tanis wrote:B-Wise wrote:You can go into the clip editor & copy all data & paste it into the arranger. You'll have to do it 1 clip at a time, but once you get fast on the Force it's not that bad.
But that does not give you flexibility. If I have a section that is repeating and I want to make a change to that section and see it reflected in all the places it is being used (a typical use case with a DAW), I will have to go over every single place and apply the same change. It can get really tedious.
Never said it did, I was just letting the guy know that there's a faster way to copy clips to arranger.
What you want would be very efficient & is something me & others have been asking for.
Oh well, until then we must use what we have....but not always how they were intended.
Most people to me uses the Force sequencer the way it was intended, which IMO is not the most efficient way. I'm work on something called the "Clip-Bank Method". I'll make a post a more detail post later, but the basic concept is manually adopting Ableton's Arrangement/Sessions view on the Force clips-matrix:
*Keep in mind each Force track has 999 scenes/clips & clips are automatically named after the track name & the scene/clip number, unless you give it an custom name. So a track named Kick1# will create a clip named Kick1# 1 on scene 1 & Kick1# 2 for scene 2 & Kick1# 999 for scene 999.
This important to know for using this method*
-Divide the clip-matrix with a row of blank-clips. You can keep them nameless or whatever. Put these blank-clips on row 8 at first. All the clips above it is part of the clip-bank & clips below are part of the "Pre-Arranger".
-Make your clips in the clip-bank at first as normal, but do your sequencing in the pre-arranger by copying clips from the clip-bank.
You can copy that blank row of clips at the end of this pre-arranger to make another pre-arranger & can have a bunch of arrangements going on like multiple variations of the intro or whatever. Also if you make a new clip while in the pre-arranger remember to copy it into the clip-bank & make sure it has the proper name & number.
-Then you can make a main pre-arrangement with all the best parts of all the pre-arrangers & tweak some more & then record it to the Arrranger & or the resampler.
Hope you get the idea. If not, wait until I make that more detailed post or video. It's still a work in progress, but just breaking the clip-matrix up like that really opens up a lot. Without it, I feel like your force to commit to using the powerful clip sequencer as a linear sequencer which defeats to purpose.
