do that, you have a buyer. Think about it, isn't it a shame for such an instrument ?

It is a shame. I'm not even "power user" status yet and this has been a brick wall for me.

[hwelsh]

Sampler could and should really just be an incredible beast.

What I always end up doing is sketching my percussion (sometimes in detail) using impulse since it is so easy to see how each sound relates to the other sounds temporally. it's a very convenient drum machine. Then I re-make the patterns all separately in sampler, as sampler gives me more fine-tuning options. Moving the patterns from impulse into sampler can be a pain though, and the transfer is sometimes frustrating.

Would be cool if sampler/impulse were one and the same. Opened it up and there was a place to drop one sample, but you could press a little "+" button at the top and it would add another place to drop a new sample (maybe right next to it, like a rack). Then you could sketch out a beat really quickly, and then also do the fine tuning and still be able to move the patterns around easily relative to the other percussive patterns. Then, when you wanted to separate each sample into different tracks (to apply separate effects/drop separate devices) there ought to just be a button that says "Make into a new track" or something like that, which detaches that sample from the others and puts it into its own column to be manipulated further.

This would streamline the process a little more for me, save me some hassle, and would make Live/Sampler the ultimate drum machine/sampler by far.

[hwelsh]

Even better, if in the new, beastly Sampler there was room for one sample like it is now, but there was also one little empty box to the right of it that looked just like one of the little boxes in Impulse that you drag your samples into. When you dragged a sample into the little empty box, it would spawn a new, full sized sampler window with the dragged sample loaded. (this would save time, screw having to press a "+" button and THEN dragging your sample in). Each of the sampler boxes would now have empty little impulse boxes next to them, whichever blank box I drag my new sample into designates which sample the new sample will appear adjacent to. That way I can have a bunch of drum samples loaded up into the "sample rack" or whatever, and if I want to add a new kick drum sample (for example) I don't have to default add it to the end of the string of samples (maybe way out next to my high hats), I can drag it into the little empty impulse box that is on my first kick drum sample, and it will spawn a new sampler looking thing adjacent to the first kick drum sampler looking thing.

Within these new "sample racks" you'd be able to minimize each sample, since you don't always need to see all the parameters at once. they would minimize within the sample rack and it would look just like impulse again! an (endless) amount of little impulse boxes with play buttons on them, all the way across, but if you double click on the header of one, it becomes a full on sampler interface. you'd be able to turn samples on/off just like turning devices on/off, and of course be able to solo as well.

Sampler could and should really just be an incredible beast.

What I always end up doing is sketching my percussion (sometimes in detail) using impulse since it is so easy to see how each sound relates to the other sounds temporally. it's a very convenient drum machine. Then I re-make the patterns all separately in sampler, as sampler gives me more fine-tuning options. Moving the patterns from impulse into sampler can be a pain though, and the transfer is sometimes frustrating.

Would be cool if sampler/impulse were one and the same. Opened it up and there was a place to drop one sample, but you could press a little "+" button at the top and it would add another place to drop a new sample (maybe right next to it, like a rack). Then you could sketch out a beat really quickly, and then also do the fine tuning and still be able to move the patterns around easily relative to the other percussive patterns. Then, when you wanted to separate each sample into different tracks (to apply separate effects/drop separate devices) there ought to just be a button that says "Make into a new track" or something like that, which detaches that sample from the others and puts it into its own column to be manipulated further.

This would streamline the process a little more for me, save me some hassle, and would make Live/Sampler the ultimate drum machine/sampler by far.

[hwelsh]

You might have to include the ability to make a sample pitchable (like sampler's piano roll) or keep it anchored to it's original pitch (like in impulse) and you'd have to be able to do this to each sample added. This interface would be interesting, as you might have to incorporate a piano roll into the steady, one-line impulse note drawer, or maybe it wouldnt have to be that complex, it might be a simpler pitching method and could look like the velocity lines or something. you could always transpose the sample in the sampler-like interface, but this would require copies of the same sample, all set to different pitches, if you wanted, for example, a sequence of toms that got consecutively higher pitched.

a person would likely not be making melodies or basslines in the same instrument (Beast Sampler) as their drum beat, so it wouldn't necesarily have to be a fully integrated piano roll/impulse hybrid. You could have a rudimentary pitch-editing interface and it would still greatly improve what impulse can do already.

im giving myself goosebumps!

Even better, if in the new, beastly Sampler there was room for one sample like it is now, but there was also one little empty box to the right of it that looked just like one of the little boxes in Impulse that you drag your samples into. When you dragged a sample into the little empty box, it would spawn a new, full sized sampler window with the dragged sample loaded. (this would save time, screw having to press a "+" button and THEN dragging your sample in). Each of the sampler boxes would now have empty little impulse boxes next to them, whichever blank box I drag my new sample into designates which sample the new sample will appear adjacent to. That way I can have a bunch of drum samples loaded up into the "sample rack" or whatever, and if I want to add a new kick drum sample (for example) I don't have to default add it to the end of the string of samples (maybe way out next to my high hats), I can drag it into the little empty impulse box that is on my first kick drum sample, and it will spawn a new sampler looking thing adjacent to the first kick drum sampler looking thing.

Within these new "sample racks" you'd be able to minimize each sample, since you don't always need to see all the parameters at once. they would minimize within the sample rack and it would look just like impulse again! an (endless) amount of little impulse boxes with play buttons on them, all the way across, but if you double click on the header of one, it becomes a full on sampler interface. you'd be able to turn samples on/off just like turning devices on/off, and of course be able to solo as well.

Sampler could and should really just be an incredible beast.

What I always end up doing is sketching my percussion (sometimes in detail) using impulse since it is so easy to see how each sound relates to the other sounds temporally. it's a very convenient drum machine. Then I re-make the patterns all separately in sampler, as sampler gives me more fine-tuning options. Moving the patterns from impulse into sampler can be a pain though, and the transfer is sometimes frustrating.

Would be cool if sampler/impulse were one and the same. Opened it up and there was a place to drop one sample, but you could press a little "+" button at the top and it would add another place to drop a new sample (maybe right next to it, like a rack). Then you could sketch out a beat really quickly, and then also do the fine tuning and still be able to move the patterns around easily relative to the other percussive patterns. Then, when you wanted to separate each sample into different tracks (to apply separate effects/drop separate devices) there ought to just be a button that says "Make into a new track" or something like that, which detaches that sample from the others and puts it into its own column to be manipulated further.

This would streamline the process a little more for me, save me some hassle, and would make Live/Sampler the ultimate drum machine/sampler by far.

[hwelsh]

• the ability to make ghost (linked) copies of clips, so when you make a change to the original, all linked copies get changed also (both in arrangement and in session view)

yeah. sometimes I'll have a bunch of copies of the same clip grouped, it would make it a lot easier to think of new note combinations if I could edit all of them at once. could be as easy as selecting all of them, and editing one, and the changes just magically effecting the rest of the clips highlighted. gets annoying changing one clip, and then copying and pasting it into the other spaces just so I can hear the change and find out its not good!