Ableton/Live/UG/18 Mixing/02 Audio and MIDI Tracks
- Audio and MIDI tracks host and play clips.
- Create them from the Create menu, with
Cmd+T (audio) and Cmd+Shift+T (MIDI) on Mac / Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows, by loading a file or device from the browser, or by dragging content into the empty space beside or below the tracks. Dragging clips there makes a new track with those clips and the original track's devices. Title bars
- Click a title bar to select the track for Edit menu commands. Rename with
Cmd+R / Ctrl+R; Tab moves to the next track. - A
# in the name becomes an automatic track number; extra #s add leading zeros. Edit Info Text adds a description; see Ableton/Info Text. - Drag title bars to reorder tracks; drag their edges to change width (Session) or height (Arrangement).
Selecting and saving
Shift-click selects a range; Cmd/Ctrl-click adds single tracks. Dropping a non-adjacent selection packs the tracks together; Ctrl+arrow keys move them without that.- Adjusting a control on several selected tracks keeps their differences.
- Drag a title bar to a folder in the browser's Places to save the track as a new Set, collecting its samples as set by Collect Files on Export.
- Edit → Delete removes a track.
