abiah wrote:luddy, the new track with same instrument way is more convoluted to the more basic feature being requested, its really a workaround. Duplicating an entire instrument (thereyby doubling cpu impact) and adding steps & clicks is hardly more efficient than just clicking overdub and playing into an exiting clip.
hi, in Logic the second track plays into the same instance of the instrument; there is no duplication of instrument. it's the same as opening a MIDI track in live and routing it to an existing instrument track, except that in Logic both new and old tracks can send MIDI (note) data to the instrument.
EDIT: OK, now I understand what the OP means. He simply wants for the new notes to be added to the existing MIDI clip instead of being put into a fresh MIDI clip. That makes perfect sense.
The current implementation gives you something like a poor man's "comping" or multiple-take facility, in that the new clip contains all the takes you did. And the problem is that consolidate truncates/deletes notes that overhang the beginning/end of a clip, so when you crop the overdubbed material and consolidate with the surrounding stuff you lose notes or parts of them.
If Ableton fixed the consolidate operation so that it kept notes that overhang the active area of a clip, seems to me that would largely fix the current implementation, i.e., you could simply consolidate without a bunch of fiddly editing and you'd get the result you want, by and large. A true overdub mode like session view has might be better though, as the OP has suggested...
-Luddy
