different beat signatures in one song, loose a few beats?

murphf · Post by **murphf** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:17 am

I have a track (arrangment) in which I loose 2 beats in a break - don't ask me why, it simply sounds good this way. The next bar starts at the 3rd beat of the previous one - which is the 1st of the next one.

Not realy a problem (although I have to set the grid at 1/2), except that after the break I can no longer launch clips from clip view that are singronized with the beat (a plain 4/4 beat). They start at the 3rd beat instead of the 1st.

Is it possible to have one bar of 2 beats in an arrangement, and all others of 4, or to simply cut 2 beats, so ableton knows where the ONE of the next bar is (that is, that the 3rd beat of the first bar is in fact the 1st of the next?

udp · Post by **udp** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:36 pm

Unfortunatlely, there is no easy way to change time signatures within Live. Maybe sometime in the distant future (Live 25?) we'll get this very simple yet elusive feature.

morg909 · Post by **morg909** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:22 pm

Has anyone found a way to deal with this? Are we missing something obvious?

I've got quite a few tracks that have a break that is only 2 beats long.

udp · Post by **udp** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:36 pm

Haven't tried this, but what if you left those 2 beats (3 and 4) empty while working in session view, then when editing in arrangment view you simply cut that time? I'll do some experimenting.

eddit · Post by **eddit** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:27 pm

Aren't you able to do some of these things by changing the time signature and quantization of each clip?