Midi.Edit one clip edits all of them

[Bassfaceus]

HI all

Me again.

I have a series of Midi clips whiuch contain kik snare etc

which i have copied to successive bars.

Whats hapenning is that if i modify a kik or snare in the first bar

it is changing it in all the bars.

Must be a switch im missing somewhere.

How do i stop this from happening?

 

[Byron Dickens]

Turn off ripple edit.

[Bassfaceus]

ripple edit is off.

this is whats happening: create one  bar midi clip 

kik on beat one snare on beat 2

copy midi clip 4 times.

go back to 1st midi clip delete kik from beat one

and it deletes the kik on beat one for all subsequent clips

i dont remember this happening befor 

im sure i have something i need to turn off or on

[Lord Tim]

Are they linked clips, perhaps?

[Xoo]

Linked clips.

[Bassfaceus]

Thats it!

Linked clips

just did some experiments 

and created a midi clip and copied several times and they all had 

yje linked icon in the top left

once i unlinked them they became seperate clips.

Great..but how do i stop this linking behaviour from being the default?

Thanks again

[Bassfaceus]

OK 

IM getting the hang of this.

few questions..

can i select various midi clips and link them

or can it only be initiated at the copying stage?

with midi clips it seems only the events in the clips respond to alteration not the clips themselves

i,e if link several clips i cant select one move it and the others will follow.

also i cant work out the benefit of having linked audio clips.

im willing to read about if some one can point to some reding material.

thanks again

[msmcleod]

Linked clips allow you to change one clip, and the change will happen in all of the others.  It's useful when you want the same thing repeated many times, and you don't want to have to edit the same thing in all of the copies.

The whole point of linked clips is that the contents of them remain exactly the same - so you can't select lots of clips and link them.  Linking can only be done at paste time using the "Paste Special" command.

To unlink them, select the clips you want to unlink, right click and select "unlink".

Linked clips is a pretty old feature, which in many ways has been superseded by groove clips / step sequencer clips.  However whereas groove/step sequencer clips can be "rolled out" to many repetitions, a linked clip has the advantage in that it can be placed anywhere and changes will still be kept in sync.

The main use case for linked audio clips is repeated copies of a drum loop.

[David Baay]

3 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

... a linked clip has the advantage in that it can be placed anywhere and changes will still be kept in sync.

The main use case for linked audio clips is repeated copies of a drum loop.

Another advantage of linked clips is that you can unlink one of them at any time to introduce a small variation without affecting the linkage of the others.

[chris.r]

For me best fun starts with rolling out linked clips .

Edited February 11, 2023 by chris.r