Follow action to next clip AND change tempo?

danshaw · Post by **danshaw** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:57 pm

Hi
Is this possible, to use a follow action to move the the next clip down and also change the tempo when it hits the new clip?

Thanks

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:00 pm

Yes it sure is.

danshaw · Post by **danshaw** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:02 pm

care to elaborate I cant seem to work it out...?

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:12 pm

Tempo and time signatures can be changed by the clip name.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:19 pm

Moody, you just pwned yourself.

clip names can't do that, just scene names.

look it up in the manual.

OP - not really but with Live there are always workarounds.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:23 pm

type in the scene name the tempo as in: 118bpm or 124bpm, etc.

everytime the scene changes it will take the tempo (all the clips in that scene) of the typed bpm.

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:27 pm

Tone Deft wrote:Moody, you just pwned yourself.

clip names can't do that, just scene names.

look it up in the manual.

OP - not really but with Live there are always workarounds.

Thanks for the correction. I always mix up those names.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:35 pm

just playin'

page 94 of the Live 7 manual (pardon the weird characters, it's a copy and paste from the pdf.

Scene names can be both descriptive and functional; if Live detects a viable tempo and/or
time signature as part of a scene name, the project will automatically adjust to these pa-
rameters when the scene is launched. To assign a tempo to a scene, select the scene and
rename it with a viable tempo (e.g., 96 BPM). Any tempo can be used, as long as it is
within the range allowed by Live's Tempo control (20999 BPM). To assign a time signature
to a scene, rename the scene with a meter in the form of x/y (e.g., 4/4). Any time
signature can be used, provided it has a numerator between 1 and 99 and a denominator
with a beat value of 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.
Tempo and time signature changes can coexist within a single scene name, and can appear
in any position as long as they are separated from each other by at least one character. For
example, 2/4+108 BPM, 72 BPM;7/8 and 60 BPM Chorus 3/4 are all scene names
that will cause simultaneous meter and tempo changes.

danshaw · Post by **danshaw** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:43 pm

Yes I can make it change by renaming the scene name, but when you follow action from one clip to the next it doesnt involve the scene launch.

Only if you launch a whole scene with bpm as its name will it change the tempo.....???

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:45 pm

I must subconsciously want it to be a clip feature as well.

Surreal · Post by **Surreal** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:52 pm

but if you used midi yoke (or midi pipe, or IAC etc) and a dummy clip...

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:56 pm

Surreal wrote:but if you used midi yoke (or midi pipe, or IAC etc) and a dummy clip...

exactly what I was thinking, dunno if the OP wants to take the red pill, it's a bit if a pain to set it up for one .als and not have it make midi feedback in another setup, crashing Live.

basically, don't use Live in the way he's thinking, change the game plan.