I feel like the biggest burn of time when programming in Beam is having to manual set individual automation points for parameters I dont want to change later.
My situation - I have stems and loops in ableton clip view. I program my lighting looks and enevelope triggers into midi clips that fire with the ableton scenes.
So lets say I program a look for SONG 1. Generic fixture with 16 properties. 2 Lfos with 8 properties each.
If I then want to program another look for SONG 2 using the same channel. I have to manually set automation points on every single property for at the very least, the final clip of the previous song, to ensure I am not overwriting programming.
whenever there are drastic changes between clips, all automation points for all channel devices need to be manually set.
There needs to be a button that creates an automation point for every fixture paramater, at that state. This would save so much time. Madmapper has this feature when programming cues - ‘KEY ALL’
I have tried to find M4L plugins that do this - ‘variations’ in ‘Performance Pack by Iftah’ should this by saving snapshots but it does not work for me as it does not write actual automation points.