From the course: Ableton Live 9 Tips and Tricks
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Combining Follow Actions and dummy clips to create playable effects - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live 9 Tips and Tricks
Combining Follow Actions and dummy clips to create playable effects
In this project I'd previously created four dummy clips to control four different states of processing, one dry-- or no processing at all--and three others with different effect device combinations. (music playing) The action produced by triggering each clip is immediate, but what happens after that trigger is very much dependent on you? The Clip Loop feature is active on all four dummy clips. Looping the clip means that each would provide continuous processing until another clip is launched. But sometimes I know in advance exactly how long I want a certain effect sequence to last--for example, this dummy clip here called Chorus Verb. Occasionally, I might be inclined to let this effect go on for a few measures, but more often than not, I just want to drop it in for a little while to create a transition between sections of my arrangement. As my project is set up right now, this would require two triggers: one to activate the effect and another to return to the dry state. (music…
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