In this video I illustrate how to make custom names for notes or ranges of notes appear in the MIDI editor. The second trick shows a quick way to double the output of your computer keyboard.
In this video, I show how to make a simple 4 step sequencer using Clips and Ableton's devices and how it can be extended to have as many steps as you desire.
The technique shown in this video could also be useful if you want to try out new ways of coming up with sequences. It can be fully MIDI controlled and you can save the devices you came up with.
In this second part we see how you can change the tempo and/or time signature by triggering a scene, how you can expand the Mixer View and how to capture and insert a scene.
On the Ableton forum there's a thread entitled "Stuff in Live you wish you figured out a long time ago". In this thread people post about the features that weren't that obvious when they started with Live. You could be using Live for years and still discover a feature that has always been there.
This thread is getting literally and figuratively as vast as Live itself, making it harder to find the stuff you haven't learned yet.
As a solution to this growing problem, I figured it would be helpful to have some of these features condensed in short videos. Instead of mentioning these type of features as an aside in bigger tutorials.
In the first part I show two simple things. How to resize multiple tracks in the Session View and how you can start the transport from where you last stopped.
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