Ableton/Live/UG/35 Push 1/05 Playing Melodies and Harmonies
- Add Track adds a MIDI track and opens Browse to load an instrument; hold it to choose Audio, MIDI or Return. Inside a Group Track, new tracks go into the group.
- On an instrument track the grid plays notes, in C major by default. The bottom-left pad is C1; each row up is a fourth higher and each pad to the right is the next scale note. A scale is three pads in a row, then three in the next row, and so on.
- Pad colors: blue is the key's root, white is in the scale, green is playing, red is playing while recording.
- Holding Note briefly shows loop length controls in the top row;
Shift + Note locks them. - Scales changes key and scale with the display and the Selection and State Control buttons. The first encoder or the two far-left buttons pick the scale type.
- Fixed Y/N — with Fixed on, the grid stays put when the key changes and the bottom-left pad stays C, or the nearest key note. With it off, the bottom-left pad is always the root.
- In Key/Chromatic — In Key folds the grid to scale notes only; Chromatic shows every note with in-key notes lit.
Shift in Scales offers more layouts: "4th" and "3rd" set the interval between rows, ^ and > set whether it runs up or right, and "Sequent" lays notes out in order with no duplicates for a wide range.- Key, scale, In Key/Chromatic and Fixed are saved with the Set.
- Drum recording options (fixed length, Repeat, quantize) work here too. Hold Delete and tap a pad to remove every note of that pitch in the loop.
