Abelton - Launching clips

 The Clip Launch settings in abelton are very useful.

 

If you can't see the Launch Box, click the "L" in the bottom left corner.

 Under launch Mode, there is a dropdown box:

1. Trigger

2. Gate

3. Toggle

4. Repeat

 

 In trigger mode the clip will keep playing till you stop it.

It will loop indefinitely until you press the stop box.

 

In Gate mode the clip will only play while you are holding the play button. as soon as you let go the clip will stop.

Remember to check you global quantization settings.

 It will play / stop according to these settings

 

 

Toggle mode ... similar to trigger mode, except to stop you press the "play" button again.

 

 Repeat: according to the quantization settings, the clip will repeat.

If the quant setting is shorter than the time it takes for the whole clip to play

it will jump to the start and repeat.

 

 Legato

Legato mode ensures that whenever playback of a new Clip is triggered, playback starts at the Globally relative position within the triggered Clip