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I cant seem to have audio overlap each other on the same track. Sorry for the ignorance if live cant do this, but i thought it could. Bascially, I bounced a pad chord progression to audio and left a bar of runoff for the release. But when I copy the pad on the same track in the arrange page to put next to the first one, it cuts the relase off and shortens the clip. Is there any workarounds besides a seperate audio track, or am i missing something obvious?

THanks

One clip at a time per track. If you'd like to hear the tail - you'd have to use two tracks.

Man, that sucks. I know it is not your average DAW, but at least in any of the other ones you can copy each part on the same track and arrange them as you like.

you care to explain to me how two sounds can occupy the same space.

im not aware of any way this could ever be possible

what hardware mixer will allow you to send 2 signals through one channel?
yea you can do that with flexible routing, but live has flexible routing as well.
you have an unlimited number of channels, use them

simply use the simpler.

I think i maybe wrote what I was asking wrong, or you misinterpreted it. In another sequencer for instance when you bounce midi to audio, on the audio channel I can take the audio loop and opt+drag to repeat it. I also have the ability to move the same audio clips to overlap so the release of the synth is still going when the next clip starts (I could be dreaming this, so correct me if I am wrong). When I try to do this in live, it cuts the release off the first sample by shortening it. If I am wrong, I apologize, I am not trying to say it can be done in live or any other DAW, I thought maybe it could, or a workaround was possible.

Thanks

In other host´s you can do that, like tracktion or samplitude as I know it´s like you want.
In Live put them on 2 tracks, overlap them as you need and sounds fine, then do a resampling of the 2 tracks inside Live, then you have one new audioclip that you can put in 1 track.
The only solution in Live!

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Steve

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I wish live could do this.
Does anyone know anygood plugins or softwares for this
overlap recording.

I know tape echo and tape dalay effects is the closest.

thanks for clearing that up. Sorry for the headaches, I am still learning.

Thanks

why do people always want live to behave like other platforms?

bensuthers wrote:why do people always want live to behave like other platforms?

familiarity.

AdamJay wrote:

bensuthers wrote:why do people always want live to behave like other platforms?

familiarity.

Familiarity is the bane of innovation.

this is something that is avaialble in Logic, and if possible there should be possible here.... jut saying

And with all due respect I wouldn't say that the neglect of providing this feature here with Live is encouraging innovation, I would say the fact its possible in logic and not here means Logic is more innovative in this particular case.

When dropping a sample or moving one inside the same track where there are other samples there and moving it to the right place and I peverlap another sample it shouldn't delete the overlapped part. Granted you can always move the new sample or instance over and resize the existing one but it is extra steps ..... Logic has simple option you can choose on how that process behaves: overlap or replace might be one other. Simple to implement im sure.

To have to take 3 extra steps to do the same thing you can easily do in one isn't innovative IMO.. I also either have not found or noticed that there are no SNAP parameters available in Live which can be annoying in Logic if you forget to check or set, but still nice to have options.

TO be fair Ive noticed the innovation and ease of certain things here compared to Logic and appreciate them. Still learning Ableton but this is something I cant see that would help anyone be more original or whatever..... just extra steps that all to get to the same point.

I also do believe familiarity is a key consideration that all DAWs should want to incorporate especially if its a feature that makes workflow faster and more simple which I see Ableton is pretty much doing across the board except with this particular feature .... but hey what do I know????

Live's entire system depends on the "only One Clip can be playing at a time in a track", it is the most important rule in Live.