Ableton/Live/UG/07 Session View/04 Setting Up the Session View Grid
- Clips reach the Session from the browser or by recording.
- Several files dropped at once stack in one track, vertically in Session View; hold
Cmd (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) while dropping to spread them across tracks. This works for raw audio and MIDI files, not Live Clips. - Drag clips around the grid; select several with
Shift or Cmd/Ctrl, or rubber-band select from an empty slot. - Launching a clip also selects it so the Clip View shows it. Turn off Select on Launch in Launch Settings to keep the current view, for example a return track's devices, when launching clips or scenes.
- Edit → Add/Remove Stop Button adds or removes a slot's Clip Stop button. A slot without one is left alone by its scene: remove the stop button at scene 3, track 4, and launching scene 3 won't affect track 4.
- Besides Cut, Copy, Paste and Duplicate, the Create menu has:
- Insert Scene: an empty scene below the selection.
- Capture and Insert Scene: a new scene holding copies of the clips now playing, launched at once without a break. Useful for keeping a good combination while you keep experimenting.