Ableton Forum

I just got Live, and I've been figuring out how to use it and working on adapting some already finished songs so I could use Live to perform them live.

I'm having this problem when I try to copy MIDI notes from one clip and paste them into a new, empty clip. They never paste in the right place. For one thing, they always paste into negative measure numbers (ie. below zero), and for another thing they don't paste in the same relative position. Say I was trying to paste one measure of a 4/4 kick pattern, it wouldn't paste on the same beats, it would be off by some seemingly random amount.

Also, slightly unrelated, where do you see the position of a MIDI note? Like in Measure/Beat/Tick.

For perspective, I'm used to MIDI sequencing as it is in Digital Performer. That's what I write my music in - I got Live just for live use.

is there a reason why you can't just paste the clip itself ? that will copy all contained midi data exactly the same, then you can edit/change and it'll be a separate clip....

I can do that, and that's what I started doing when the first way didn't work. I had a long MIDI file from DP that I opened up, and I was splitting a track into different clips. My first thought was to copy what I wanted from clip A and paste into clip B, rather than duplicate all of clip A and then delete what I don't want.

So even though I can do what I want a different way, it doesn't make sense does it? If you paste something into a new clip, it should at least paste into the same relative position in the measure, and at least not before measure 1.

You can also copy your midi file in the arrangement view, then cut everything in parts and bring the parts back into session view. Like this you don't have to duplicate them and with CTRL-E or apple-E it goes pretty fast.