Ableton/Live/UG/36 Push 2/15 Controlling Live's Session View
- Session switches the grid to launching clips, with Scene/Grid buttons launching scenes. Hold Session for momentary Session mode, or hold Note while in Session mode for momentary Note mode.
- Pressing a pad launches that clip; on the selected track an empty pad records a new clip.
- Pads show clip colours; playing clips pulse; recording clips pulse between red and their colour.
Shift+pad, then an outer-ring pad, recolours a clip. - Mute and Solo act on the selected track, or hold them and press a track's lower button. Stop Clip stops the selected track's clip, or hold it and press a track's button;
Shift+Stop Clip stops everything. Holding any of these for a moment locks it on until pressed again; while Stop Clip is locked, tracks with playing clips pulse. - Live draws a coloured border round the slots Push 2 is controlling.
- Hold Duplicate, press a clip, then tap another slot to copy it there.
- Up/Down move one scene, Octave buttons eight; Left/Right move one track, Page buttons eight.
- With Clip mode in focus the display folds to show every note of the clip, handy for recognising it or watching incoming MIDI. Hold Select and tap a pad to select a clip without launching it.
- Hold Layout for the Session Overview.
- Session Overview zooms the grid out so each pad is a block of eight scenes by eight tracks, covering 64 by 64; each scene button stands for 64 scenes. Tap a pad to jump there — row three, column one is scenes 17–24, tracks 1–8.
- Hold Layout for momentary access;
Shift+Layout locks it; Layout unlocks. - Colours: white for the current block (bordered in Live), green where clips are playing, unlit where there are no tracks or scenes.
