play one track , and stop another

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brian sansone
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play one track , and stop another

Post by brian sansone » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:36 am

so this may sound as if a scene launch is what im looking for, but its not ; bear with me.

In session view :

How can I STOP any clip currently playing track # 1 by launching a clip in track # 2.
AND visa versa.


The idea here is to simplify a DJ set.
Instead of having 12 drum beat clips all in one column, have 6 beats on track #1 and 6 beats on track # 2.

So if a clip in track #1 is playing, and I launch a clip on track # 2, the track #1 clip stops playing.
That way I could see all 12 clips on my Push, without having to scroll up and down; and I only need to
hit one button. ( as opposed to hitting the clip on each track )

man I hope that makes sense to someone.

Thanks
Brian

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by Tarekith » Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:18 am

The only way I can think of would be to put them on different scenes and launch the scene instead of the clip.

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by chapelier fou » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:20 am

Easily done in max 4 live if needed.
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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by oddstep » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:07 am

could you set the clips' launch mode to toggle and press both clips at the same time?

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by brian sansone » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:41 pm

robertaplant68 wrote:
brian sansone wrote:bear with me.
Man, I hope he is not hungry. be careful of those claws. :D

Bad grammar drives me nuts.
In English, no one has perfect grammar. It can be quite easy to stump an English professor.
My usage here , though, is correct.


From Websters:
bear. verb \?ber\. : to accept or endure

brian sansone
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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by brian sansone » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:44 pm

oddstep wrote:could you set the clips' launch mode to toggle and press both clips at the same time?
yea this was one of my first solutions. Not ideal, but a last resort.
The end goal would to only press a single button.

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by brian sansone » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:49 pm

chapelier fou wrote:Easily done in max 4 live if needed.


There must be someone out there who has had the same idea as me.
I would consider myself an intermediate/advanced live user. Max, however, is over my head.
Do you have any ideas on which particular max device would get me there?

I need the solution to work like a midi script; as opposed to exhaustively setting manual mappings.

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by S4racen » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:41 pm

I've got a pair of devices, a master and slave.... PM me your email address and i'll send you a dropbox link...

You set how many clips you'll want playing at once in the master and then drop a slave on every other track...

Cheers
D

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by brian sansone » Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:33 pm

S4racen wrote:I've got a pair of devices, a master and slave.... PM me your email address and i'll send you a dropbox link...

You set how many clips you'll want playing at once in the master and then drop a slave on every other track...

Cheers
D

Very cool. yea I saw an Isotonix advertisement. I havnt picked their software up yet, but i'm definitely adding it to my arsenal soon.

Thanks

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Re: play one track , and stop another

Post by S4racen » Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:59 pm

Did you not get these? I just needed an email to send them....

Cheers
D

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