Ableton/Live/UG/06 Arrangement View/09 Selecting Clips and Time
- Editing works by selecting, then running a command such as Cut, Copy, Paste or Duplicate. See Ableton/Arrangement View/Time Selection and Ableton/Selection.
- Click a clip to select it. Click the background to place the insert marker, then move it with the arrow keys;
Option (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) with left or right snaps it to locators and clip edges. Drag to select a timespan. - To select time inside a clip, unfold its track with the button by its name or
U; Option+U (Mac) / Alt+U (Win) unfolds all. Resize by dragging the split line, with Option +/- (Mac) / Alt +/- (Win), or Option with a pinch; holding Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) while resizing one track resizes all. - Drag in a clip's waveform or MIDI display to select time in it. Clicking the loop brace runs Select Loop.
Shift-click extends a selection within or across tracks; Shift with arrows grows or shrinks it.0 deactivates the selected material, or the selected track. R or Reverse Clip(s) reverses a selection of audio, across clips; MIDI can't be reversed this way.- Left and right arrows nudge the selection.
- Related: Ableton/Arrangement View/Clip/How To/Select in a not quantized way.