Ableton/Live/UG/06 Arrangement View/03 Transport and Playback
- Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Button/Play and Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Button/Stop, or the space bar, start and stop playback. Keys and MIDI can be mapped to the transport.
- Playback starts from the flashing blue Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Marker/Insert Marker, at the Arrangement start by default. Click in a track to move it; double-click Stop, or press
Home (Win) / Fn+Left (Mac), to send it back to the start. Shift+Space continues from where playback last stopped instead.- Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Field/Arrangement Position shows the play position in bars-beats-sixteenths; drag, type and
Enter, or use the arrow keys to change it, which also moves the insert marker. - With Permanent Scrub Areas on (the default, in Display & Input Settings), click anywhere in the Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Scrub Area to play from there; jumps follow Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Menu/Quantization, and holding the button repeats that portion. With it off,
Shift-click the scrub area or beat-time ruler. - The Clip View editor has its own scrub area.
- Chase MIDI Notes, on by default in the Options menu, plays notes that began before the play position.