Launchpad/UG/05 Session Mode/03 Clip Functions
5.3 Clip Functions
- Session Mode supplies clip selection, editing, quantisation, and recording-length controls.
5.3.1 Select a Clip or Empty Clip Slot
- Hold Shift and press a clip or empty slot to select it without launching it. Live focuses that clip and its track. Select an empty slot as the destination when printing from the sequencer.
5.3.2 Clear a Clip
- Hold Clear and press a grid pad to delete its clip from Session View. In Note Mode, pressing Clear removes the selected clip.
5.3.3 Duplicate a Clip
- Hold Duplicate and press a clip pad to copy it into the slot immediately below. An existing clip in that slot is overwritten.
- In Note Mode, press Duplicate to copy the selected clip and select the copy for editing.
5.3.4 Double a Clip’s Length
- Double expands a clip to twice its length, such as a two-bar loop becoming four bars.
- In Session Mode, hold Shift + Duplicate and press the clip pad. For a selected playing clip in Note or Device Mode, hold Shift and press Duplicate once. In Note Mode, the Double control extends the selected clip for a longer loop or overdub.
5.3.5 Quantise a Clip
- Hold Quantise and press a clip pad. Its MIDI notes snap to the nearest sixteenth-note grid point.
5.3.6 Record Quantise
- Record Quantise snaps newly recorded MIDI to the current quantisation grid.
- Hold Shift to inspect the Quantise button: red means off, green means on. While holding Shift, press Quantise to toggle it. In Live, change the grid at Edit → Record Quantisation.
5.3.7 Fixed Length
- Fixed Length limits new recordings to a chosen number of bars, then stops recording and loops the clip. Press Fixed Length to toggle it: white means off and blue means on.
- Briefly hold Fixed Length until the Track Select buttons pulse blue. Press one of those buttons to choose one to eight bars.