Month: April 2012

Ableton follow actions are time based, not position based.

Did you know that ableton Live’s follow actions are time based rather than being “position” based like most of the other values in the clip view.

This means that, if you have a long clip, and then setup a follow action at say bar 128, then start playing the clip (from 1.1.1 and then ‘skip forward’) the follow action will NOT trigger at 128.0.0 – because it’s _time_ based – and since you skipped forwards, the follow item will trigger 128 bars after you first hit the “clip start button”.

I found that quite confusing.