one of the things that really makes Ableton Live stand out is the session
view and if you've been wondering how to make music with the Ableton session view
then this Ableton Live 10 tutorial is for you as I'm going to be going over
how to use Ableton session view for beginners I'm Zane from audiotechtv.com
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check the description now let's get into this Ableton Live 10 tutorial I'm just
going to quickly go over the sections of the session view and explain how they
work then we'll get into the fun stuff in here you'll notice these vertical
columns and these are called your tracks horizontally you have scenes and you can
press the triangle on any of these clips within the tracks and the scenes to
activate them they will continue to play until you switch to another clip on the
same track or you press the stop button on either the clip or the main stop
button up at the top if you want to activate an entire scene at the same
time so that would be all of the clips in a row like this then you can go over
to the master channel on the far right and press the play button there you can
have a mix of MIDI and audio tracks and you can even record MIDI or audio into
these tracks on the go or of course you can use MIDI clips and audio clips that
have already been recorded I'll be getting into the recording in session
view in just a bit you can resize your tracks by hovering the mouse over the
top corner of the track so you see the cursor change like this and then you
just click and drag either way if you want to resize all of the tracks at the
same time hold down the Alt key on your computer keyboard and click and drag on
one of the tracks
I mentioned this earlier you have a master channel over here and you may
also have a couple of effects buses here as well these are for master effects so
anything you add in here will go to the entire song I'll be looking at adding
effects to individual tracks in just a bit
but right now let's get into the fun stuff by adding some audio clips into
our session if you don't have your browser open already click here to open
the browser then navigate to your samples you can add the folder if you
need to and now you'll notice when you click on a sample or a loop you can
audition it in real time with your current tempo this can really come in
handy if you're playing some clips in your song and you wanted to addition
some more you just click on the clip and you'll be able to hear how it sounds
with your current song
one thing to note is when you're compiling your song
you can't play two clips in the same track at the same time so two clips and
a vertical track cannot play at the same time so you might want to treat each
track like it's its own instrument so all base clips may be going this track
the main drums will go in this one synth and another and so on you can
actually name these tracks up here just right-click rename so now we have some
audio clips loaded let's say we want to record some MIDI clips in first let's
bring in an instrument click on the header of the track up here and you'll
see it says drop an instrument or sample in here so I'm going to quickly drag an
instrument in and the cool thing is we can record on the fly so keep your song
playing then click this little arm for recording button at the bottom of the
MIDI track that you want to record to then when you're ready to record press
the little circle button on the clip that you want to record to you'll see it
count you in and then just record if you're playing
was a little off you don't have to worry about that you can click on the clip and
you'll see the piano roll open up at the bottom here you can drag your notes
around delete notes or quantize them to the grid by pressing ctrl and the u
button on your computer keyboard if you don't have a MIDI controller and
you still want to record some MIDI you can actually press this button up here
in the top right and this will allow you to use your computer keyboard as a MIDI
keyboard and you can record that if you're enjoying this video so far and
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into the Ableton Live 10 tutorial all right we have a MIDI clip and some audio
clips but now I want to record some audio into a track maybe just some claps
so the same as before click the little arm for recording button at the bottom
of an audio track then when you're ready click the circle on the clip that you
want to record to wait for it to count you in and then record if your timing
was a little off you can click on the clip and you'll see your waveform at the
bottom here and then you can adjust the start and end of the clip by moving
these markers around as needed if you need help setting up your audio
interface in Ableton Live for recording I've actually done another video that
shows you how to do that I'll link to it in the description alright so what if we
want to add some effects to individual tracks double click on the header of the
track up here and now you'll see it's a drop audio
effects here so you can easily drag and drop any effect onto that track
so now we've learned how to load clips record MIDI and audio clips add effects
and instruments and generally how to navigate the session view now what if we
want to record our session so we can play it back later if you're a DJ and
you want to record your sessions or maybe you just want a freestyle some
ideas and listen back to them later you can easily do this just hit the main
record button up here and start launching clips and recording your song
once you're done your session press stop then click over here to go to the
arrangement view you'll see all of your clips all arranged in here the way you
were playing them in the session click on this red button right here and you'll
be able to go in and adjust things as needed or you can even add more clips to
your song you can save this session so you can go back and edit it later and
you can also export this as an mp3 or WAV so you can share your audio with
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