I’m trying to just simply trigger some loops/restart them/stop them when I want and it’s been a real headache.
It seems like the amp envelopes affect this behavior, I just wanna hit Trig 1 and have it start a loop and play and then hit Trig 1 again to stop it.
I’ve searched and read a ton of information but haven’t really found a simple solution to WHY this isn’t working.
Does it stops at the end of the pattern?
Check if Trig Quantize is set to Direct.
What are your Amp settings ?
The sequencer is stopping but the loop is continuing to play because of the amp settings, I’m trying to find the right combination of settings to “ignore” the amp settings, I guess? I just want the loop to stop playing when I hit stop or keep playing if I don’t.
What about pressing track and stop - does that work?
Yeah but I have to hit the trig key afterwards regardless to stop the sequencer, its like hitting track+stop just temporarily stops it and the sequencer triggers it again.
If you use slices, I think it can work. I’m checking…
Yep, it works well with slices.
Same problem with slices, I still have to have an insanely long amp envelope to play the whole loop and so it ignores the sequencer stopping… so I can’t stop it when I want
Works for me.
Playback Setup :
Slice On, Len = Slice
Playback page :
Len = 1
I’m trying to trigger a pad progression of 4 chords, I want the option to be able to stop the playback of the loop in the middle of the 2nd chord, using slices doesn’t work for this. It still plays audio because the OT is following the AMP envelope settings regardless of what the sequencer is doing.
With slices it does an interesting slutter fx. 
Ok so you have only 4 slices ?
Would you use midi play free tracks and midi loopback ?
This should stop the sound in a nicer way.
Alright well I got the functionality I wanted after lots of trial and error w/ manually setting up slices…I wish there was a way to have the PLAY FREE mode stop audio playback at the same time as the sequencer. It’s pretty annoying to have to manually set up every single track with different settings when I could just load up ableton and hit start/stop all day long regardless of the material 
edit: from another thread: "if you have a 4 bar sample set to plays free the one, one 2, hold settings will have no effect because the sample will behave according to its envelope when the track (not the sequencer) is “stopped” as rhizome points out.
the quantize settings will ONLY affect the timing of the start trigger if the sequencer is already running. if the sequencer is not running, no matter how you have the quantize set, the track will start straight away.
the only way to stop these long samples is to press track and stop. this will stop the track’s audio directly but NOT the sequencer."