The selected notes will be the same musical note but transposed an octave. Once selected, press SHIFT and then the up or down arrow. SHIFT + Up/Down Arrows – Select the notes that you want to shift up or down an octave. Hold the SHIFT key and press the right arrow to extend the note and the left arrow to shorten the note. SHIFT + Arrow Keys – When composing in the piano roll you can extend the length of a selected note or notes. Working in the piano roll can be a lot easier too! Check out these shortcuts to speed up your composing. An easy way to stretch a sample to fit where you need it. SHIFT + Drag – This is a cool one, you can stretch audio clips by holding the SHIFT key and dragging the end of the clip. This is especially helpful in automation mode. Toggle Fade Controls With Fį – Sometimes finding the right fade curve to adjust is tough, holding the F key will show the fade sections of all of the audio clips. Deactivate Midi or Audio ClipsĠ – To quickly deactivate a clip, click on the clip to select it and tap 0 on the keyboard. Just click on the clip you want to reverse and tap the R button on your keyboard.
Reversing your clips with keyboard shortcuts is much quicker. R – I used to spend a ton of time opening the clip view to searching for the reverse button. Tap CMD + E on your keyboard to quickly split the clip. Splitting Midi or Audio ClipsĬMD + E – Splitting clips is made super easy by moving the play marker to the part of the clip you want to split. This will insert a new blank Midi clip within the highlighted area you selected. Thankfully, inserting a Midi clip is as easy as highlighting the length of the clip you want and pressing CTRL + SHIFT +M. That means a lot of notes to write in Midi clips. Insert A Midi ClipĬMD + SHIFT + M – If you’re using Ableton Live, you’re likely using soft synths as well. Just highlight the area and press CMD + J, now there is a new consolidated clip on each track. You can consolidate clips on multiple tracks too. Easy peasy, just highlight the area that you want to consolidate and press CMD + J. You want to save your creation as a single wave file so you can move it around easily. Consolidate ClipsĬMD + J – Let’s say you’re chopping up some samples in Live. Dragging them around will morph the envelope.Ĭlips are a fundamental part of Ableton Live and there are many shortcuts that make working with clips easier. Highlight the section of the envelope you want to morph and click on one of the dots that appear around the clip. Highlight + Click + Drag – Ableton lets you morph your envelopes in the automation lane. Instead of stepping your drawing the envelope will be drawn smooth. If you want to bypass this while drawing automation curves, hold CMD while drawing. Bypass Snap ModeĬMD + Draw – If you have your grid turned on in arrangement view, drawing an envelope will result in strange stepped shapes. Click one to add it to the automation lane. At the bottom of the click menu you will see 10 shapes. Simply highlight the area you want to add the curve to and right-click.
Highlight + Right Click + Select Shape – Ableton comes with 10 pre-defined curves you can add to your automation envelopes. Using curves will help smooth out the automation and gives you more control over what you hear. OPT + Drag – You can add curves to your automation lanes by holding OPTION and dragging a section of the envelope. You can also right click on any existing breakpoint and select “Edit Value” to edit the value of that breakpoint. Turns out, there is a shortcut for that! When adding a breakpoint, right click on the envelope and select “Add Value” to choose the value you want to set your breakpoint at. Usually I would just expand the track view to get close to the value I want. I always struggled with setting my envelopes at the correct value. Right Click -> Add/Edit Value – This is a super helpful tip that I just learned not long ago. Tapping the B key will toggle between draw mode and breakpoint mode.
Toggle Draw Modeī – Automation envelopes can be either drawn in with your mouse or can be set with breakpoints. Tapping the a key on your keyboard will toggle between automation tracks and clip tracks. Toggle AutomationĪ – New to Live in version 10 was the toggle shortcut for automation. Many people are not aware of the awesome shortcuts you can use to make the most of the automation lanes. Who doesn’t love automation? Ableton Live has probably the best automation platform of all of the DAWs.
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