00:00Let's take a look at Live's Session View,
which allows you to play with musical ideas using clips.
00:06Unlike traditional music software, where ideas must be laid down
linearly on a timeline, the Session View allows you to mix
00:14and match ideas without committing
to a specific order or arrangement.
00:19The basic unit we're working with in the Session View is called a clip.
A clip can either be audio or MIDI.
00:26It can be as short as a single drum hit or as long as a full song.
00:31And clips can either play through once as one shots,
or they can loop the material they contain.
00:39Over in my browser I have this hi-hat loop
and I'd like to add it to the Session View.
00:45To do this, I click and drag it to where it says
"Drop files and Devices Here" and let go.
00:51If I look to the Detail View at the bottom,
I can see whether this clip is audio or MIDI,
00:56and notice that a new track was created for me.
01:00I can resize the track by clicking and dragging on the edges here
01:04and I can do this for multiple tracks by holding down Shift, selecting
the tracks that I want, and clicking and dragging on the edges again.
01:13Now I'd like to play the hi-hat loop so I hit the play button for the clip
01:18and I'd like to add my drums to the mix, so whenever I'm ready,
I'll trigger the Drums clip.
01:26Notice that Live waited a little bit after I triggered the Drums clip
to start playback.
01:32This is because Global Quantization is enabled
and it allows everything to remain in sync.
01:39Let's add the chords to this.
01:43At the bottom of each track is the Track Status display that shows us
important information about what's playing on the track,
01:51including how many times the clip is looped,
where along the clip we're at, and how many beats long the clip is.
02:01If I turn looping off, I can see how many seconds are left
in this one shot before it stops playing.
02:10Let's turn the loop back on and trigger the chords again.
02:16And let's add the bass.
02:20I can stop playback on any clip by hitting one of the stop buttons
on the corresponding track.
02:27Say I wanted to start and stop the bass
and the chords at the same time.
02:33To do this, I'll click and drag the chords
so that they are next to the bass.
02:37Hold down Shift and select both the bass
and the chords and hit CTRL G on Windows
02:42or Command G on Mac to group these two tracks together.
02:48I can then open and close the group here and now I can start and stop
playback for both clips at the same time.
03:00A row of clips is called a Scene. If I want to trigger a scene,
I can click the corresponding play button underneath the Master.
03:08Let's trigger the second scene.
03:19You can think of each scene as a different section of your song.
03:23To label a scene, I'll right-click and hit Rename.
03:27I'll call this first scene Verse and the second scene Chorus.
03:33I can also color-code each scene by right-clicking
and selecting the color.
03:41If I want to get even more organized,
I can right-click on the scene again, hit Select All Slots and Scenes,
03:47right-click on any one of the clip slots and give it all the same color.
03:54If I drag on the Master track to the left, I can also set
the individual BPM and time signature for each scene.
04:02This is useful if you want to do a tempo change
midway through your track.
04:08Let's go to the chorus.
04:13And then I'll play the last scene.
04:17Notice that my Lead stopped playing when I switched to the last scene.
04:21This is because the stop button underneath the Lead clip was enabled.
To get rid of the stop button, I'll right-click and hit Remove Stop Button.
04:31Now when I go from the Chorus...
04:36to the last scene, the Lead keeps playing.
04:43Let's go back to the Verse.
04:47I'd like to record something on my piano track, so I'll arm this track here
and whenever I'm ready, hit the Session Record button at the top.
05:04I can hit the Session Record button again to stop recording
and start playback.
05:10This allows me to remain in the flow of the performance.
05:17Let's switch to the Chorus.
05:21Over on the right side, I can customize the look
of my Session View.
05:26I can choose to minimize the Ins and Outs,
Sends and Returns,
05:32the mixer, Track Delay, CPU metering which allows me
to see how much each track is using the CPU,
05:45I can assign different tracks to either
the A or B banks on the crossfader.
05:51Let's assign the drums and the bass to A.
05:55And chords and lead to B.
05:58Now, if I click and drag the crossfader left and right,
I can fade between these two banks.
06:14Let's hit the stop button over on the bottom corner of the Master track
to stop all clips...
06:20And I'll go ahead and minimize some of the elements
that are displayed in the Session View.
06:27Now, what I'd like to do is record
my performance into the Arrangement View.
06:32So I'll hit the stop button a couple of times
to reset the transport back to 1.1.1.
06:37And whenever I'm ready, I'll hit the Arrangement Record button
at the top and start triggering clips.
06:52We'll switch to the chorus.
06:57If I switch over to the Arrangement View,
I can see all this material being recorded.
07:07Say I'm done with my recording. I'll hit the stop button at the top
and play back from the beginning.
07:14I want to replay my recording, so I'll hit the 'Back to Arrangement' button
over on the bottom-right of the Master track.
07:22And now I'm hearing the recording from the Arrangement View
as opposed to the Session View.
