Is there a way to record clip patterns?

[mauro526]

Hi all.

I'd like to be able to play a series of clips on a track (or several) and play back the pattern automatically.
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

[pepezabala]

record your pattern of clips into arrangement. Select all clips in arrangement, consolidate (ctrl-j), this makes them into a new long clip. Copy that one back to session view.

[mauro526]

Thanks pepez, but thats not what i need.
Im looking for a way to jam in sessions view. I want to play with some clips and then repeat the pattern i played.

Thanks for the answer

[broc]

I don't know if such device exists but it can certainly be done.
While jamming observe playing_status of your clips and store the start times in a table. For playback use the table to trigger the clips at corresponding time points, resp. a bit earlier. Since the timing of M4L is not accurate, it would be necessary that clip launch is quantized.

[hoffman2k]

If the clips are triggered from MIDI, I'd go with the lazy solution using Max Runtime or Leigh Hunt's objects.
Sync (with rewire), feed the MIDI Trigger signals to some virtual port connected to Live. Record time and actions into a coll... Play back later...

Anything that records MIDI events and can play them back would do in this case. If the first action starts the set, you don't even need to bother with syncing anything up.

[broc]

Yes, recording MIDI trigger signals would allow easy and perfect playback of the jam sequence.
You could record the MIDI data in a clip and sent them back into Live for playback as (virtual) remote input.

[mauro526]

Thanks. Max tutorials here i go.