in this video I'm going to show you my 11 most used Ableton keyboard shortcuts
so that you can spend less time navigating Ableton and more time
Bret Pontecorvo here at live keyboardist dot-com where I help keyboard players
just like you with the ins and outs of Ableton with creating an excellent live
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used Ableton keyboard shortcuts so my first most used keyboard shortcut is
really simple it's just tab and tab is going to help you switch back and forth
between session view and arrangement for you but as you'll notice right now I
have nothing on my screen so we need to use some keyboard shortcuts to bring
some information into our live set so our second keyboard shortcut is command
option B and that's going to show and hide our browser now to really quickly
navigate our browser we're gonna use the keyboard shortcut command F and that's
going to bring us into our search bar so that we can quickly pull in a sound so I
love this sound the synth you giant it's from ian McIntosh's course and right now
the sound that I want to use is actually already at the top but if I wanted to
navigate I could do so using my fourth keyboard shortcut which is the arrows
and the arrows lets you really quickly select a sound and when I want to pull
it in I can just hit enter and that's gonna bring it right into my live set
for me now once you have an instrument in your set you probably are gonna want
to add a clip to that channel strip and you can quickly create a MIDI clip using
the keyboard shortcut command shift M now once I've brought this clip in I can
quickly rename it by using the keyboard shortcut command R which will rename it
and I can come up with a good name maybe groovin line hopefully you can come up
with something better than that and perhaps I'll want to enter in some
notes and once you've entered in those MIDI notes you can quickly hide all of
those details by using the keyboard shortcut command option l now if you
want to go back to see your device or whatever you're using to play you can do
that by using the keyboard shortcut shift tab and shift tab is a really fast
and essential way to move between your device view and your clip view while
you're editing alright friends we got three more keyboard shortcuts so stay
with me till the end here keyboard shortcut number nine is group command G
now this can come really in handy if you are wanting to have everything in one
little container so right now I've got this synth you patch here and this has
already got a lot of stuff in an instrument rack but perhaps I wanted to
add an extra reverb which using the keyboard shortcuts that we already know
command option B to reveal our browser command F to search and then I can just
type in reverb and use the arrows there and if I hit enter it's gonna bring it
right in now if I wanted to group this I can use my new keyboard shortcut if I
select everything command G and that's gonna bring it all into one instrument
rack which gives you all sorts of cool features like your macros your chain
selector and key range the tenth shortcut can be particularly useful if
you're working on editing something that you've played so I'm gonna play this
clip really quickly
and let's say I'm trying to edit it I might want to pause it which I can do by
hitting space but if I hit space again it's gonna start all the way at the
beginning of the clip and sometimes we don't want that especially if the clip
is longer so this tenth keyboard shortcut shift space will allow us to
pick up right where we left off and finally our last keyboard shortcut is
how we get the music out of Ableton which is command shift R and command
shift R will open up our audio export tab now on the right hand side of the
screen I've got two videos here that are gonna help you continue your Ableton
groove journey now if you want some personal one-on-one time learning
Ableton with me I've got a link in the description below that's gonna allow you
to book that time I am here for you and I would love to be a resource for you
thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time on live next