change file path (or retarget file)

[Andrew Keister]

Hello All,

I'm looking for a script for V3 that will allow me to change the file path of an audio cue (retarget the cue to a different audio file). The links to a method in previous discussions of this topic appear broken though I found Rich Walsh's V2 script on the wiki, but can't make it work in V3. Anyone have a method to accomplish this?

Many thanks,

Andrew

[Rich Walsh]

To be honest, I don’t have time to update the wiki these days: I found it quite clunky to use last time I tried. More or less everything useful that I ever put up there is in my template – search the archive for it. The only thing that stops the version on the wiki from working is the loss of the two hooks "loop start time” & "loop end time”: take those lines out and it should still work.

This is the current version:

Change target

Change selected Audio Cue's target (keeping start/end times); it will also keep the cue's name, if it has been changed from the default:

(* ###FIXME### This script needs testing in the wild to see how it works with slices in practice: as of 4.1.3

QLab appears to retain slice points within the duration of a new File Target but resets the start & end times (this script maintains start & end times) *)

tell front workspace

try -- This protects against no selection (can't get last item of (selected as list))

set selectedCue to last item of (selected as list)

if q type of selectedCue is "Audio" then

set currentStart to start time of selectedCue

set currentEnd to end time of selectedCue

set currentFileTarget to file target of selectedCue

if currentFileTarget is not missing value then

tell application "System Events"

set whereToLook to (path of container of (currentFileTarget as alias)) as alias

end tell

set newFileTarget to choose file of type "public.audio" with prompt "Please select the new File Target:" default location whereToLook

else

set newFileTarget to choose file of type "public.audio" with prompt "Please select the new File Target:"

end if

set file target of selectedCue to newFileTarget

set start time of selectedCue to currentStart

set end time of selectedCue to currentEnd

end if

end try

end tell

Rich

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[Maik Waschfeld]

I whish, someone could bring this to Ableton LIVE!

;-)

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[Rich Walsh]

I’ve always found swapping files around in Live pretty straightforward. Have you read section 5.5.5 of the manual, eg:

Replace a file — Dragging a file from the browser and dropping it on an entry in the list makes the Live Set reference the new file instead of the old one. For samples used in audio clips, Live retains the clip properties; the Warp Markers are kept if the new sample has the same or a greater length as the old sample and discarded otherwise. Please note that re-placing a sample will change all clips in your set that reference this sample.

I think for an individual clip you drop it onto the waveform to keep the clip properties.

Rich

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[Maik Waschfeld]

Hi Rich,

I think for an individual clip you drop it onto the waveform to keep the clip properties.

Thanks so much for the hint!

I just dropped the new files to the clips in the list, not to the waveform within the clip’s properties.

Everyday brings new knowledge, even for LIVE from a QLab-list.

[Andrew Keister]

Thanks Rich, that’s very helpful!

Best,

Andrew

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