loop markers

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SongCarver
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loop markers

Post by SongCarver » Fri May 10, 2002 9:25 pm

here are a few things that need improvement:

-Make all the loop markers much easier to use, currently using them in real-time is really difficult.

-To be able to hit a button to "repeat those last four bars" would be great. - how many times have you wanted to repeat the last four bars/ beats of a long sample/song?


Make the transpose section performance oriented, currently it is studio oriented - it is a small knob that is not automatable, and moves in semitones, with no way to jump step-wise. Great for set and forget, but a challenge for live performance.

For a start, the centre reset button should be big - you don't use that much in a 'studio' context but you use it heaps in a live context. The knob should be midi controllable, or at least be able to lock to a scale or something.

Midi transposition would rock.

monolake

transposition

Post by monolake » Mon May 20, 2002 3:46 pm

regarding transposition :

we are working on a more performance orientated version which includes acess via MIDI controlers, propably not clip but trackbased. ( so if your clip is -6 semitones per default it will stay -6 semitones if your adittional transposition goes back to normal...

rob / ableton

ringmod45

Post by ringmod45 » Mon May 20, 2002 6:09 pm

songcarver wrote:
-To be able to hit a button to "repeat those last four bars" would be great. - how many times have you wanted to repeat the last four bars/ beats of a long sample/song?


great suggestion, here's another. why don't you have knob or dial with a range around it with a 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 32 scale and a push button style button to engage the numbers of bars you wish to have repeated next to the knob.

if you add a double click function to the same push button and you double clicked it,the number of repeated bars would loop until the push button was double clicked again to stop the looping,then it finishes its last repeat and goes back to normal track play.

to know it's in single repeat mode you could highlight the push button in bright yellow. to know it's in loop repeat mode you could highlight the push button in bright orange to differenciate between the two modes.

l8r,
RM

ringmod45

Post by ringmod45 » Mon May 20, 2002 10:50 pm

>why don't you have knob or dial with a range >around it with a 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, >24 and 32 scale

or you can have a knob and a 2 digit square field beside the knob and the push button next to it. this way all you have to do is turn the knob to the number of bars in the 2 digit field you need, click once to repeat the number of bars you have chosen or double click it to set it loop repeat. simple, i hope this gets included in the next release.

RM

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