L6: Fire new clip while monitoring waveform of playing clip

danatk · Post by **danatk** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:41 pm

Is there a way to fire a new clip while maintaining the waveform view of the currently playing clip? In Live 5 you used to be able to scroll the scene selector up and down with a midi controller and the waveform display would continue to display the playing clip on that track. In live 6 it changes to whatever scene is selected (this also makes rapid scrolling through the scenes a bit jerky as the waveform display constantly changes).

The only workaround i can find is to fire the new clip without first selecting it, and the only way to do this is by using the mouse to hit the clip launch button or using a key command. Using the mouse is obviously a pain, and assigning key maps to every clip cell you might want to use is ridiculous!

The scroll/select and fire method in Live 5 is superb, and central to my DJ style...it allows me to view the waveform of the playing track and easily drop the next clip in. It suprises me that Ableton will change such a feature without the option to revert to previous behaviour.

Any ideas?

Dan

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:20 pm

Welcome!

Turn off Select on Launch from the Launch Preferences (Manual, p. 88)

danatk · Post by **danatk** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:28 pm

hambone1 wrote:Welcome!

Turn off Select on Launch from the Launch Preferences (Manual, p. 88)

hi there

I'm not in front of live right now, but i don't think that makes any difference. This just says whether a clip gets selected if you launch it. I want to stop a clip getting selected when you move the scene selector (like it used to work!).

thanks for taking time to help though...

Dan.

benjaminFlack · Post by **benjaminFlack** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:48 pm

hambone's advice will do exactly what you're looking for. if you have the currently playing song already selected with the waveform displayed, and then you fire antoher clip with the "Select on Launch" option disabled, the current displayed waveform will stay there.

danatk · Post by **danatk** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:05 pm

benjaminFlack wrote:hambone's advice will do exactly what you're looking for. if you have the currently playing song already selected with the waveform displayed, and then you fire antoher clip with the "Select on Launch" option disabled, the current displayed waveform will stay there.

No that's not what i'm saying, it's nothing to do with Select on Launch. I'm talking about moving the scene selector, you know, the horizontal highlight across the clip grid. Since Live 6, when you move this it changes the clip view....it didn't do this before, the clip view would stay on the playing (selected) clip.

This was great because you could scroll the scene selector to the scene containing your next track without disturbing the clip view. This meant that you could monitor the waveform of the playing track, have your new track ready, and fire it with the 'Track Launch' key command/midi assignment.

Now it's impossible to do this and there is no simple workaround - IT SUCKS THAT THEY CHANGED THIS!!! PLEASE GIVE THE OPTION TO REVERT THIS BEHAVIOUR!!!

Dan.

danatk · Post by **danatk** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:41 am

bump!

the more i use live 6, the more this is pissing me off!

someone from ableton help!

Autoreverse · Post by **Autoreverse** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:18 am

I got the same problem! I just bought Live 7 and discovered that I can't scroll scenes in the session view while inspecting in the clip view the track that's playing (like it was in vers. 5). It's simply embarrassing cause it's so an essential feature. I mean the problem here is a little deeper: when you got many tracks scattered through many scenes you easily became lost. What clip is playing? And at what point? So you press the Track Status Display bar and, yes you can visualize the one's actually playing but you also loose the position of the scene selector you where in (that's maybe for launching a clip 250 scenes above) and this is a problem. Not to mention that when you return at that clip 250 scene up you loose visual contact of the one's playing. And this is a mess. Tomorrow night will be a mess.
I just can't believe no one mentioned this elsewhere in the forum. (Or is it just me that I can't find a solution?)
Someone can un/confirm this pls?

--Glitch

Autoreverse · Post by **Autoreverse** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:55 pm

Ok, I unconfirm myself. Since now the Track Status Display is midi mappable and the scene selector only display whats in the selected track, everything works just fine! It's just a different approach and it's not evident since you work with it a little. The gig went perfect and now it's much better to keep everything under control. Tnx ableton!