Launchpad/UG/05 Session Mode/01 Ableton Live Session View

• 5.1 Ableton Live’s Session View

  • Session View arranges clips in tracks (columns) and scenes (rows). A clip usually contains looping MIDI or audio. A track hosts an instrument or audio, and a scene launches the clips across its row.
  • Use the arrow buttons to move the visible 8 × 8 window through the Live set. Live outlines the window currently shown on Launchpad Pro.
  • Press a clip pad to launch it. Its color matches Live. A queued clip flashes green; a playing clip pulses green. Each track plays one clip at a time, and launching an empty slot stops its playing clip. Use the scene launch buttons at the right to launch a row.
  • 5.1.B — Session View in Live and on the Launchpad grid
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  • For an armed track, Session Record overdubs the playing clip. Shift + Session Record calls Capture MIDI, which retrieves recently played notes from armed or input-monitored tracks into a new clip or overdubs the playing clip.
  • Play starts the active clips; pressing Play during playback stops playback.