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You have to understand the following points:

1.
the value in the follow action time field defines WHEN the follow action takes place in bars-beats-sixteenths AFTER the clip started playing.
That means, if you start the first clip, which contains the follow action, at bar 1.1.1 and the next clip shall start at bar 3.1.1 then the time field has to be set to 2.0.0. (two full bars after bar 1.1.1 = 3.1.1)!

2.
The follow action happens X bars (see time field) after the start of the clip.
If you skip forward Y bars in the clip it will still start after X bars and not after (X-Y) bars.

so, no bug present in follow actions.


best,
dfi

Hi,

Yes, thanks for the info. I got word back from Jorg on it and I understand the skipping ahead issue. I was just doing that to get through the clips to see if there was a problem but instead I was causing a problem. However, going back to setting the length properly and letting them play through allowed the action to work as expected.

Thanks,

Mike

I've been having a major problem with follow actions on my live laptop. I've got my songs set up in groups of scenes that work through the same every time. Its been working with the rest of the band I play with for over a year now, but about two months ago something weird started happening. It started to skip forward - on more than one clip - way before it should. Bearing in mind this is a set of clips that has been working fine for months - and I've changed nothing in the follow action settings. It started to happen more often - and yesterdays rehearsal was a complete nightmare - it was skipping forward too early on almost every song. We have our biggest gig yet today - I think I'm going to have to take all the follow actions off during sound check and wing it. Not cool.

I experience a somewhat similar issue last night.
With a midi track and an internal softsynth, launching the clips in session view from a scene; When the first clip ended and launched to the second clip, the second clip started at bar 13 even though the start and end markers and the loop marks where all set at the beginning and the end of the clip.

Watching the clip while this happened you could see a line at bar 13 that looks like the line that occurs when you set the cursor into the midi note grid (not sure what the correct term for this area is).

I couldn't find any way to select this "line/cursor/marker" and remove it. I saved the midi clip as a midi file and reimported it. The problem disppeared. I seems like some internal corruption with the meta data that Ableton creates arround the midi data. I would be neat to have a tool that exposes this data so that it could be edited. Sort of like WordPerfect reveal codes (oh oh everyone knows how old I am now)

Happy to send the file if support wants to look at the anomoly. BTW this is Ableton Suite version 8.1.I'm at work so I can't check but I did an update at the beginning of the summer so it's reasonably up to date.

David