Meter changes

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udp
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Meter changes

Post by udp » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:09 pm

Any idea on how to automate time signature changes? I really think the next big dance craze wil be mixed meter funky latin punk trance. No, really I'd like to do some classical writing, but would like to change time signatures part way through a song. Changing tempo can be automated, how about meter?
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Post by udp » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:35 pm

After scouring the manual, and posting here with no luck, I'm going to assume that meter changes can't be done with out saving different meters as different live sets, rendering, and finally assembling. Thanks though.
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Post by ekko » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:40 pm

The only thing I can think of offhand is to run Live as a Rewire slave to a host that can handle meter changes, such as Cubase.

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Post by yogitengu » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:36 pm

I asked the same question once before because I was working on something that flipped between 4/4 and 7/4. Someone suggested that if you just make your global meter 1/4 - I didn't try it because I finished it off in PTools (where i started the job). Could be worth a try. Also, someone suggested putting the time signatures where your scene names go, but I couldn't get that to work.

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Post by udp » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:15 am

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try rewireing into Tracktion and see where that goes. I have fired up Tracktion since upgrading to Live 4, hopefully it works. 1/4 seems kinda tedious.
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Post by yogitengu » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:37 am

1/4 seems kinda tedious.
Yeah, that's why I finished the job in Protools!

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