Ableton/Live/UG/03 Live Concepts/07 Tracks
- Tracks hold clips and manage signal flow: recording, synthesis, effects and mixing.
- Session and Arrangement share one set of tracks, shown as columns in the Session and as stacked rows in the Arrangement.
- A track plays one clip at a time, so clips that alternate go in the same Session column, and clips that play together go across a row, called a scene.
- A track plays a Session clip or an Arrangement clip, never both, and Session clips win. A track that switched to a Session clip stays off the Arrangement until you press Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Back to Arrangement, found in the Main track in Session View, at the top right of the scrub area, and on each Arrangement track.
- Pressing Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Button/Arrangement Record from Session View captures the Session into the Arrangement.
- Arrangement recordings can produce several takes for comping, and tracks can be linked to edit them together (Ableton/Linked-Track Editing).