I edit up a fancy drum break in arrangement out of one sample and I want to use this edit in session, so I can trigger my funky cut-up beat as one clip.
This shouldn't be a problem because it is only one clip, but with different start markers for each instance,
The wish: what I want to do is this ...
select an edited part
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta1.gif)
drag it to session
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta2.gif)
drop all those clips into one slot
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta3.gif)
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta4.gif)
clip view should now show all the edits on one clip view
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta5.gif)
My drum tracks that use breakbeats are invariably made from chopped up bits, the clip offset isn't good enough to do this - the only way is in arrangement slices .. but without meta clips I cant use arrangement sliced beats in session.
what happens right now If I drag the selected area to session is this
![Image](http://www.timeshard.com/img/nonsense/ableton-meta6.gif)
which is stupid in 2 ways,
1: a billion clips making up 2 bars
2: it doesnt do the follow actions automatically, and that means I have to type in all the 'follow' lengths of the clips manually, by flipping back to arrangement and writing them down !!!
now that is dumb.