Resolume Forum

We are very curious to hear from you all what your favorite Clip Target in Resolume 3 is. Clip Target is a very powerful but to many unknown feature that allows you to work in very different styles.

Do you prefer it the default new Resolume 3 way (Own Layer) or do you like it Resolume 2 style (Active Layer) or do you prefer the new Free Layer style which allows you to work without even worrying about the layers. Or do you have no idea what this is all about?

If you have no clue what Clip Targets are then this bit from the Resolume 3 manual will be helpful:

Clip Target
The default thing that happens when you click a clip is that it plays on the layer it is held in. You can also set clips to play in the active layer (this approach will be familiar to Resolume 2.x users) or even to use the next available layer.

Like Beat Snap and Trigger Style, you can change this setting for the whole Composition (Composition > Clip Target) and for individual clips (Clip > Clip Target)

The Free Layer Clip Target mode is particularly fun when used with the Piano Trigger Style mode (see above). You can then play 'chords' of clips with the keyboard or a MIDI device - each of them will be displayed for as long as it is selected. Obviously, you will need as many layers as you want to play simultaneous clips.

ive been realy enjoying the use of the clip target. im not sure i have a favourite one yet, but as you say, it allows you to work in some quite different ways. when combining free layer with piano mode clip triggering it realy allows you to get abit more musical and actualy "play" a layer.

its a great addition to avenue and one which i have started to use a lot recently

For now, I prefer it the default new Resolume 3 way (Own Layer).

Well, I'm a newbie, but so far I really like playing musical notes via Ableton, latched to clips in the Free Layer mode. Nice work.

Free layer is really neat but its been very buggy for me to the point where I can't trust it at a gig. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to give steps to replicate the issues so I'll get around to that at some point.

I voted for own layer although I actually really like Active and Free.....but as I trigger stuff from Ableton I run into problems.

I have set a 5 column by six layer deck in Resolume because it works nicely with how I have my monome configured. I then have launch clips for each clip arranged in Layers within Live with two more sets of control clips. 1 set sends out a layer kill note to Res and simultaneously to a stop slot which kills playback of the looping clip trigger in Ableton. Otherwise the video clip get's retriggered by the looping Live clip. Then I have six deck select clips looping in Live that send feedback to the monome and light the appropriate button on the monome. That way I can always see which deck is selected without looking at the laptop.

I like to keep my clip launch on the Res triggers in Live to "none" so that if I feel like jamming away they take immediate effect. All this works fine with Own Layer except that I have to keep an eye on how many layers I have running. It is for this reason that I like the idea of Active except for one reason: because I have my trigger clips looping in Live ,and their quantise is set to "none", if I trigger a second loop to the Active Layer on the offbeat the previous clip on that layer(which is looping in Live) jumps in again until the second clip loops and triggers again. Actually this can be quite a nice auto-switching effect but I'd like to be able to switch it on and off remotely. Any chance the global behaviour could be selected by a key stroke which I could then midi map with midi stroke? ( You might have gathered by now I really don't like to touch the laptop at all during performance...)

Free is nice too but I have an unused layer in my layout for the sole reason that you can only get six layers on view with the GUI stretched out fully by adding a seventh unused and invisible layer. This means that when using Free a clip might get triggered into that layer and I then have no way of turning it off remotely as it is unmapped. So a second request. Would it be possible to have a keystroke to show and hide the bottom panels so you can see as much of your deck as you want without scrolling?

Thanks guys.