Can someone explain the correlation between views?

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Eza
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Can someone explain the correlation between views?

Post by Eza » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:49 pm

Coming from a cubase background it's a bit chaotic to get my head round. I sit there and do my stuff in arrangement, but how do you get it to session view and what happens? what's the relationship?

then i have a few loops dragged into session view, run them all for a while then flip to arrangement and it's still going but there's nothing there.

i need to get this sorted, it's literally doing my head in. once this is sorted maybe i should be on my way.

thanx, and excuse my stupidity

peeddrroo
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Post by peeddrroo » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:53 pm

a small hint: try dragging clips from one view to the other trough the icons on the top right (the one that shows 3 vertical or horizontal lines). see what happens. that might get you started.

the dur
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Post by the dur » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:30 pm

The Session view (the one that shows all the clip slots) works like the mixer in most DAWs, but with some built in sampler capabilities (clips, and their settings). This is a great view for performance and improv because you can see all the clips, and trigger sets of clips as scenes, etc, etc

The Arranger view is like the window where the audio is displayed is most DAWs. This is the view where you can record tracks of audio (based on the routings you configured in the Session view), and also record your performance with clips. Like other DAWs you can drag audio around, and automate effect/mixer aspects.

Guest

Post by Guest » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:26 pm

In order to capture what you're doing in the Session view you need to arm some tracks in the arrangement view and press record. Your clips will record into their corresponding tracks as you triggered them, then you can go back and edit your performance. You can arm multiple tracks, and have some of them record input from your hardware synths and etc at the same time. Have fun!

Eza
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Post by Eza » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:12 pm

super. think i get that aspect now. let the games commence :D

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