It's an artificial limitation. It can be done, but it will take Ableton to agree. At the moment, Live's "policy" is to only allow a continuous selections, i.e. an uninterrupted chunk of time. If the selection includes both midi and audio clips, the Detail View panel at bottom will be grayed out with a caption in the middle warning you that you have selected clips of different types therefore it can't display anything, since it can display either audio or midi but not both simultaneously.sckbtz wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 12:49 pmMaybe I can have a go, too, in case it is still not clear: there are 10 separate clips in a track. How do we select clips 1, 4 and 8, but not the clips 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7?
I'm in the 90-day trial version and this is one of the things that make me want to cancel the trial. I posted 4 or 5 other things that are hard to understand how live cannot have this implemented... Like a simple skip forward button. Every Walkman had this, but not the most advanced audio editing platform in 2022. Or a play cursor that stays where it was after I move a clip. Incredibly annoying to the point that it's unusable.
I can understand there are hundreds of other features that ableton thinks are more important. But this one is at a very simple high level where most users will find it annoying at some point.
Or maybe we should put it in a bug thread?
If it was possible to select a non contiguous clips, all Live would have to do is show the contents of those clips in the Detail View and hide (i.e. not show) anything that had not been selected. This is technically trivial, but there's a catch specifically in Live: Live doesn't allow overlapping clips or notes. Say you have three clips A, B and C on the same track appearing in that order. If you select only clips A and C (if that was possible), and skip B, the Detail View would show the MIDI notes of A, a chunk of empty space (that's where B would be) and then the notes of C. If you add some notes with the mouse in the empty chunk of space, what would happen to B? I'm not saying a solution doesn't exist but you can see how this is a problem.
The easiest way to implement this is to allow non-contiguous selections and display a grayed-out Detail View with a warning caption, just like when we select clips of different types. Boom, done.