Inability to do something on Ableton driving me mad - please help!

Hardware And Production
#1

Hi folks

I use Ableton to make very elaborate DJ mixes - can be thousands of individual clips in the set.

One of the things I would love to do would be to be able to copy parts of those mixes, together with automation, and paste them into another set while keeping the automation. When I paste into a different set, all the automation has disappeared.

Doesn’t seem to be possible - have tried lots of different suggestions - it seems like the kind of thing that should be possible. Would save me hours and hours of heartache if I could crack this!

#2

Only thing I can think of is to export the section to audio and then import it into the other project.

#3

I think saving the clips as .alc files might preserve the automation. It might not be possible at all. It’s been a while since I opened Ableton.

#4

Are you talking about copying part of the session into the same Live project, or into a completely new project?

#5

Thanks. That’s actually the workaround I use but it’s far from ideal as all the automation data is lost which sucks.

#6

That’s very interesting indeed. Looks like it might, at the very least, copy over all of the automation from a single channel - would definitely be a major step forward.

Will play around with it - thanks so much!!!

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#7

Into a entirely separate project (whether new or existing).

Thanks to everybody for the responses!

#8

Yeah it’s not great. Annoyingly, it feels like something that should be easy enough to do.