Ableton/Live/UG/35 Push 1/15 Push 1 Control Reference
- What each section and control does.
35.15.0.1 Focus/Navigation Section
- Note — on an instrument track the pads play notes, and further presses switch between real-time playing and the melodic sequencer. On a Drum Rack track the lower-left 16 pads play, the lower-right 16 set loop length, and the top four rows step-sequence; press again for 64-pad mode.
- Session — pads launch Session View clips.
- Shift — hold for second functions.
- Arrow keys — move around the Set in Session Mode, or between tracks and scenes in Note Mode.
- Select — hold and press a clip to select it without launching and show its name, or a drum pad to select its notes silently.
35.15.0.2 Add Section
- Add Effect — opens Browse to add a device right of the selected one;
Shift adds it to the left. For a MIDI effect, select the instrument and use Shift + Add Effect. - Add Track — adds a MIDI track to the right; hold to choose Audio, MIDI or Return. Inside a Group Track, the new track joins the group.
35.15.0.3 Note Section
- Scales — on an instrument track in Note Mode, picks the key and scale, with Fixed Y/N, In Key/Chromatic and scale type. No effect on Drum Rack tracks or in Session Mode.
- User — turns off Push's built-in functions so it can be remapped; hold for configuration. Relative encoders work best as "Relative (2's Comp.)"; turn the encoder slowly left while mapping to get it.
- Repeat — holding a pad retriggers it at the Scene/Grid rate.
- Accent — every note plays at full velocity; hold for temporary accent.
- Octave Up/Down — shift pads by octave on instrument tracks, by 16 pads on Drum Racks, and by eight scenes in Session Mode. Unlit when no further range exists.
35.15.0.4 State Control Section
- For tracks, the eight left buttons stop clips, mute or solo, depending on which of Stop, Mute or Solo is active. For devices they turn devices on and off. Other modes reuse them, for example for scale selection.
Shift + Stop stops all clips.
35.15.0.5 Selection Control Section
- Chooses what the encoders and display edit. In and Out reach devices in Racks or more parameter banks, and in Browse shift the columns.
35.15.0.6 Display/Encoder Section
- Six buttons beside the display set the encoder mode; hold one to switch temporarily. The ninth encoder is Main track volume, or Pre-Cue volume with
Shift. Shift with any of the first eight encoders gives fine control. - Volume — eight track volumes.
- Pan & Send — pans, then each send in turn.
- Track — one track's volume, pan and first six sends; Master selects the Main track.
- Clip — for MIDI clips: Loop Start (or Clip Start), Position, Loop Length (or Clip End), Loop on/off. Audio clips add Warp Mode, Detune, Transpose and Gain.
- Device — parameters of the selected device.
- Browse — scroll devices and presets.
35.15.0.7 Tempo Section
- Tap Tempo — the Set's tempo follows your taps. With "Start Playback with Tap Tempo" on in the Record, Warp & Launch Settings, four taps in 4/4 also start playback.
- Metronome — toggles Live's metronome.
- Left encoder sets tempo in 1 BPM steps, or 0.1 BPM with
Shift. Right encoder sets swing for Quantize, Record Quantize and Repeat.
35.15.0.8 Edit Section
- Undo — Live's own Undo, including actions not made on Push;
Shift + Undo redoes. - Delete — in Note Mode deletes the selected clip; in Session Mode hold and press a clip. Hold with a Selection Control button to delete a device or track, or touch an encoder to clear its automation or reset it.
- Quantize — press to quantize selected notes, or the whole clip; hold with a drum pad for that pad only. On audio clips it moves transients. Hold for settings.
- Double — doubles the loop and its contents.
35.15.0.9 Transport Section
- Fixed Length — new clips get a set number of bars; hold to choose.
- Automation — toggles Live's Automation Record for playing Session clips.
Shift + Automation re-enables overridden automation; Delete + Automation clears all automation in a clip. - Duplicate — captures a scene in Scene Workflow or copies the selected clip in Clip Workflow; with a drum pad, copies that pad.
- New — stops the selected clip and readies new recording. On an armed MIDI track, Record + New triggers Capture MIDI.
- Record — record, then play, then overdub.
- Play/Stop — Live's play button;
Shift + Play/Stop returns to 1.1.1 without playing.
35.15.0.10 Touch Strip
- On instrument tracks it is pitch bend (default) or mod wheel while playing live, and the note range while step sequencing; Select + tap the strip toggles bend and mod. On Drum Rack tracks it picks the pad bank.
35.15.0.11 Pad Section
- Session Mode launches clips. Note Mode plays notes on instrument tracks or splits into play, loop length and sequencer areas on Drum Rack tracks, with 64-pad mode one Note press away.
35.15.0.12 Scene/Grid Section
- In Session Mode these launch scenes; hold Select to select a scene without launching. In Note Mode they set step size and Repeat rate.
35.15.0.13 Using Footswitches with Push 1
- Two jacks take momentary footswitches. Footswitch 1 is sustain. Footswitch 2 toggles Record on a single tap and acts as New on a double tap.
- If a switch works backwards, plug it in while holding it down, or use a pedal with a polarity switch.
