Play two clips at the same time in same channel?

[Dexes]

I'm very interested in this (mainly because it's how I'm used to working - coming over to Live from Reason 4). For instance, if I have an instance of Battery 3 in a track, I'd really rather not have to make many instances of it just to be able to layer midi clips, when I'm using the same Battery preset for all of them - it seems like a huge waste of CPU resources. Audio clips, obviously you'd never need to play two in the same track, but it would be wonderful to be able to have layers of MIDI clips controlling the same VST instrument.

I hate quoting myself but:

...group 2 tracks [...] put the instrument on one track and leave the other midi track empty and select "midi to" the first track in the in/out dropdown menu.

Only downside you cant have any vst envelopes in the empty tracks, so you'd have to work with midi CCs (which isn't that bad as it gives you the chance to send absolute values)

[snakedogman]

I think the ability to play two clips (or more) in one track would be quite useful, at least for midi tracks. Esp for midi drum programming it would negate the need to have many seperate tracks if you want to have different drumsound have their own clips.
If say you have a drum part consisting of kick, hihat and snare and you want to make an arrangement where these sounds will play in different combinations, you need to create many clips now. One with just kick, one with kick and hat, one with kick, hat and snare etc...
Now you can split it up in one track for kick, one track for hat, and one track for snare and then have seperate clips for each, but with many drumsounds this becomes many tracks. But why not just have all these clips playing in the same track and have Live merge whatever midi is being output by the clips? It would save a lot of horizontal space in the mixer at least.

[pepezabala]

up until now you have to copy-paste into a new clip. Would be cool if you could select a couple of clips, right-click and "merge clips into new clip".