I'm wondering about the same thing as this person:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/commen ... mixer_bus/
As nice as the new Splice integration is, in some ways it actually seem less useful than the previous admittedly clunky and inconvenient Splice Bridge. The reason is that with Splice Bridge, the preview could be routed to an actual track, not just the preview channel. This had at least two significant advantages:
- You could hear the sample with processing applied, including any group processing you might have in place. Going through preview, there's no processing, so samples will often sound out of place, even if they might work well in the context of the actual project.
- The rhythmic preview only offers bars and repeated half, quarter, 8th, and 16th notes. This makes it difficult to preview e.g. backbeat sounds (typically on 2 and 4) or hats or percussion on up-beats. With Splice Bridge, you can use a delay to move sounds to the correct beats (e.g. set a clap to half notes, then delay by a quarter to put it on the backbeat). With the new preview feature, that's not an option.
Has anyone had any luck addressing these issues with the new integrated preview? Or is there just no way to effectively preview e.g. backbeat sounds, or preview a sound in the context of an existing mix?
Semi-esoteric questions like this tend to not get answers (the Reddit thread linked above being a case in point). I certainly don't help with that much myself, because I don't post every often. But, given the ubiquity of Ableton and Splice, it seems like people must have run into the issue of effectively previewing sounds in the new system, so I'm curious what people's experience has been with that. Is anyone here finding the new preview system very useful?