In my case, the reason to use the Clip Scrub control as described yesterday is to save space in the Session view.
In an earlier tip, I talked about breaking a song into 4 clips to have unique launch points for performance. The problem with having every song broken down into 4 clips is my Launchpad. I find that if I don't leave some blank rows in the Session view, the clips are too hard to keep track of when looking at the 8 x 8 grid of the Launchpad.
Or, in pictures, this:
...is much harder to manage during a performance than this:
To create a blank row, I've gotten rid of the first clip ("Operator - Top") and moved the remaining three yellow clips up. If I need to play this song from the top, I just launch the clip titled "Operator - Break", crank my nudge knob to the left and I'm at the top almost instantly.
WHY SCRUB?
In my case, the reason to use the Clip Scrub control as described yesterday is to save space in the Session view.
In an earlier tip, I talked about breaking a song into 4 clips to have unique launch points for performance. The problem with having every song broken down into 4 clips is my Launchpad. I find that if I don't leave some blank rows in the Session view, the clips are too hard to keep track of when looking at the 8 x 8 grid of the Launchpad.
Or, in pictures, this:
...is much harder to manage during a performance than this:
To create a blank row, I've gotten rid of the first clip ("Operator - Top") and moved the remaining three yellow clips up. If I need to play this song from the top, I just launch the clip titled "Operator - Break", crank my nudge knob to the left and I'm at the top almost instantly.
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