Ableton Live: How to dump midi notes from sliced sample?

Audio Plugin Hosts and other audio software applications discussion
Post Reply New Topic
RELATED
PRODUCTS

Post

Hi. Are there any way to dump midi notes from sliced sample? In FL's Slicex I can get them from "Dump score to piano roll" button.

It's used for recalling the original drumming pattern on piano roll: note length and timing.

Post

Maybe this? (I only have Intro, so I don't know how well it works):

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/conve ... o-to-midi/

Post

Thanks, I know I can slice drum loop into drum rack and it dump the score on piano roll. But how can I retrieve the original score after I modified them? Should I search and find the original loop and go through same process or manually put notes on the piano roll every time I want the original score?

Post

The simple solution to that is obviously to duplicate the clip before you start editing :)

Otherwise, no, it doesn't hold some sort of buffer where it keeps the original timings of the sliced loop.

Post

BDeep wrote:The simple solution to that is obviously to duplicate the clip before you start editing :)

Otherwise, no, it doesn't hold some sort of buffer where it keeps the original timings of the sliced loop.
Thanks!

That's kinda disappointing. I like Live's non-destructive workflow approach. But loop slicing is slightly tedious.

Post

So you want to get back to the initial state?
You can always select the channel, CTRL C, then hit Undo all the way until you're back to the original score. Get and process what you need. Then Paste the buffer to a new channel. You have both states now.

Post

zeep wrote:So you want to get back to the initial state?
You can always select the channel, CTRL C, then hit Undo all the way until you're back to the original score. Get and process what you need. Then Paste the buffer to a new channel. You have both states now.
It won't work existing projects?

Post

When you save on Live, it throws away the undo history, it doesn't get saved (that's a annoying gotcha in Live).
Better to save before modifying it.

Post

Once you know that this is how it behaves it's not that much of an issue I think. You can either hit ctrl+D to duplicate, or select Current Project in the browser and drag the clip over there when you first create it, then you'll have a copy at all times.

But for existing projects your pretty much out of luck I'm afraid...

Post Reply

Return to “Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.)”