Better Automation Envelope drawing capabilities

Share what you’d like to see added to Ableton Live.
Post Reply
DJSK
Posts: 228
Joined: Thu May 12, 2005 10:23 am
Location: Florida U.S.
Contact:

Better Automation Envelope drawing capabilities

Post by DJSK » Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:23 am

I would really prefer if it was easier to draw automation in lives arrangement. Not that it's supehard or anything. I just feel it would be nice if you could have a feature that would make the lines snap to a grid. That way you don't have to always zoom in so close and move the mouse so slowly.

theo
Posts: 17
Joined: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:02 am
Contact:

Post by theo » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:57 am

an easy way to make non-linear envelopes would be cool too...

Machinate
Posts: 11648
Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:15 pm
Location: Denmark

Re: Better Automation Envelope drawing capabilities

Post by Machinate » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:12 am

DJSK wrote:I would really prefer if it was easier to draw automation in lives arrangement. Not that it's supehard or anything. I just feel it would be nice if you could have a feature that would make the lines snap to a grid. That way you don't have to always zoom in so close and move the mouse so slowly.
WORKAROUND TIME!
Here's a quick way to make live envelopes snap to grid:
Switch to draw tool, set the quantize to 16ths or something.

If you want the envelope to peak at bar number 2, for instance, use the draw tool to draw in a single "block" at the end of the first bar.
Switch back to regular cursor and remove the first point made by the draw tool.

There.
mbp 2.66, osx 10.6.8, 8GB ram.

Post Reply