Follow actions - can't change tempo with scene's name

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soulata
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Follow actions - can't change tempo with scene's name

Post by soulata » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:48 pm

I sometimes use scenes with names like 126bpm to change tempo, which works great but...

if i need to change tempo somewhere in the middle of a song and don't have time to press the scene launch button (let's say during a sax solo with me playing the sax) the follow actions don't trigger the scene the same way.

the tempo stays the same even if scene name implies a different tempo.

workarounds?

thanks

k

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Re: Follow actions - can't change tempo with scene's name

Post by Per Boysen » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:29 pm

soulata wrote:e way.

the tempo stays the same even if scene name implies a different tempo.

workarounds?
k
Are you sure you're writing the follow actions into the clip launch window of the master clip where you typed in the new tempo? (I didn't know follow-tempo now works for master track clips - that's cool, if it does)
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Re: Follow actions - can't change tempo with scene's name

Post by soulata » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:17 pm

Per Boysen wrote:
soulata wrote:e way.

the tempo stays the same even if scene name implies a different tempo.

workarounds?
k
Are you sure you're writing the follow actions into the clip launch window of the master clip where you typed in the new tempo? (I didn't know follow-tempo now works for master track clips - that's cool, if it does)

uhm, nope. just in every track. i don't think you can do follow actions for scenes.

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Post by longjohns » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:27 pm

you could do follow actions on a control dummy clip MIDI track...

or record all this to the arrangement and automate the tempo there.

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Post by Tim Moore » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:39 pm

take a look at this topic, i have had the same problem and now i'm satisfied )
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

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Post by hambone1 » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:44 pm

I use MIDI-mapped chords in dummy clips to launch follow-actioned multiple scenes and other dummy clips simultaneously. Works great!

The only hard part is keeping everything organized! (Excel to the rescue...)

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