Note that you can cancel the launch of any previously triggered scene by clicking the Cancel Scene Launch entry in the Master track’s context menu. This can be very useful in organizing the live performance of a song with multiple parts. To launch every clip in a row simultaneously, click on the associated Scene Launch button. The Scene Launch buttons are located in the rightmost column, which represents the Master track ( see 16.4). Note that pressing the 0 key while a Session View track header is selected will deactivate that track. Note that you can resize all Session View tracks at once by holding ALT while resizing a single track. Tracks can be narrowed this way so that only Clip Launch buttons and essential track controls are visible. It therefore makes sense to put a set of clips that are supposed to be played alternatively in the same columns: parts of a song, variations of a drum loop, etc.įor convenient access to more clips at once, you can resize Session View tracks by clicking and dragging at the edges of their title bars. Clicking in any group slot selects all of the clips it refers to.Įach vertical column, or track, can play only one clip at a time. Group slots which have no corresponding clips contain stop buttons. These group slots also contain launch buttons which will launch all of the respective clips. The color of the shading is the color of the left-most clip in the group. Slots in Group Tracks ( see 16.3) show a shaded area to indicate that at least one of the contained tracks contains a clip in that scene. Multiple adjacent or nonadjacent clips can be selected at once by Shift-clicking or CTRL-clicking, respectively. The context menu also contains a color palette where you can choose a custom clip color.Ĭlips can be reordered by drag-and-drop. You can also enter your own info text for a clip via the Edit Info Text command in the Edit menu or in the clip’s right-click(Win) / CTRL- click(Mac) context menu. You can rename several selected clips at once by executing the Rename command. The Arrangement Position Fields and the Stop Button.Ĭlips can be renamed using the Rename command in the Edit menu or the right-click(Win) / CTRL- click(Mac) context menu. You can always return the Arrangement Position fields to 1.1.1 and stop playback for the entire Live Set by pressing the Control Bar’s Stop button twice. These fields keep a continuous flow of musical time going, so that you can always know your position in song time during a live performance or while recording into the Arrangement ( see 7.5), regardless of what your individual Session clips are doing. Notice that, even if you stop playback for a Session View clip, the Play button in the Control Bar will remain highlighted, and the Arrangement Position fields will continue running. The layout of clips does not predetermine their order the Session grid offers random access to the clips it contains. They can even be mapped to MIDI note ranges so that they play chromatically.Ĭlips can be played at any time and in any order. Pressing the 0 key while a Session View clip(s) is selected will deactivate that clip(s).Ĭlips can be controlled remotely with the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller ( see Chapter 29). Click on a square Clip Stop button to stop a running clip, either in one of the track’s slots, or in the Track Status field below the Session grid.
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Please refer to the manual section on clip launch settings ( see 14.1) for details on how to customize this behavior. You can then move on to the neighboring clips using the arrow keys. Click the button with the mouse to “launch“ clip playback at any time, or pre-select a clip by clicking on its name, and launch it using the computer’s Enter key. Each clip in the Session View has a triangular button at the left edge.This is exactly what Live’s unique Session View is for. When working along with a piece of music or a film score, it can be more efficient and inspirational to start with an improvisation, which is later refined into the final product.In the theatre, sound has to react to what happens on stage.When playing live, or when DJing, the order of pieces, the length of each piece and the order of parts within each piece is generally not known in advance.For a number of applications, this is a limiting paradigm: In Live’s Arrangement View ( see Chapter 6), as in all traditional sequencing programs, everything happens along a fixed song timeline.