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The title of the topic speaks about itself.

Multiple-takes: record between loop points only where time selection is (thus separate Time and Loop Selections are needed)

Comping: some basic multi-takes editing

Just do It.

Please. Please add track comping. Please.

Its called session view. Look into it.

jbodango wrote:Its called session view. Look into it.

Well not really... You can do multi-takes in both views, but doing quick comparisons and sewing together a proper take from multiple separate takes is a pain. And creating a comp take like this in session view for a vocal track for example is not practical at all.

it would be nice, when recording in session view, if you could set ableton to make a new clip after a specified amount of bars, and the new clips would somehow stack up so you could comp them. I'm just not sure how this would be implemented into Live without bloating it a bit...

n8tron wrote:it would be nice, when recording in session view, if you could set ableton to make a new clip after a specified amount of bars, and the new clips would somehow stack up so you could comp them. I'm just not sure how this would be implemented into Live without bloating it a bit...

Maybe you could "unfold" any clip in Live, which would expand the contents of the clip in "comp view". Like unfolding a group track, but vertically. Same would work in Arrangement view. Would be quite cool actually, but I don't know how it would function with non-multitake clips...

posssu wrote:

n8tron wrote:it would be nice, when recording in session view, if you could set ableton to make a new clip after a specified amount of bars, and the new clips would somehow stack up so you could comp them. I'm just not sure how this would be implemented into Live without bloating it a bit...

Maybe you could "unfold" any clip in Live, which would expand the contents of the clip in "comp view". Like unfolding a group track, but vertically. Same would work in Arrangement view. Would be quite cool actually, but I don't know how it would function with non-multitake clips...

That's a great idea. Maybe the comp view could also be an editing view as described here: http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=149683

I think all this could be down in the clip window at the bottom.

Definitely, it can be done in a new separate instrument that allows for voice/instrument recordings. This would give some additional benefits when it comes to manipulation (e.g. built-in Melodyne engine). And it would be the most less disruptive option to the overall workflow of Live.

Now recording a rock duet called 'jesus is my girlfriend' and I sure miss that. I hve to go back and forth betwen arrangement and session to store takes and edit them without cluttering the arrangement with lots of useless audio tracks.

William wrote:Please. Please add track comping. Please.

Yes.

EX wrote:

William wrote:Please. Please add track comping. Please.

Yes.

Double-yes.

+1

Not generally a big fan of Logic, but the way they do comp tracks is pure awesome.

+111

+1000

So much time lost to split your takes, create new tracks for preview , define sections, group yours different "takes tracks", etc ...

And there's no samples markers (to defines sections) as an alternate solution (like "take1 / take2 / etc").

I'm trying ableton and I a bit sceptic about moving from my DAW to Ableton 'cause of the lack of some features : limited drumrack/simpler (envelopes, view), no sample editing, no well-managed multi-takes capabilities, no loop markers, can't freeze multi-output VSTi, etc. Of course there're also great features but ... Wait and see.

+1 million