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Select multiple clips in session and without having to play just click the menu item to "print" them in arrangement view. Sometimes you know what you need or want in a mix and it would be a quick way to thrash out some structures.

Still would like extra arrangement or session views too. It would be cool to have different mixes within the same project for easier archiving

I completely agree!

I've been wanting something like this since day one. There could also be an option for scenes, which is what my primary use case would be. Here are my ideas:

1. A dialogue box where you can define the order of scenes, how many bars they should play, and then press "print".
2. Print options per scene: automatic or explicit
2.1 Automatically retrieve a scene's duration from its longest looped clip, and click the scene's print button to move it into arrangement.
2.2 Type something like "X bars" into the scenes' names, like you can do with BPM and time signature, and click print.

It feels unnecessary to record a real-time "performance", when all I'm doing is just triggering scenes in a pre-determined order.


I know you can drag scenes onto the arrangement by pressing tab, but this approach has two problems:

1. You need to drag out all of the shorter loops. If you have 4 clips (1, 2, 4, 16 bars), all of the shorter ones have to be adjusted separately to play 16 bars. This would need to be adressed in a "print to arrangement" solution.
2. You -have- to drop the top clip onto the correct track. In a large arrangement, if you're viewing tracks 40-50, and the scene you're dropping only has clips on track 1-5, you need to scroll. Why doesn't Live simply remember which tracks the clips belong to?