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Hi guys
I use Ableton live for backing tracks.
My songs are devided in all their musical parts.
They will be activated by a midi track, (excepted, when I want to leave a looping scene, for example after an instrumental solo. Then I have to press enter)

What I would like to know:
In a running (looping) scene I would like to activate or deactivate clips (for example a horn section). But this has to be strictly in time.
For example my loop is 8 beats.
I decide live that I want the horns to start with the next repetition of the loop.
Because I am very busy with playing my instruments I don't like to start it at a special time.
I just want to do it by pressing a controller at a ANY TIME in the running loop.

Unfortunately activating a clip by midi is not a feature.
Does anyone has an idea how to realize this?

Ok. I found an answer
Dont know, if it is the best, but at least it works.
Steve

You should use Ableton Live in Scene (Performance mode) and arm your desired clip by pushing a key on Ableton Push or some other MIDI controller, then it plays in the next start of the loop.

AAdel wrote:You should use Ableton Live in Scene (Performance mode) and arm your desired clip by pushing a key on Ableton Push or some other MIDI controller, then it plays in the next start of the loop.

Yes fine.
But how to arm a clip by midi?
I mean, I can play it by midi, I can make different controls by midi. But arming? How?
I choose Midi and then a lot of fields are blue.
But which one do I have to choose?

You might also want to take a look at follow actions.

Are we talking about Arming a track? Enabling or Disabling a clip? Or launching a clip?

Hi arretx
I'm not quite shure about the meaning of "arming" a clip.
But as AAdele wrote:

AAdel wrote:... and arm your desired clip by pushing a key... or some other MIDI controller, Then it plays in the next start of the loop.

...is exactly what I want.
I mean, a scene (with all clips of the same length) is running in loop mode.
And what I want is adding a clip that

AAdel wrote:... plays in the next start of the loop.

I would call it enabling. But if it is done by "arming" it, fine.
Don't matter 'bout the word, but about the result