Ableton/Live/UG/06 Arrangement View/01 Layout

• 6.1 Layout

  • Garden pages for the view and its controls: Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View.
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  • Upper area:
    • Ableton/Arrangement View/Overview: the whole Arrangement in miniature. The black outline marks what's on screen; drag sideways to scroll, vertically to zoom, double-click inside the outline to show everything.
    • Ableton/Arrangement View/Beat Time Ruler: bars-beats-sixteenths. Drag like the Overview. Double-click zooms to the selection, or out to the whole Arrangement when nothing is selected.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Scrub Area: click to play from that point; hold the mouse button to loop that spot by the global launch quantization.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Scrub Area/Marker/Locators mark launchable sections. Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Set Locator adds them during playback or recording and becomes Delete Locator when one is selected; Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Previous Locator and Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Next Locator jump between them, quantized.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Toggle/Automation Mode shows or hides automation lanes.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Toggle/Lock Envelopes ties envelopes to the song position instead of the clips, so clips move without their automation.
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  • Tracks and lower area:
    • Clips sit in each track's main lane (Ableton/Arrangement View/Track/Display Area); comping moves clips there from take lanes.
    • Arrangement Track Controls hold volume, pan, I/O and more; choose them under View → Arrangement Track Controls.
    • Tracks stack vertically and reorder by dragging. Dropping an instrument or MIDI effect into the Mixer Drop Area below the tracks creates a MIDI track; an audio effect creates an audio track.
    • Ableton/Arrangement View/Optimize/Height and Ableton/Arrangement View/Optimize/Width, or H and W, fit every track to the view.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Slider/Waveform Vertical Zoom Level enlarges waveforms in all audio tracks without changing clip gain.
    • Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Time Ruler shows minutes-seconds-milliseconds; drag it to scroll.
    • Open the mixer from View → Mixer or the Mixer View toggle at the bottom right.