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Ladies and gentlemen, hello.

I'm not even that new to Ableton live but a complete rookie at session view. My aim is to record instruments etc. into session view and create scenes and play them sequentially, so pretty basic!

But when I record clips into session view and try to play them back, the playback lasts a split second and then cuts out. This must be related to bar length or whatever of the clips in Session view.

So where do I find this?

My screen looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0snl ... UNqbm9TRUE

Thanks!

Try changing your launch mode to "trigger." Sometimes gate will stop the clip when you let up on a control button sending both the down (start) and up (stop) signal to the program.

Sageman, that worked, great!

So the next thing I want to do is I want clips in a group to trigger the following one automatically, and I'm managing to do that with follow actions. But I just want them to trigger when the clip reaches its end, not after a certain amount of bars (7 bars in the screenshot below, for example).
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0snl ... VJzRC1fVTA

Is there an easy way of setting that up?

Why dont you want to dial in the number of bard?

Cheers
D

Why don't I want to? I guess my music is so damned organic I don't need bars. Hahaha. No, I just think it's so obvious that it should exist and its quicker than the bars. Plus I use live instruments, I usually use my foot/ brain not a metronome.

Well if you have maxforlive, this does it...

http://isotonikstudios.com/isotonik/mod ... es/follow/

Cheers
D

Wow, that seems to be exactly it! Thanks, I will check it out!
Dave

Interesting approach... I like a click myself but to each his own...

What I would do is first crop your audio file so that that the clip starts on the 1. This is just a thing I would do so that I can pin point where I want the follow action to occur easier.

Then I would change the "follow action" from 7-0-0 to 5-2-0 which should trigger the follow action at bar 5's mid point which is very close to where your clip ends (I think.) You may have to adjust it just a little but it looks close on what you sent.

Try that and see if it works.

Number of the Bard sounds like a hardcore folk album

@Sageman or others who might know:

I tried doing what you said and basically it works but with one killer flaw:
For example on this clip (see link below), when it gets to the end of 2:3 as specified in the clips follow action, it then hangs for about a bar before actually playing the next clip.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0snl ... mlWRDM5Vjg

Here is a screen grab of the next clip:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0snl ... Dh6SlJibFU

Any ideas why it's doing this? I'm set to trigger mode and global quantization is on 1/32.

Thanks!