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HI,

I've been trying to get the 'rename clip' feature to work in Live 4. When I select a clip, drag it to the scene and try to perform CTRL + E to rename the clip nothing happens. I can rename the clip in the browser by doing this but can't rename it in the scene view. Does anyone have any idea why this would not be possible?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to take advantage of the BMP change function when you launch the clip by renaming the clip eg (88 BPM)

Thanks
Bri...

You cannnot rename clips "in place" in Live 1,2,3,4. Renaming a clip is possible in the clipview top left, where you also can change the color. Cmd-E creates an edit in the arranger or adds/removes the stop button in a session slot.
Since cmd-E sometimes does structural changes and sometimes does renaming (track header, browser) which is pretty inconsistent, we came up with a unified renaming command in Live 5. It works directly on a session clip, arranger clip, browser entry, track header. It is cmd-R. (Render to disk has been shifted to cmd-shift-R.)

Robert Henke
Ableton

brianroche wrote:...by renaming the clip eg (88 BPM)

Hi Brian, just to clarify, you rename the SCENE, with XXXbpm, not a clip in order to change the tempo on launch of that Scene.

HTH
p

Hi guys,

Thank you both for the replies, this clarifies things for me somewhat. Now if I could only get it to work.

I just gave it a shot, renaming the scene itself and launched the clip but for some reason the tempo did not change.

Here's what I did, I selected the scene and hit CTRL + E to rename the scene itself. Loaded my clip and launched it. The overall project tempo did not change. Then I started to think that there might be something wrong with the number of digits supplied for the tempo and the case sensitivity of the BPM but that didn't make any difference either.

Am I being really stupid about this and missing something blatantly obvious?

Bri...

are you listening man?, you can't rename clips using Cntrl-E, didn't you read the post above you?

Ok, I figured it out. Sorry for the confusion guys. It's my stupidity. I had some confusion about what a clip and a scene and chanel were. I went back and re-read the manual again for clarification.

Thank you both for the info, I really appreciate it!

Bri...

when renaming the scene that you want to change the tempo of, make sure you begin your name with 'the bpm' that you want, so name it something like 120 blah blah

peace