Time line display, track tempo changes, reset 0:00
I have been trying and failing to create or also find a device that functions as a time live offset tool/display. What I need;
A timer that I can offset to a different start / 0:00 time within an Ableton Project, and can also follow tempo changes. Uses would be, a song starts later within the session so I want to reset the timer to the start of that song so I can measure time from the beginning, eg. goto 5:16. There are also tempo changes in the song.
Any attempts I have made either use devices that rely on the Transport object or use the API get messed up when there is a tempo change.
My next attempt will be to try and create a SMPTE-based audio track and read the time from that, but not sure how that will work with tempo changes. And this is not an ideal solution, but can't find any other.
Has anyone come across a device that can do this, or has any insight into a working solution?
live + tempo change - any kind of real time progress sync - no way.
This is what I was thinking, but based on what research I have done it seems it's something people look for. I was hoping someone came up with some sort of solution. Like absolute time from a certain start point.
The only way I have found to display absolute time is to create a video, for my usage, 1 hour long and burn a timecode display on it. Then import that into your session and display it to see the exact time.
For my use case, I also needed the start position offset from 0:00, so I just move the video to my desired start time and I get absolute time.
Seems crazy that this is the only solution (that I could find), but I have tried many options using the Transport object, the API plus translation, with no success. A bpm change totally messes up the timing.
For anyone working with video, it's a nightmare.
that can serve as visual orientation, but not for any kind of
event trigger.
I don't think this will change soon, because if ableton developers wanted to provide real time progress, they could have done it long ago.
if you look in arangement view, set display to whatever else
than beats, time display changes with tempo.
conclusion : info is there, but not the will to give access to it.
I don't see Live as mature DAW for audio-video production,
on could take it that many used it because of somewhat working
max within it, after the death of Pluggo.
With sudden and surprising birth of rnbo which might extend it's current limited functionalliy in the future, maybe we get Pluggo ableton free again.