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hey...

heres my question, couse i could not figure this out on my one...:

i want to hit knob A and the playback in the slot...should start on the one....
if i hit knob B playback should start on the two...

it works, when i put the same file into different slots, and configure the startingpoint manually...

is there any easyer way to do that, especially with using only one file and one slot?

thanks for any kind of help

greetz blablub

find the smallest common launch increment

MIDI Map -> Clip Automation -> Start time

Awright.
I Love LIVE. I keep finding new and fantastic ways to use it in performance. But in trying to automatically xfade two scenes, I'm hitting a snag. This is the scenario, in it's simplest form:

Scene A: 8 bar clip, w/no envelope info. Play for 3 minutes (e.i.)
Scene B: COPY of 8 bar clip, with a 50 BAR Mixer Volume fade envelope.

the problem is: When I start scene B, the envelope starts more than halfway through the volume envelope - which means the newly launched clip is totally or almost totally already faded out. I can't get the vol env on the 2nd clip to start from the beginning.

This is unacceptable behavior!

Anyone know what's going on here?
Well OK. Thanks in advance.

Powerbook G4 867; LIVE 5.2.2

I found it easier to automate the crossfader rather than volume envelopes.

I have 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128-beat A>B and B>A automatic crossfades assigned to BCR buttons. It's a simple matter of making sure the crossfader is assigned to A or B deck (also with BCR buttons), launching the incoming scene (with a BCR button), then hitting the chosen crossfader button.

Instant quantized super-smooth crossfades. I've got far better things to do than move a crossfader manually, but if I want to, there's a BCR rotary encoder for that. Feeding the position back to the LEDs around the rotary encoder makes it easy to see the crossfader position without squinting at Live's tiny crossfader graphic.

hambone1 wrote:I found it easier to automate the crossfader rather than volume envelopes.

I have 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128-beat A>B and B>A automatic crossfades assigned to BCR buttons. It's a simple matter of making sure the crossfader is assigned to ....

OK, cool. How do I automate the xfader? I'm still in 5.2.2; haven't come across that one yet. Does the xfade automation live in each clip, or in some master...place?

BTW, I figured out what I was doing wrong: I had the fading clips in legato mode; the envelopes were jumping to the current clip playback position.

Interesting. Thanks for the other tip, tho...

Use dummy clips and the IAC bus. No crossfader automation needed.

Assign a CC to the crossfader, then draw various crossfader curves as CCs in MIDI clips. Assign buttons to the MIDI clips, and route the MIDI track as remote.

Excellent! I should have thought of that myself.

I can think of a boatload of things to do with that trick, thanks!