Ableton/Live/UG/10 Editing MIDI/08 Multi-Clip Editing
- With several MIDI clips selected, the editor shows their notes together, to compare and edit material across tracks and scenes, or successive variations in one track.
- Edit notes from all of them at once, or one at a time with Focus Mode.
- A loop bar per clip, in its color, sits above the editor. Click a clip's note or loop bar to switch to it; drag a loop bar's marker to change that clip's loop,
Cmd/Ctrl-click or Shift-click to edit several (not in Focus Mode); Cmd+D (Mac) / Ctrl+D (Win) duplicates them. Drag above the scrub area to resize the bars. - The title bar names the clip being edited, or its track if the clip has no name.
- Loop, time signature, groove and scale controls, and Fold to Notes and Fold to Scale, apply to all selected clips.
- Velocity and Chance edits apply only to the foreground clip.
- It works differently in Session and Arrangement View.
- Focus Mode edits one clip while the others stay visible. Toggle it with the Focus button or
N; hold N while editing to switch it temporarily. - On: the active clip's notes and loop bar are in color, the rest gray, with its name below the loop bars. Hover another clip's loop bar to preview it, click to switch. Edits and the displayed scale apply to the active clip; Fold to Notes considers all clips.
- Off: every note is active and colored. Clicking a loop bar turns it black so Velocity or Chance randomization targets that clip. Root and scale show only when shared, otherwise an asterisk. Edits apply to all selected clips; notes can be cut, copied and pasted across clips, and time selected across clip and loop boundaries.
- Up to eight looped clips; loop bars ordered by track, then scene.
- Clips of different lengths repeat until they realign; time outside a clip's loop is shaded darker. Hovering shows its loop start and end as black lines, shifted if its start marker comes before the loop.
- Clips from up to eight tracks within a time selection; loop bars ordered by track vertically and by time horizontally.
- Notes can be drawn across clip boundaries, except in Focus Mode. The editor spans from the first clip's start to the last clip's end. A mix of looped and unlooped clips shows the Loop button half colored.