LIVE - from Free time to Quantised, master clock reset??

[The III Man]

Hi There

Ive been using Ableton for about 10 years now and use it in a live band environment as well as the studio.

I have one recurring issue which I am wondering whether I am being dim.

In session view, we are playing through clips. We want to come off the click into free time, no beats etc. So I trigger the next scene and there are no clips playing but the master clock is still running. Now what I want to do is start the next clip unquantised, when I want, and I want to then be able to carry on playing the next series of clips all quantised.

My current solution is I have to press the space bar on the computer to stop the master clock, and then I can restart. But I hate having to bend down and press space, it looks whack and it also stops any live notes on our on board synths we are running so pianos can suddenly stop.

The solution of setting the clip after the free time to unquantise, gets us into the next clip on time. but we arent on the quantised midi clock so if I need to get to the next scene I cannot use any quantise settings.

Is there a fix for this? Please don't suggest mapping the master stop button as I know I can do that but that stops all live vsts and also adds the risk of falsely firing the signalling and stopping the track. I am pretty certain there isn't, but i hope I am wrong. Failing that I guess I start my campaign for a new feature.

I would imagine a new clip quantise setting of "None - restart master" - so you fire the unquantised clip and ableton updates the master clock to be back on the global quantise.

[bosonHavoc]

the only thing i can think of is set up a tap tempo for the foot or what ever limb is free.
use it to get the clock back in line a few bars before you trigger the quarantined clip.
but you will have to be sure that the clip that you launched when off the clock
is a wave file and warp is turned off so that the tempo will not effect the clip.