Recording a subgroup as a new group.

Hi friends,

Is there a nice way to record a subgroup of one group as a second group?  My final goal is to have a group of 20 random channels out of a group of 900 channels.  I do the following:

Group 1: Ch 1 th 900

In Live:

Group 1 Offset Chan Per Group 20 Random <Enter> <Next> to get a subgroup

If I try record group 2 at that point it clears my command line, and select last just selects the entire group.

If I try it in the group display I can't next to get a specific subgroup before adding the channels.

My current workaround is to start from a blank slate, then Group 1 Offset Chan Per Group 20 Random <enter> <next> @ Full <enter>, Select Active Record Group 2, but thats an annoying in between step, and requires recording yet another temporary group of the reordered channels to have a reproducable set of channels if I want more than one group

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  • There are probably a number of Syntax extensions required to make this work the way you would like. The concept of Group "Part" X isn't quite a thing.

    I have a bunch of automated Macros that do these kinds of tasks. If you had a set of Macros that would take your 1000 channels or whatever and auto generate 20 distinct random groups (so that no 2 channels overlap) - does that do it for you?
  • That would certainly get it closer, and I'd love to see the macros, but I'd imagine I'd need to modify the macros if I instead decided I wanted 18 groups, or 34 groups, correct? I think in the amount of time it would take to modify the macros I could do it manually, but maybe I'm wrong!
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