Let's take a look at the Arrangement View in Live where you can lay out your clips along a timeline
to create a song arrangement, or you can record and edit audio or MIDI directly in the Arrangement View.
In Live the Arrangement View displays the arrangement.
This consists of music you've laid out along the song timeline.
The Arrangement View is an editing tool that easily allows you to combine and arrange MIDI and audio.
You can also automate parameters of the mixer and any devices as well.
The arrangement can be created directly in the Arrangement View
or clips can be created first in the Session View and then recorded or placed into the Arrangement View.
In my current Live Set I have an arrangement. It consists of audio and MIDI tracks.
Within each of the tracks, clips are arranged horizontally along the timeline.
On the right-hand side of Live's interface each track is named and colored.
Next to the track name I'll find the Rooting section for inputs and outputs.
And directly next to that I'll find the Mixer section for Volume, Panning, Muting, Soloing,
Arming Track and Send control.
The Return tracks and Master tracks are found directly above the timeline.
Directly below the timeline, I find the Detail view, which gives me access to the Device view and the Clip view.
And to the left of the Arrangement View, I have my browser.
To navigate my arrangement, I can use the Clip Overview.
The Clip Overview also gives me a visual overview of the entire arrangement.
The Overview can be re-sized simply by clicking and dragging downwards.
I can click and drag horizontally to scroll through my arrangement.
Or I can click and drag vertically to zoom in or out of the arrangement.
By clicking directly into the arrangement background a flashing Insert Marker appears.
The Insert Marker can be moved left or right to select a certain period within a track.
Or across several tracks.
Clips can be moved from one song position to another simply by selecting the clip and dragging it.
You can also move a MIDI or audio clip from one track to another
provided you move them from the same type of track that they originated from.
If you drag a clip into an empty space the track that it originated from will be duplicated.
Clips can be extended or shortened simply by dragging a Clip's left or right edge to change the length.
Clips will snap to the Edit grid.
If you wish to momentarily disable the grid while dragging out a clip hold Cmd on a Mac,
or Alt on Windows while dragging the clip.
In the Arrangement View you can use locators to mark certain points within your song arrangement.
These can be set in one of two ways: You can right-click in the Scrub area,
and select Add Locator or you can position the Insert Marker somewhere along your arrangement
and use the Set button directly above the first track within the Arrangement View.
You can jump between locators by using the arrow cues directly above the Set button.
Or you can select the locators directly in the Scrub area.
To start playback from a locator, simply double-click the locator.
Locators can also be selected during playback.
Live will then move from its current song position to the locator
in sync with the tempo and according to your current quantization settings.
The Loop Brace can be adjusted within the arrangement.
To toggle the loop on or off, simply use the Loop button.
Directly adjacent to the Loop button are the Punch In/Out button.
When the Punch In/Out buttons are both activated you can record within the region of the loop Brace only.
If I wish to duplicate certain sections within my arrangement or delete certain sections of my arrangement,
I can duplicate time or delete time. To do this use the Insert Marker
and select a certain period along the timeline.
This can be done within one track regardless of how many tracks you've actually used.
I'll then go to the drop-down menu under Edit and select Duplicate Time or Delete Time.
Similar to the Session View, the Arrangement View can also have automation.
Whereas in the Session View automation is only in clips...
in the Arrangement View automation can span across clips but can also contain clip automation of individual clips.
To toggle between track content and the track automation of all tracks
I can press the Automation Mode button or I can use the computer keyboard shortcut: A.
Automation that has been added in the Arrangement View can be moved with the clip when the clip is moved.
However, if you'd like to keep the automation in its place then simply toggle...
the Lock Envelopes button directly adjacent to the Automation Mode button.
When this is switched to on, you can move clips and the automation will stay in its place.