There should be an option to negate the need to save the pattern by ctrl-click.
I want to make my patterns and move on to the next without forgetting the need to do this, and losing all my edits. The extra step to save is cumbersome, unnecessary and bad for workflow.
Hi, this action was carried over from Loopmix, where it was implemented that way based on changes and popular demand. If you have any other suggestion, let us know!
May I suggest that it be made an option to not have to ctrl-click. That way everyone is happy.
I mean, I’m just trying to get into a flow. I have my pattern triggers laid out.
The way it is now, while the song is playing, and after making an edit, I have to frantically reach down to the pattern note to control-click before another pattern is triggered. As opposed to making the edit and just being done.
Doesn’t make sense to me.
Maybe this works for Loopmix or for some users, but I seem to remember not liking this behaviour in loopmix too. I believe I made a similar request about it.
It annoyed me so much, I stopped using it. It makes it very confusing.
Have you tried to right-click on the remix key after making an edit?
Well that’s pretty much the same as ctrl-clicking. I still have to find it, and before another pattern is triggered, or my edits are lost.
Instead of being forced to save each edited pattern, before volatile deletion occurs upon retrigger, step edits should be cached in the undo, which it doesn’t appear to do.
May I put it like this.
If i have a loop going in the DAW, and i want to edit the current playbeat pattern, I cannot allow the trigger note to loop round or it just reverts to it’s previous state when the note is triggered again.
So I cannot even press play until I make edits, LOCATE the correct remix key, or vice versa (but dare not trigger the wrong remix key!) and save it, all in silence, and THEN audition it.
I get that there is perhaps more emphasis on the randomization aspects of the tool,
but this particular aspect - the core workflow, is definitely not a step sequencing workflow I can live with. It negates “in the moment edits”, or at least makes it stressful and uncomfortable.
I know of no other sequencer that will delete ones edits on loop.
It should be edit-DONE.
Don’t like it? UNDO.
This has caught me out a couple of times., in fact just now when I triggered a scene with a different clip triggering a different remix and my edits were lost in the previous pattern. I think an option would be good so the pattern sticks but I can see a case for not wanting that, eg I don’t like the edit and I’ve now lost my original one (I guess undo works here).
I’ve set up a series of trigger remix clips in my template but I’ve turned off loop in the clip. That way if I’m working on an 8 bar loop this will continue but when the playhead comes back round it won’t trigger the pattern again. No need to trigger it again if it’s already playing.
Glad to hear that i’m not the only one that is affected by this. I’m amazed this was implemented, and by popular demand?!
I remember now, with Loopmix, how every time I pressed stop/play, my edits would disappear. It drove me up the wall, and left me very confused. It’s exactly the same here.
Imagine if you had to save your ableton set everytime the loop came round on a clip.
I really do need to stop and start the transport, while keeping my work, y’know?
Ok, someone might not like what they did, and want to revert, but afaik there is no undo in the step edit. Implementing that will simply solve it. I can do that in the free community built step sequencer in Reaper (which i’m afraid is still pulling me back), so I expect it here.
To be expected to save after every single edit is absurd to me.
You’re absolutely right, just tested Stop/Start and the edit is wiped. My kind of workaround with not having the clip loop is a hack really as this would cause issues with automation. But it doesn’t solve the issue of Start/Stop on the transport. Just tested Stepic and edits are automatically saved.
I’m on board with this, edits should be sticky/automatically saved.
Ah yes, “automatic” and “sticky”. Those are the words i was looking for.
Perhaps this could be solved by adding an “Edit” button along with the “Generate”, “Clear”, “Clear All”, etc. buttons and implementing undo
We’re reviewing this to determine the best way to implement it.
Very glad to hear you are reviewing this. I look forward to seeing it implemented. Please keep us updated.
We’ve added a mode that automatically saves remix edits without needing to right-click or Ctrl+Click. This option can be enabled/disabled in the settings and will be available in the next update.
This is brilliant! Thank you
wonderful news, thank you.