Adjust start/end/fade of multiple clips at once?
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 8:45 am
I'm on Ableton Live 10, on a Windows 10 machine. Perhaps someone here can answer a question for me.
I would like to know how to adjust the start-time, end-time and/or fades for multiple simultaneous clips simultaneously. In other words, in the Arrangement View, I would like to be able to highlight two or more clips which occupy the same time-range, and edit the start/end/fade of them all, simultaneously. This is something that I do regularly in other DAWs, and I "know" that it's possible within Live because it randomly just "sometimes" works -- but I can't figure out what conditions make it work.
The obvious answer would be: Select multiple clips which occupy the same time-range, and then edit the start/end/fade of any one of those clips, and all selected clips will be edited in the same way. This is the way it usually works in other DAWs. Very occasionally, like 2% of the time, it seems to work this way in Ableton. But most of the time, if I select multiple clips then try to edit one, all clips will automatically be de-selected except for the one I try to edit, and so only that one clip will be edited.
I thought, maybe I have to select all applicable TRACKS as well as the individual clips within those tracks? Because, you know, when you select multiple tracks in Ableton, they kind of act like they're grouped. For instance, if you select 3 tracks then enable Record for one of them, it will enable Record for all 3 tracks. But I don't get any more consistent results this way either. It very occasionally lets me edit multiple clips simultaneously, but usually doesn't.
The use-case here is pretty simple. I often record a single audio source using two or more mics. (Think multiple mics on an amp, or on an acoustic instrument.) Each mic has its own input on my audio interface, and thus each mic is recorded to a separate track in Ableton. I generally need to edit the resulting audio, either for comping or for some other reason. This entails editing every track for each mic simultaneously. The clips for all these tracks have to be edited as if they are one unit; they all have to stay in-sync with each other. It's easy to do this if I can highlight "a unit" of clips that go together, then simply edit the start-time or end-time or fade ONCE for the whole unit of clips. Most of the time, Ableton does not let me do this. Instead, Ableton usually makes me edit each clip for each track separately, which is a silly waste of time and a lot more strain on my mousing-hand.
Since Ableton DOES occasionally let me do this, I know that it's possible. Does anybody know the magic set of conditions?
I would like to know how to adjust the start-time, end-time and/or fades for multiple simultaneous clips simultaneously. In other words, in the Arrangement View, I would like to be able to highlight two or more clips which occupy the same time-range, and edit the start/end/fade of them all, simultaneously. This is something that I do regularly in other DAWs, and I "know" that it's possible within Live because it randomly just "sometimes" works -- but I can't figure out what conditions make it work.
The obvious answer would be: Select multiple clips which occupy the same time-range, and then edit the start/end/fade of any one of those clips, and all selected clips will be edited in the same way. This is the way it usually works in other DAWs. Very occasionally, like 2% of the time, it seems to work this way in Ableton. But most of the time, if I select multiple clips then try to edit one, all clips will automatically be de-selected except for the one I try to edit, and so only that one clip will be edited.
I thought, maybe I have to select all applicable TRACKS as well as the individual clips within those tracks? Because, you know, when you select multiple tracks in Ableton, they kind of act like they're grouped. For instance, if you select 3 tracks then enable Record for one of them, it will enable Record for all 3 tracks. But I don't get any more consistent results this way either. It very occasionally lets me edit multiple clips simultaneously, but usually doesn't.
The use-case here is pretty simple. I often record a single audio source using two or more mics. (Think multiple mics on an amp, or on an acoustic instrument.) Each mic has its own input on my audio interface, and thus each mic is recorded to a separate track in Ableton. I generally need to edit the resulting audio, either for comping or for some other reason. This entails editing every track for each mic simultaneously. The clips for all these tracks have to be edited as if they are one unit; they all have to stay in-sync with each other. It's easy to do this if I can highlight "a unit" of clips that go together, then simply edit the start-time or end-time or fade ONCE for the whole unit of clips. Most of the time, Ableton does not let me do this. Instead, Ableton usually makes me edit each clip for each track separately, which is a silly waste of time and a lot more strain on my mousing-hand.
Since Ableton DOES occasionally let me do this, I know that it's possible. Does anybody know the magic set of conditions?