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Anna Lakatos
Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Follow Action

Follow Action allows us to assign an automated action to clips – for example, telling one clip to trigger another one, to repeat itself after its playback, or to stop, to name a few possibilities.

This can be used in multiple ways – for example, you can use this to play one backing track after another on stage, or create a randomized sequence of clips that trigger each other and record this generated sequence in the studio.

With Live 11, now you can also apply Follow Action to Scenes too! The Follow Action feature is only available in the Session View.

Let’s try it out!

In this example, we are going to work with a bunch of one-shot guitar clips and create an automated sequence with Follow Action:

  1. Open the Chapter 13 project.
  2. Head to and solo the track called FOLLOW ACTION.

For this to work, we will need to create a selection of clips – a group of selected clips! (We can have multiple groups of clips set up with...

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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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