GP controlling Ableton CLIPS

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Hey, GPs!

I have a query I just can’t get my head around.

OK… So I use GP to select clips in Ableton Session View… All is fine and I just press play on my controller and off we go…
So. I have a song in GP with 3 variations under the song title “Rumbas” and variation titles, Rumbas 01, 02 & 03.

Within Ableton, I have 4 clips that are contiguous. (First clip named RUMBAS, which is the name of the song. This is a click LOOP until the song actually starts. When we’re to start the actual song, I press play on the controller and a click SEQUENCE (NOT LOOP) is activated and plays on until it ends and waits on the next clip which is now a click LOOP. The loop plays until I press play again and it goes on to the next LOOP SEQUENCE until end of song…

If I do this sequence without touching anything but the play button on the controller, all works perfect.
When do things happen that I don’t want them to? When I select any variation in GP WITHIN this song… As soon as I select ANY other variation, the clip selector in Ableton returns to the First clip of the group (RUMBAS) and I cannot continue the clip sequence in order. If I press play it will execute the second clip by default instead of the 3rd or 4th that it is programmed to…

So. The question is : Is there a way to avoid GP from selecting the first clip each time I change variations and just let Ableton carry on the clip order as programmed?

Thanks in advance to everyone

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How do you trigger the Ableton clips from GP?

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Do you mean, How do I select the clip from GP or how do I “play” the clip?

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Ok, my fault
How do you select the clips

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I’m using Thaddäus Weindl’s video instructions

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Maybe there is a more simple way to do the same job as I am ONLY using ableton as a click player with loop capabilities when needed. I’m not using ANY other function or sounds within Ableton

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That‘s me :wink:

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So you are not selecting clips you are selecting scenes

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Oh wow!!!

Nice to put a face to your nick. :wink:

Yes. I am selecting scenes. Sorry. My mistake this time

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Are you in SetList mode and each song part uses a different rackspace?

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Can you upload the Ableton live set and a small gig file, so I can check what is going on?
And the M4Live device you are using?

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What I have done different to your video is that I don’t use the play button WITHIN GP. I assigned the play button on my Arturia controller directly to the scene play button in Ableton.

I am in setlist mode and in THIS particular case (RUMBAS song), the variations all use the same rackspace and ONLY changes my SongLyrics pages. So what happens is that when I change to variation 2 or 3 to change my score page, it resets my Ableton scene to the first scene within that group of scenes for this particular song

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I would like to reproduce,so please upload

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what do you need ? both gp file and Ableton file?

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Yes the gp file, the Ableton Live file and the M4L device you are using

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I don’t know what M4L device you mean. I followed your video up until the Ableton scene selection worked… but don’t know what M4L device you refer to

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In my video I used a M4L device.
What version of Ableton are you using?

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I’m using ver.11. I am using the same M4L device you suggested in your video. I downloaded the M4L patch from the forum back then
PIANOPAUL.zip (14.9 MB)

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Ok, I will find out

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In what Ableton track are you using the M4L device?
To be sure please upload that device file also, thx
In what GP Song do you face the issue?