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So let's open Live and take a look.
I'm just heading over to the Dock and clicking on this "Live" icon,
and the software's going to launch for me right here.
So initially, I'm greeted with
a default session and we're looking at what's referred to as session view.
So this is the vertical representation of
the tracks and if I click on this icon over here,
I'm looking at arrangement view which is showing these tracks to me horizontally.
So heading back to session view,
let's just take a look at what we've got in front of us here.
The default setting of a session in Live is going to have two MIDI tracks.
I've got one here,
the second MIDI track here.
Two audio tracks on Track 3, Track 4.
I've got a reverb and delay on return tracks
and then here is the master track on the far right-hand side as well.
Up above, this is where we're going to set the BPM,
the meter, turn the metronome on and off.
We've got a transport which is record, stop,
and play on the global parameters as well as
some other stuff that we're going to get to as the course progresses.
So there's a lot of windows in Live that you can open and close
depending on what it is that you need to see at any given time.
So starting on the left-hand top corner,
here's this first disclosure triangle,
I'm going to click on it and it's going to open Live's browser.
So if I start at the top here,
you can see I have a lot of sounds that I have access to and each of these is
compartmentalized into folders which also
have disclosure triangles, and you can see I've got all these presets here.
I can open and load any of these sounds.
Here are the drums,
the virtual instruments that come with Live,
all the audio effects I have access to. You can see here,
these are also in categories that I can open
and checkout the different presets for each of these audio effects.
Here are my MIDI effects,
my Max for Live devices,
all of my plugins.
If you have third party software,
this is where you're going to find those.
Here's where clips and loops that I can just
automatically pull into my Live set are located.
Any samples that I also have in my library.
Below that this is all user custom content.
Any packs that you've downloaded,
your library or anything else that you've customized in this section.
So I'm going to quickly just close that window and continue on.
If we head to the bottom-left,
I'm going to hit this disclosure triangle and I'm
opening what's referred to as Info View.
So this is a really smart window to have open when you start using Live
because it's going to give you information about
whatever your mouse is currently hovering over.
So for instance, I'm going to put my mouse over this yellow box on Track 2,
and it's saying that this is the Track Activator and that it's
going to activate this button to hear the track or to deactivate it.
It will also mute the track.
So I can activate or deactivate this track by
toggling the Track Activator and I've been given this information by the Info View.
So I really recommend you keep this open if this is your first time using Live,
it's going to give you a lot of helpful information as you continue
navigating and creating inside of this DAW.
So closing Info View,
down here is called detail view.
So if I have a track selected, for instance,
I'll select return A,
it says reverb, there's a reverb on it.
There's a device directly inserted onto this track.
So if I have the tracks selected I'm going to
see that reflected in detail view down here.
If I have a clip selected,
I'll just create an empty clip here in the second MIDI track,
you can see I've got everything that is inside of this clip.
So tracks, clips, whatever I have selected,
detail view is going to give me information on that and I can
expand or contract to this window by pulling up and down here.
Then just like with the other windows,
I can open and close them by hitting
this disclosure triangle on the bottom right-hand side.
Above that, I can choose to hide or show
many things on the window depending on what it is I want to see.
So I can see the track faders,
I could see the returns,
I can see the send,
and I can see the IO or the signal flow on any of these tracks
just by selecting any of these Show/Hide buttons on the right-hand side.
So let's take a look at these tracks vertically now.
I've got Audio 3 selected.
So as I move down this track,
you can see here is the signal flow or
the IO which is going to let me decide if I want to bring audio in.
Where's that audio coming from.
Say I'm recording something,
where's that audio going to.
Currently I have the Master selected which has
all this audio flowing over to this master track here.
Down below are my Send knobs which is going to allow me to
just route signal directly to a send if I want to quickly put some reverb,
delay or whatever's inserted on any of these return tracks.
Then down below, here's my Track Fader,
here's my Pan Pot.
If I want to knock them a little bit to the right or to the left.
My Track Activator to mute or activate a track,
Solo, and Record here.
These are also expandable and contractible
depending on how much you need to see at any given time.
So if I head over to arrangement view,
this is the linear timeline inside of Live.
So eventually I'm going to create an exportable version of all of
my ideas that I'm going to share with everybody and that's where this happens,
but you can see this redundancy with the tracks being displayed.
Just instead of vertically,
this time we're looking at them in a horizontal representation.
So all of the track titles are over here on the right-hand side.
Here's that IO again if I want to route things in and out,
and here's the Track Activators,
here's my Fader, here are my Sends,
my Pan Pot, my Solo,
and my Record enable button's here.
So you can access a lot of parameters on both session and arrangement view,
and depending on what it is you're doing,
that's where you're going to access those things and we can
toggle quickly between them by hitting
these two buttons or by pressing the Tab key to quickly toggle between both views.
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