Ableton/Live/UG/06 Arrangement View/05 Time Signature Changes
- Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Marker/Time Signature Markers change the meter anywhere. Insert one at the insert marker with Create → Insert Time Signature Change or the scrub area's context menu.
- Numerators of one or two digits over 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 work, separated by a slash, comma, period or spaces.
- Typing in the Control Bar's Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Field/Time Signature fields changes the meter at the play position, stopped or playing. An LED in the fields' corner means the Arrangement has meter changes.
- Markers sit just below the beat-time ruler, in an area hidden until the Set has a change. Move them by mouse or arrow keys, edit with Edit Time Signature or
Cmd+R (Mac) / Ctrl+R (Win), delete with Delete. - Markers aren't quantized, only constrained by the grid, so one placed before a bar ends leaves a crosshatched fragmentary bar. Its context menu offers Delete Fragmentary Bar Time, which removes the extra time, or Complete Fragmentary Bar, which inserts time to finish the bar. Both change the length of every track.
- Importing a MIDI file into the Arrangement can bring its time signature changes as markers.