Now, if you want to have some tempo indication there's many ways to achieve that: - create a clip that's better sounding than the metronome, and set its follow action to 'stop' after the number of bars you want. I mean, if i went to such a concert, i think i wouldn't even wait for the fourth click, and leave the room. How many of you want to hear while they are on stage the beautiful sound of Live's metronome prior to starting a tune? If I've missed it and this "feature" is actually situated somewhere on the interface, this letter is proof of my total ignorance of Live4, at this moment - and may I be excused, please?Ĭould you just make something clear guys: musically speaking, and for the math-heads among us "in the negative".
I've had Live4 for three days now and already this lack of a "count-off" has truly become my one and most important aggravation with the program - it pisses me off! Being a performer as well as a composer I NEED a count-off that's as easy to handle as pushing a Start or Stop button and not a convoluted off-hand rocket-science technique that only makes a musician's life harder than necessary.Ĭome on Ableton! In the control-bar, the "Positions" available should also be allowed to be read in the "minor-mode". I mean every "other sequencer" in the world has instituted bars in the negative! Ahead of the music or deep inside, way in the middle as simple lead-in. I'm certain they will look into it in the future and come up with a simple programming formula that will allow us, more traditionally trained folks, to perform a simple count-off. It's hard to believe they've simply left it out, it must be something deeper - designer's philosophy or something or the other. And this says a lot about where they're coming from because their creation (which I truly admire by the way) is more about assembling and moulding bits and pieces of musical elements than about Music per-se - with a capital M. The programmers at Ableton's have forgotten one very elemental and essential musical tool namely accessing the bar lines within the negative domain. but we "street and home" musicians need the time to grasp a "breather" before making the plunge into what is sometimes called the "Unknown". well, symphonic orchestras are perhaps an exception because they're following a "director" and have most probably sufficiently rehearsed and heard the music to know how it should sound at the onset and what to do about it. Remember this is Live "version 4" we're talking about, right? There are no words or excuses for this ommission!Įvery performing "live" group or "live" musician (almost) always uses the method of counting off as a lead-in into the actual performance (3/4, 4/4, 6/8). The topic is the "count-off" in Live4, which is sorely missed.Where, when, what, who and why !? This is principally directed to the Live programmers and other folks who may want to chime-in on this "count-off" topic, which in my humble opinion is in real need of being developed and applied within this wonderful and beautiful program - Live4 should be accessible to all sorts of musicians: the ones made of flesh and bones and who wear calluses on their souls and fingers and are in dire need of a decent count-off, as well as the virtual ones, (or) should I call them musical assemblers, architects, construction workers? They don't need any advance warning and just dive-in. and, after having said Wow and Oh-my-God half a million times I find it time to react to this count-off-metronome discussion. I've just bought-registered-installed and fired-up Live4 a couple of days ago - I'm totally new to it - so bear with me please.
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