Anyone else having trouble with this "design feature" in Live 6? I'll simplify the problem for easy illustration.
My snare drum is sequenced in Impulse and lands on beat 2 and beat 4 of the bar. Imaginative snare pattern, I know.
I want to record it into audio in the Arrange view, so I create an audio track, route the output of the Impulse to it and hit record button on the track. So far, so good.
The snare drum doesn't come in until bar 33 of the song and so rather than start recording from bar 1.0.0 and record 32 bars of silence, I locate the song to bar 30, hit play and, just before the first snare hit, I drop into record. The snare drum part gets recorded.
But here's the thing - when I open the new audio part I just recorded, the snare hits don't line up with beat 2 and beat 4; they are now at beat 1.90 and 3.90 [or something].
I realise this is because because I dropped into record at an arbitrary point instead of at the start of the song or dead on the start of a bar, but I'm at a bit of a loss to work out why Ableton have decided to make things happen this way.
Each midi or audio clip in the arrange view seems to have its own local beat grid which bears no relation to the master "song" beat grid, and so, unless you record every part from the very beginning of the song there is no way of knowing which bar or beat of your arrangement your are editing just by looking at the timeline at the top of the clip.
I can't always record stuff from the beginning of a bar because sometimes I just want to drop in on the fly to catch something which is happening spontaneously. I realise there is a workaround by selecting the part and selecting the empty space to the previous bar start and "consolidating" to make the part start on a bar, but I don't want to be dealing with "workarounds" to be honest.
Is there anyway to toggle the timeline in clips in the Arrange view between "local" and "master" or is this just another unfuriating "idiosyncracy" of Ableton Live?
Thanks.