FIXT!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

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Tone Deft
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FIXT!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:17 am

as I go through Session View on my Launch Pad I need a way to keep track of which tracks are the ones populated with clips I want to keep. for now I'm using pieces of white tape but that's pretty lame.

I'm thinking a row of little toggles that can be red or green, something that can stick to the bottom of the LP, just below the last row of buttons, or on the bottom edge itself.

I keep my Session View window to 8 tracks (Group Tracks FTW) so moving the focus isn't an issue. if it is, I can work around it.

it sucks to pick out 6 out of 8 tracks of cool loops only to launch a clip and lose the core loop.
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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by malutki » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:27 am

green & red & sticky - and it clears the mind?

sorry, don't have any , try near the Lounge toilets
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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by nuxnamon » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:39 am

i thought i might be able to help.. but after further reading, i can't..

UKRuss
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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by UKRuss » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:26 pm

I am actually not being funny here, but why not just delete the clips you don't want?

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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by outershpongolia » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:58 pm

You live in CA, there's sticky nugs everywhere, isn't there? :mrgreen:

Can't entirely understand what you're trying to do, but I have noticed that deactivated clips will still show up as clips in session view on the LP iirc,

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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:20 pm

UKRuss wrote:I am actually not being funny here, but why not just delete the clips you don't want?
I took the 'All The Breaks' sample set (300 old school breaks which come 3 breaks per track, unlooped, disorganized but tasty) and made a 6 tracks * 50 scene chunk of clips with it. track 7 are EIC drum loops I made by hand that go along with each scene as the BOOM BOOM backing. (Track 8 is a Group Tracks of 8 playback tracks.)

what I like to do is browse through and find loops that sound good together, when I get 6 or so together I save then as a new scene then grab the bass or whatever and go from there.

I've been doing this with the Launch Pad's mixer view, I don't stop clips I just turn off their volume. I need a better way of marking which tracks are already playing loops I want to keep.

:?


I tried nugs but they just fall on the floor, total mess.
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Re: FIXT!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by Tone Deft » Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:34 am

I think I have something worked out.

assign the bottom most row of buttons to the a/b x-fade assignment. it's a solid orange when on B and blinks when it's on A or nothing.

it's a start. maybe assigning them to something else could get me that red and green indicators.

:?

edit - assigning them to a send makes the LEDs go from orange to orange blinky. closer. sticky and orange, no red, no green. I tried messing with the assignment range, no dice.
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Re: HALP!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by outershpongolia » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:15 am

Tone Deft wrote:I tried nugs but they just fall on the floor, total mess.
Are they flame? I mean, I'll come clean up the mess? :mrgreen:

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Re: FIXT!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by skateboardkid » Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:27 am

I cant believe that there is nothing to assign them to that makes them green its really detrimental to my page layout- yellow wouldn't hut.

Tone Deft
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Re: FIXT!! need someting green, red and sticky to clear my mind!

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:08 pm

I'm much less concerned about the color than the function. any 'tard that's gonna say it's screwed cause of the color is, well, a windowlicker that misses the point, make music.
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Post by mikemc » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:03 pm

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