Ableton/Live/UG/19 Recording New Clips/10 Capturing MIDI/01 Starting a New Live Set
- When the Set has no clips and the transport is stopped:
- every monitored MIDI track gets a clip with the phrase, in whichever view has focus;
- Live sets the tempo (within 80–160 BPM), the loop and the notes' grid positions. Ending on the downbeat of the next bar helps it find the phrase;
- the transport starts and plays the loop, ready for overdubs;
- notes played before the phrase stay in the clip ahead of the start marker, so the loop can be moved. Crop Clip discards the rest.
- If the first capture is a single note, the loop spans that note and the tempo is set to make it one, two, four or eight bars.