Ableton/Live/UG/07 Session View/05 Recording Sessions into the Arrangement
- With Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Button/Arrangement Record on, Live logs Session playing into the Arrangement: launched clips, changes to their properties, mixer and device automation, and tempo and meter changes from launched scenes. Press it again or stop to finish.
- The Arrangement then holds copies of the launched clips on the right tracks and times. No new audio is recorded, only clips.
- A track plays either its Session clip or its Arrangement, not both. Launching a Session clip, or pressing a Clip Stop button, takes the track off the Arrangement until you press Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Back to Arrangement, which lights up while what you hear differs from the Arrangement.
- Stop All Clips sits in the Main track's status field. Session and Arrangement clips are independent, so you can record improvisations into the Arrangement again and again.
- Move clips between views with Copy and Paste, by dragging onto the view selectors, or between windows with a Second Window (
Cmd+Shift+W on Mac / Ctrl+Shift+W on Windows). - Pasting Arrangement material into the Session lays clips out top to bottom in time order, so stepping down the scenes rebuilds the arrangement.
- Create → Consolidate Time to New Scene turns a selected Arrangement range into one clip per track in a new scene, writing new samples for audio tracks.
- Related: Ableton/Arrangement View/Q/Can I record in Arrangement View while playing Session View clips? and Launchpad/Custom/Mode/1 Arrangement.