Navigating and Understanding Live

Course Progress

In this course, you’ll get a roadmap of Live’s interface and get a basic understanding of every feature of Live’s interface.

Understand how to navigate Live’s interface

Understand Session View

Understand Arrangement View

Understand when to use session and arrangement view

Understand the difference between clips and tracks and their relationship in live

Understand the grid in Live and how to customize it’s view

Understand the timeline in Live and understanding the relationship of clips to the timeline

Understand Global Quantization and why it’s the “secret sauce” of Live

Understand the tempo and time controls in Live

Understand the transport controls

Understand loop and punch in/out controls

Understand key and MIDI mapping controls

Understand locator and automation controls

Understand detail view

Understand clip view

Understand device view

Understand info view and why it’s the most important place in Ableton Live

Understand Live’s browser and how to use it to quickly work in Live

Understand the groove pool in Live

Understand Live’s preference pane

Understand how to customize Live’s appearance, to optimize for live performance

Understand how to use Help view to quickly learn Ableton Live

Understand how to save and share Ableton Live files

Understand how to use Live’s file manager to find missing files