Kamil Kisiel
Power User
In Ableton Live there's two views, the session view and the arrangement view. The arrangement view is linear like most DAWs, but the session view is arranged into a series of rows called scenes. Each scene can have a different MIDI or audio clip per track, and the MIDI clip can contain any arbitrary data including commands to start / stop looper devices etc. Then you can trigger different scenes by pushing buttons on a controller, or even pick clips from different scenes to mix and match them. The scene and clip launch can be quantized, even to a measure, so you don't even have to hit them in time.
So you could trigger a scene that would record a 4 bar loop into your percussion track and then have it automatically move to another scene that starts playback of the loop. Since the triggering is quantized, you can hit the button to trigger the scene early and then go walk over to switch instruments or whatever.
Clips can have follow actions that automatically play back another clip afterwards, so you can configure your "record 4 bar loop" clip to automatically launch the "play back 4 bar loop" clip after it's done.
Ableton Live was mostly designed around non-linear playback, the arrangement view was very primitive in earlier versions (and still is compared to most DAWs). The focus has always been the session view where you are basically doing live remixing.
So you could trigger a scene that would record a 4 bar loop into your percussion track and then have it automatically move to another scene that starts playback of the loop. Since the triggering is quantized, you can hit the button to trigger the scene early and then go walk over to switch instruments or whatever.
Clips can have follow actions that automatically play back another clip afterwards, so you can configure your "record 4 bar loop" clip to automatically launch the "play back 4 bar loop" clip after it's done.
Ableton Live was mostly designed around non-linear playback, the arrangement view was very primitive in earlier versions (and still is compared to most DAWs). The focus has always been the session view where you are basically doing live remixing.
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