Person/Lorne Bregitzer/YouTube/21/09/Recording Clips from the Session View to the Arrangement View

• Ableton Live 11 Tutorial - Recording Clips from the Session View to the Arrangement View - YouTube

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    • From Person/Lorne Bregitzer's channel The Audio Professor. Three ways to get clips playing in Ableton/Live/Mode/Session into Ableton/Live/Mode/Arrangement: drag single clips, drag whole scenes, or record scenes into the Arrangement in real time.
    • See also Ableton/Live/UG/19 Recording New Clips/03 Recording/01 Recording Into the Arrangement

  • Video

    • • 00:07 Three ways from Session to Arrangement

        • He usually records Session clips into the Arrangement, but shows each method.
        • The demo set has four scenes: A, B, C and D.

      • 00:34 Drag a single clip with Tab

        • Click and hold a clip in Session View, press Tab to switch to Arrangement View, and drop it on a track.
        • Drop MIDI clips on MIDI tracks and audio clips on audio tracks; aim for the same track the clip came from.

      • 01:06 Grayed-out tracks and Back to Arrangement

        • A grayed-out track in Arrangement View is set to play from Session View. Each track plays from one view or the other, never both.
        • The orange Ableton/Live/UI/Arrangement View/Button/Back to Arrangement button in the upper right of the timeline returns every track to the Arrangement.
        • "Session view will always overwrite arrangement view": launching a scene grays the tracks out again.
        • Each track also has its own small play-shaped Back to Arrangement button that switches only that track.

        • My Notes

          • The first, most easy way to do it is to just click on this Back to Arrangement button, this orange button in the upper right hand corner of the timeline, and click that
            

            • If a track is greyed out in Arrangement view, click the Back to Arrangement orange button in the upper right hand corner of the timeline.

          • Now, another way of doing it, and just to get back to how it was, just launch something now. Session view will always overwrite arrangement view.
            

            • Launching a scene from Session view will put those tracks in Session mode.

          • to do it individually is this. is just a single track back to arrangement.
            

            • This is the perhaps the first time I've noticed the little vertical rectangular play buttons next to the track headers in arrangement view; I rarely switch to arrangement view in session view. But they are there: if I open up an Ableton Live 11 session and launch a scene, then if I tab to Arrangement view, then the arrangement view tracks will have individual Back to Arrangement buttons beneath the global orange Back to Arrangement button.

      • 02:29 Drag a whole scene

        • Click and hold a scene's launch area, press Tab, and drop all of its clips into the Arrangement at once. Press Back to Arrangement afterwards.
        • Clips of different lengths keep their own lengths; drag the upper right corner of a clip to loop it out to the length you want.

        • My Notes

          • Another way of doing it is to take whole scenes. So I have this scene here, A. If I just click and hold on scene A and hit Tab, I can drag that scene, drag all those clips in there.
            

            • #Tip/Great
            • Another first for me - if you click and drag on a Scene in Session view, then you can drag its clips to Arrangement view. Wow!

      • 03:33 Record scenes into the Arrangement in real time

        • The method he prefers: press Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Button/Arrangement Record and launch scenes while Live records them onto the timeline.
        • Set a two-bar count-in from the Ableton/Live/UI/Control Bar/Switch/Metronome menu in the upper left.
        • Press Stop so the playhead sits at 1.1.1, press Record, and launch the first scene during the count-in.
        • He plays A, B, C and D for four bars each, then returns to B, C and D.

        • My Notes

          • but I tend to like take my arrangement that I have and record it into the range of view.
            

            • He showed before this how to drag a Scene to Arrangement View and then extend / repeat each individual clip, and recording into Arrangement view is the alternative.

          • I'm going to set it up so it does a count off. And so I go to my upper left hand corner here and the metronome here. I can set up so it just counts in two bars, keep everything else by default. So in two bars, I know it's recording.
            

            • Here he lays out how important it is to prepare for Arrangement View recording in Session View by 1.) calibrating the number of measures you will get a count-in, 2.) pressing stop, so you are back at the beginning of arrangement view

      • 05:37 Play back what was recorded

        • After stopping, playback still comes from the last scene launched in Session View.
        • Press Back to Arrangement again to hear the recording.

      • 06:18 Edit the song in Arrangement View

        • Trim or move clips on the timeline, for example cutting everything but the guitar at bar 13.
        • Session View and Arrangement View share one mixer, so level and pan changes apply to both.

      • 07:24 Session View as a sketch pad

        • His workflow: sketch sections of a song as scenes in Session View, then record the sketch into Arrangement View and keep editing there.