Search clips by name

[jimmynitcher]

Sets with large amounts of clips - can't find them quick enough, surely this is a common problem amongst DJ's?

Something like Alfred on the mac would be nice - a hotkey that you type the first couple of letters.

[Jinsai]

yeah, that would be a cool feature.

I guess as a workaround, you could organize your sets alphabetically and then assign key maps to quick-toggle focus to the track where songs that start with that corresponding letter are located. Would only get you the first letter, but it's something at least?

[jimmynitcher]

Good idea but a lot of work - I'm lazy!

[madlab]

I made a MFL device for a friend of mine DJing with sessions up to 1000 scenes to look for scene names using a keyword and select the first one appearing.
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... e-explorer

[jimmynitcher]

Ah thats a step in the right direction, it looks great - don't suppose you have time to extend it to clips? I think it would be very popular!

Thanks

[TakeshisCastle]

Has anybody tried this stuff: http://www.az-labs.com/downloads/search-clip-name/

There is not much info, but it seems that it does exactly what the people in this thread are searching for. 9 EUR seems high (since there is so much free stuff on maxforlive.com) but fair if it does what it says (and performs well even with a set of 1000+ clips). But before I buy, I'd like to know if anybody else can verify that it works well (don't want that it crashes while I'm gigging).

Thanks

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

Yes, please. This would also be good for tracks and devices.

Let's say I want to edit a synth's eq, but I don't remember which track it's on - then I could just enter "operator", and have a list of the various Operator instances in my project. A double-click would take me directly to the track it's on.

This could be part of the browser search (ctrl+f). Along with clip search, big projects would be a lot easier to manage.

[TakeshisCastle]

So, couldn't wait for somebody's feedback and just went ahead and bought it, because I desperately need that shit.

I've tested it with my standard set of roughly 1200 clips and here are my first impressions:
- I've got a personal e-mail from the developer to thank me for the purchase and he showed interest in understanding how I will be using the patch and how he could improve it. Very nice.
- The initialization took a couple of seconds because it indexed all my 1200 clips.
- Once initialized, the search itself was super-fast (this was my biggest worry, that I would get CPU spikes or freezes whenever I wanted to search something during a gig). Works like a charm.
- No crashes or other issues so far (will use it during my next gig this weekend)
- The search itself has some nice features:
* I can search for terms that appear anywhere in the clip-name (this is perfect for me since I encode BPM information and pitch information in the clip-name "Trackname 120 BPM F#" and can then just search for 120 BPM)
* Results are shown while I type (I don't have to press Enter)

Something I've immediately missed: I wished I could trigger the clip right from the search screen (hope they will listen and add this to the device)

So, all in all totally worth the money (although I wonder why Ableton doesn't implement this kind of super-basic feature into the software itself). I hope I can say that even after the weekend...

@Idonotlikebroccoli: I understand your use-case but I hope they don't bloat this simple patch with this kind of additional functionality (but rather make a separate one), because looking for instruments / FX is not something I would do at all during a gig (all the stuff I need is mapped to my Launchcontrol + Launchpad).

[ToBe]

Hey - searching clips via a Text Pop Up and selecting AND even TRIGGER them is possible via this M4L device:
https://blog.abletondrummer.com/search- ... eton-live/