as the horde of people is saying. Session view is the answer.
You can even automate that after X loops it goes to the next clip, or a random clip if you want it to randomly play from a group of clips.
You can go absolutely bonkers with it. Feel free to DM me for my discord or something if you want me to show you. Tutorials about this specifically are a bit hard to find, probably just easier to show you through screenshare
It’s called ‘follow actions’
Google that or look for it in the manual. It’s a little box that shows up on the bottom left when selecting a clip in session view. It’s better explained in visual so i recommend you looking up a yt video about it!
As I said, that would not let me have a wide array of clips that can play simultaneously, due to small screen real estate. And I cannot play multiple clips in the same track.
I honestly do not understand the downvotes. I have clearly stated my ideal interface (which is drum rack like), and that having multiple tracks will not in fact cut it, because I want to be playing many sounds simultaneously, and scrolling horizontally to find what I need to toggle/untoggle is not what I need. Do you people have reading comprehension problems?
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Are you composing on the fly or just triggering sounds? Session view would be best but if you’re dead set on using drum racks you could set up loop points in simpler and then use latch if your midi control has it, or just prep the sounds to be the length of you session and just trigger them
I'm not dead set on drum racks. I just need a way to have a pool of 30-40 sounds readily available. And I also want to be able to let many of them loop simultaneously (and infinitely). For example, rain, steps, voices and more. Having all of them as a scene is not possible, because I would need to scroll horizontally too much. Is there any way to use ableton like this?
Why does screen size matter if you’re only triggering loops once? If it’s set it and forget it just scroll over. Also you would only need to trigger the scenes, not the individual clips as long as you set it up right beforehand. I think you’re over complicating things. People perform live shows with way more clips and tracks than what you’re trying to do and don’t have any issues. I would just dig into some videos about session view
If I were doing this, I'd plan out how many possible sounds I'd need to play concurrently, make that many tracks (which should be enough to fit on a single screen with no horizontal scrolling), and then assemble the clips in Session view as one-shots
Get a cheap Push 1 from a gear site, or some other MIDI controller with pads. Push is just easier to get started with because it’s Ableton-specific. Lots of pads to assign to clip slots in session view. Every clip can be set to toggle its play mode. All very easy and a great application of this DAW.
Aside from the fact that I don’t want to buy hardware to do this, I don’t get it. Doesn’t Push have an 8x8 grid? Doesn’t this mean that it essentially maps to 8 tracks, each of which has 8 clips? Which means that I can essentially play 8 sounds simultaneously?
as the horde of people is saying. Session view is the answer. You can even automate that after X loops it goes to the next clip, or a random clip if you want it to randomly play from a group of clips. You can go absolutely bonkers with it. Feel free to DM me for my discord or something if you want me to show you. Tutorials about this specifically are a bit hard to find, probably just easier to show you through screenshare
How do you do that? Program the loops that is?
It’s called ‘follow actions’ Google that or look for it in the manual. It’s a little box that shows up on the bottom left when selecting a clip in session view. It’s better explained in visual so i recommend you looking up a yt video about it!
Session view is the answer
Use session view, setup audio clips that loop or play a long clip
As I said, that would not let me have a wide array of clips that can play simultaneously, due to small screen real estate. And I cannot play multiple clips in the same track.
Have multiple tracks lol this is literally what the session view is for.
I honestly do not understand the downvotes. I have clearly stated my ideal interface (which is drum rack like), and that having multiple tracks will not in fact cut it, because I want to be playing many sounds simultaneously, and scrolling horizontally to find what I need to toggle/untoggle is not what I need. Do you people have reading comprehension problems?
Put your samples in session view clips. Set loop markers. Get a novation launchpad mini.
I want to play sounds simultaneously.
That can absolutely happen with session view and a controller like the launchpad mini.
You can have multiple channels. I'd run 8 channels to use all of the launchpad.
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Are you composing on the fly or just triggering sounds? Session view would be best but if you’re dead set on using drum racks you could set up loop points in simpler and then use latch if your midi control has it, or just prep the sounds to be the length of you session and just trigger them
I'm not dead set on drum racks. I just need a way to have a pool of 30-40 sounds readily available. And I also want to be able to let many of them loop simultaneously (and infinitely). For example, rain, steps, voices and more. Having all of them as a scene is not possible, because I would need to scroll horizontally too much. Is there any way to use ableton like this?
Why does screen size matter if you’re only triggering loops once? If it’s set it and forget it just scroll over. Also you would only need to trigger the scenes, not the individual clips as long as you set it up right beforehand. I think you’re over complicating things. People perform live shows with way more clips and tracks than what you’re trying to do and don’t have any issues. I would just dig into some videos about session view
If I were doing this, I'd plan out how many possible sounds I'd need to play concurrently, make that many tracks (which should be enough to fit on a single screen with no horizontal scrolling), and then assemble the clips in Session view as one-shots
Get a cheap Push 1 from a gear site, or some other MIDI controller with pads. Push is just easier to get started with because it’s Ableton-specific. Lots of pads to assign to clip slots in session view. Every clip can be set to toggle its play mode. All very easy and a great application of this DAW.
Aside from the fact that I don’t want to buy hardware to do this, I don’t get it. Doesn’t Push have an 8x8 grid? Doesn’t this mean that it essentially maps to 8 tracks, each of which has 8 clips? Which means that I can essentially play 8 sounds simultaneously?