Cutting clips in arrangement view

[diego vega]

Hi,

I have an answered question from some time ago that I always forget to ask... Let´s say I´m starting a track first by making loops/clips in session view. So I hit record and start playing the song and recording the arrangement. After I finish I have all my clips and basic arrangement in the arrangement view correct? How can I go and cut up the clips so for example, channel 1 has drums, and i had an 8 beat long clip repeating for some bars, but i want to cut that up in individual 8 beat clips so I can edit each one individually. I know I can manually go and resize the clips making them smaller and copy pasting them. But is there a faster way to automatically cut them up into a specific size or by selecting with the loop brackets the division point and then selecting some command?

Thanks.

[longjohns]

you can either use the insert point, or a time selection,

then use the 'split' command (ctl + E)

[diego vega]

Hi, thanks for your help. What do you mean insert point? Thanks.

[Tone Deft]

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[longjohns]

I just mean that when you click on a point in time, you get a cursor.

that.

[Pitch Black]

Or, you can "lassoo"/click-and-drag over a bunch of clips and hit cntrl-E, which will split them to individual clips.

[doublestop]

What frustrates me about Ableton's Arrangement vs. Session view.. is this. What if i Highlight a section of my Arrangement clip and then Snip a loop from a track in Arrangement view... Now I want to Copy that snipped Audio into a clip in Session view! When I try this.. IT COPIES THE WHOLE DAMN Clip!!! Not just the snipped portion. I don't want the WHOLE Arrangement clip in my session clip.. I want to copy just the snipped clip I made in Arrangement view so that it is now a clip in Session view!
The only annoying work around is Then I have to make a loop inside of the session Clip... Which is just a royal pain!!! Why bother cutting up arrangement clips if I can't simply copy a SPECIFIC arrangement clip into session view and not the entire thing?

Tell me, WHY this is not possible in Ableton?

Jeff

[invisibledan]

What frustrates me about Ableton's Arrangement vs. Session view.. is this. What if i Highlight a section of my Arrangement clip and then Snip a loop from a track in Arrangement view... Now I want to Copy that snipped Audio into a clip in Session view! When I try this.. IT COPIES THE WHOLE DAMN Clip!!! Not just the snipped portion. I don't want the WHOLE Arrangement clip in my session clip.. I want to copy just the snipped clip I made in Arrangement view so that it is now a clip in Session view!
The only annoying work around is Then I have to make a loop inside of the session Clip... Which is just a royal pain!!! Why bother cutting up arrangement clips if I can't simply copy a SPECIFIC arrangement clip into session view and not the entire thing?

Tell me, WHY this is not possible in Ableton?

Jeff

I think if you consolidate (cmd+j) that snipped bit of audio it becomes its own stand alone clip, not still part of something bigger, which can then be copied over to session.

[Easaad10]

Right click - crop clip
is what worked for me.

(Ctrl - clic in Mac).

In arrangement view, I did edit - split on my large clip to divide it into sections.
Then, I copy - pasted the section I wanted into another (piano) track.
On that pasted section, I did right clic - crop clip.
Then copied that, and pasted it to a cell in session view.

Not in the least intuitive, but so far that's the best way I made it work.
Bests.
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[valouxxx]

That's it:
Arrangement view
- select loop
- split
- crop
Session view
- drag and drop new clip you'll find in the current project/samples/processed/crop in a track cell
- select wrap the sample in the the clip view
- select "loop"
- play it!

[prismaticspray]

Thanks for this thread. I found one other option to add that works for me: "Create" > "Consolidate Time to New Scene".

What this seems to do is take any number of tracks from the arrangement view in the current loop and paste them as clips in a new session on their respective tracks.

This is 100% what I was hoping for - take a live jam that's recorded in arrangement and take multi-track slices out of it to make scenes in session view.