Ableton/Live/UG/19 Recording New Clips/03 Recording/03 Overdub Recording MIDI Patterns
- To build a drum pattern or melody layer by layer in a looping clip:
- Set Global Quantization to one bar, and choose a Record Quantization value if notes should be quantized as they're recorded.
- Double-click an empty Session slot on the instrument's MIDI track to make an empty one-bar clip; change its loop length if needed.
- Arm the track and press Session Record. Notes are added on every loop pass.
- Press Session Record to switch between overdubbing and playing along without recording.
Option/Alt-double-click an empty slot to create the clip, arm the track and launch it in one step.- Undo removes the last pass; notes can be drawn, moved or deleted in the MIDI Note Editor while recording continues.