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CHAPTER 12. LAUNCHING CLIPS 158
The Velocity Amount control allows you to adjust the effect of MIDI note velocity on the
clip's volume: If set to zero, there is no inuence; at 100 percent, the softest notes play the
clip silently. For more on playing clips via MIDI, see the respective section.
12.5 Legato Mode
The Legato Mode
Switch.
Suppose you have gathered, in one track, a number of looping clips, and you now want to
toggle among them without losing the sync. For this you could use a large quantization
setting (one bar or greater), however, this might limit your musical expression.
Another option, which works even with quantization turned off, is to engage Legato Mode
for the respective clips. When a clip in Legato Mode is launched, it takes over the play
position from whatever clip was played in that track before. Hence, you can toggle clips at
any moment and rate without ever losing the sync.
Legato Mode is very useful for creating breaks, as you can momentarily play alternative
loops and jump back to what was playing in the track before.
Unless all the clips involved play the same sample (differing by clip settings only), you
might hear dropouts when launching clips in Legato Mode. This happens because you are
unexpectedly jumping to a point in the sample that Live has had no chance to pre-load from
disk in advance. You can remedy this situation by engaging Clip RAM Mode for the clips in
question.
12.6 Follow Actions
Follow Actions allow creating chains of clips that can trigger each other in an orderly or
random way (or both). A clip's Follow Action denes what happens to other clips in the