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what is the best way to do this?

If I understand you - you are trying to trigger a loop every 4 bars.

You can do this many ways: Here are 3

(1) Manual
The easiest would be to edit your clip in an external so it is actually 4 bars.

(2) Automation
Record the triggering of the loop all the way through the track.
Then record the track activator (speaker) going on and off when you want it (ie. every 4 bars). You could also use the track to automate this in the arrange window.

(3) Arrange window
Take the clip move it into the arrange arrange window and duplicate it every 4 bars. Use the split command to do this.

thanks for a good reply!!

So am I correct in understanding that in Live 2.0 there is no automagical way to take a 1-bar loop, and just get it to place once every four bars (i.e., play for the first bar out of four)?

Open up your audio editor, copy the part 3 times,silence the 3 parts,save.

Kerrydan wrote:So am I correct in understanding that in Live 2.0 there is no automagical way to take a 1-bar loop, and just get it to place once every four bars (i.e., play for the first bar out of four)?

There are a lot of ways to do this. Which is most
natural depends on how you are working.

You can do this pretty easily by
pasting your loop into a section of the arranger.
select it, plus four silent bars, and rendering
those four bars to disk.

Or you can record your bar followed by 3 bars
silence direct into a clip in the session
view. Should be pretty easy if you set
the quantization to one bar.

yon / ableton

what sequencer are you using right now to do this with, and what is the technique you are using, the same thing should work for live.

kerrydan i have asked for this in a long list of suggestions sent to ableton last month, i called it retrigger quantization and it seems it would sit beautifully under the launch mode in the clip view... hopefully we see something like this soon, as i like the concept and would use it a lot. YES i do know how to accomplish this now in a wave editor, but it seems super simple to implement into live, so i asked anyway.

Fun stuff.
Chris_borgia