Ableton/Live/UG/42 Keyboard Shortcuts/26 General Keyboard Navigation and Workflow
- Most menus, views and controls can be reached from the keyboard. The Navigate menu moves focus between areas of the interface and holds the
Tab navigation options; more are in the Display & Input Settings. - Ableton/Live/UG/41 Accessibility and Keyboard Nav/04 Navigating in Live covers each view.
- With Use Tab to Move Focus on,
Tab / Shift+Tab move to the next or previous control, and Option+Tab / Option+Shift+Tab (Mac), Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Win) move along a row in the Session or Arrangement mixer. - With it off,
Tab switches between Session and Arrangement View. - Wrap Tab Navigation —
Tab past the last control returns to the first, and Shift+Tab on the first goes to the last. - Move Clips with Arrow Keys — on by default; left and right arrows move selected clips or the time selection in the Arrangement. With it off, left and right collapse the time selection to its start or end.
- Same content as Ableton/Live/UG/41 Accessibility and Keyboard Nav/01 Menu and Keyboard Navigation Settings/01 Using Tab for Navigation.
Tab and Shift+Tab move between options in a Settings tab, whether or not Use Tab to Move Focus is on. Up and down arrows change a focused option; Enter flips a toggle.Option+Tab / Option+Shift+Tab (Mac), Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Win), or the arrows on the focused Settings Page Chooser switch tabs. Shift+Tab from a tab's first control returns to the chooser.