Reference Manual

164 Launching Clips
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 influence; at 100 percent, the softest notes play the clip silently.
For more on playing clips via MIDI, see the respective section (page 477).
13.5 Legato Mode
The Legato Mode Switch.
Suppose you have gathered, in one track, a number of looping clips, and you now want to tog-
gle 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 unexpect-
edly jumping to a point in the sample that Live has had no chance to pre-load from disk in ad-
vance. You can remedy this situation by engaging Clip RAM Mode (page 113) for the clips in
question.
13.6 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 defines what happens to other clips in the same group after