Any way to simultaneously set the start/end time for an entire row of clips in a group?

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Music Is Good
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Any way to simultaneously set the start/end time for an entire row of clips in a group?

Post by Music Is Good » Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:04 pm

I have a group with several audio clips in. Each audio clip is quantized and has the exact same length.

If I click on one of the rows in the group channel, I can change the follow actions for all clips in that row at once, but the start/end boxes seem to be greyed out. Is there any way to make a change to the start/end point of all clips in that row simultaneously?

I basically want to take the stems of a full song and split them up into sections, so each row corresponds to a section of the song (e.g. intro, first breakdown, first main section etc). At the moment I'm doing it by dragging each full stem into the top row and then manually setting an end point (e.g. 33.1.1) for each clip. I can then link all of the follow actions of the group and have them automatically go to the next row when the clips end.

Now I'll copy all those clips down a row, but set the start point in each clip to 33.1.1 and the end point to something like 69.1.1.

Then copy again and set the start point in each clip to 69.1.1 etc etc etc.

Would be great if I could just set the start/end points for the entire row at once. Hopefully that's possible and I'm just missing something obvious! I can't see why the start/end boxes would otherwise be displayed when clicking on the group, if you can't edit them.

edit: forgot to add, I'm in Ableton 11! Thanks in advance for any responses :)

chapelier fou
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Re: Any way to simultaneously set the start/end time for an entire row of clips in a group?

Post by chapelier fou » Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:54 pm

I would, if possible, set the whole song in arrangement, then from here, select the regions with the loop brace and consolidate to new scenes.
Would it work for you ?
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