Ableton/Live/UG/03 Live Concepts/06 Arrangement and Session
- Clips are Live's building blocks: a melody, a drum pattern, a bassline, or a whole song.
- The Arrangement lays clips out on a linear timeline; the Session is a launching base where each clip has its own play button and can start at any time in any order. See Ableton/Live/Mode/Arrangement and Ableton/Live/Mode/Session.
- Switch views with
Tab or the view controls at the top right. With "Use Tab Key to Navigate" on, use Option+1 / Option+2 (Mac) or Alt+1 / Alt+2 (Win), or the Navigate menu. With two windows, Tab swaps the views between windows. - Each view holds its own clips. Switching views changes only the display, not what is playing.
- The views connect through tracks, so you can improvise with Session clips and record the result into the Arrangement.