Ableton/Live/UG/36 Push 2/05 Playing Melodies and Harmonies
- Switch tracks with the lower display buttons or the arrow keys, or press Add Track to choose MIDI, Audio or Return and optionally load a device. Inside a group, new tracks join the group.
Shift + a track's lower display button, then a pad in the outer ring, sets the track colour.- On an instrument track the grid plays notes in C major by default: bottom left is C1 (Octave buttons shift it), each row up is a fourth higher, and each pad right is the next scale note.
- Pad colours: track colour for the root, white for other scale notes, green for notes playing (every pad with that note), red while recording.
- A triad is the same shape anywhere on the grid.
- Hold Layout for the loop length controls;
Shift+Layout locks them; Layout unlocks. - Scale opens key and scale settings.
- Upper and lower display buttons pick the key (selected in white); encoders 2–7 pick the scale type.
- Layout (encoder 1) and Direction (encoder 8) set the grid: 4ths (default) puts each row a fourth above the one below; 3rds a third; Sequent lays notes out in order with no repeats, for the widest range. Horiz rotates the grid 90°.
- Fixed on keeps note positions when changing key (bottom left stays C, or the nearest scale note); off moves the root to the bottom left.
- In Key folds the grid to scale notes only; Chromatic shows every note with out-of-key notes unlit.
- Scale settings save with the Set; put favourites in your Default Set.
- Accent, Fixed Length, Repeat and Quantize all work for melodies too. Hold Delete and tap a pad to remove every note of that pitch in the loop.
