Ableton/Live/UG/07 Session View/01 Session View Clips
- Click a clip's triangular launch button to start it, or select the clip by its name and press
Enter; arrow keys move to neighbouring clips. A square Clip Stop button in a slot or in the Track Status field below the grid stops the track. 0 deactivates the selected clips. Clips can be triggered from the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller, even mapped across a note range to play chromatically.- The grid gives random access: clips play in any order regardless of layout.
- Stopping clips doesn't stop song time: Play stays lit and the Arrangement Position keeps running. Press Stop twice to stop everything and return to 1.1.1.
- Rename clips, several at once, with Rename; add info text with Edit Info Text; pick a color from the context menu. Drag to reorder;
Shift-click selects a range, Ctrl-click separate clips. - Group Track slots are shaded, in the color of the leftmost clip, when any track in the group has a clip in that scene. Their launch buttons launch those clips together, empty ones hold stop buttons, and clicking one selects its clips.