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Hi there!

When I'm DJing in live, I have an enormous set of 1000+ clips. This obviously bloats the session size and makes loading take quite a while (20+ seconds).

I'd love it if I could use my controller to add saved clips from the browser to existing tracks. As of now, if I double click a saved clip, it *always* creates a new track, which takes ~1 second. Since I have existing tracks set up and routed precisely how I want, I wish I could load a clip directly onto an existing track without dragging and dropping.

My suggestion for implementing this (if it doesn't already exist) would be to make a clip slot a possible hot-swap target, so when load_item is called on a BrowserItem, it's just added to that clip slot.

My motivation for not just dragging and dropping is that I use an external controller, so I would write a RemoteScript to add the clip to right track when a button was pressed.

This is so close to working being possible! Any tips?

Try this.

Drop an instrument rack into a Midi track. Drop a sampler into the instrument rack. Drop the samples into the sampler Zone tab. In the Zone tab, divide up the Selections in the chain selector so none of the chain selector sections overlap. Map the chain selector to the Macro 1 knob on the Instrument Rack and make sure you set a Min Max for the Macro Setting so your knob only counts the actual number of chains you divided the zone into.

Put a clip in the track and plug in any old Midi note. The note must be the same length or longer than any sample it's going to fire in the Zone tab on the sampler.

Map the Macro 1 knob in the Instrument rack to a physical knob, or use the envelope on the clip in the track to automate selection of the corresponding zone in the sampler that has the sample you want to play.

Set the chain on whatever slot you want. Fire the clip. Move the knob, fire the clip. New sound.

If you desire, you can control the Macro 1 knob selections from a separate track by using the IAC Bus and mapping a MIDI CC # to the Macro 1 knob in the Sampler track's instrument rack.

It's the same idea as creating a drum rack with 16 slots, each with 128 samples loaded that you can dial through to get just the right drum sound at the right time.

Automation is awesome.

Hi - while this sounds like a neat technique, not sure it's applicable to my question.

Anyone have any ideas specifically about how to add clips to a specified clip slot from the browser, to keep live session size lower for sets like mine with (9000!) clips.