By playing the notes one at a time in the C major chord, you played an "arpeggio. Try playing an arpeggio with those same notes in this order: C2, E2, G2, G2, E2, C2 we'll come back to this arpeggio in a moment. You can play the notes in a chord in any order you like. This will place an Arpeggiator effect into the Device view at the bottom of the screen, which will create arpeggios.
Then drag Chord onto the title bar of track 1. This will place a Chord effect into the Device view, which will create chords. This will place an Auto Filter effect into the Device view. All of these effects will enable you to modify the sounds of the clips in track 1.
Near the bottom right corner of the picture below, the Clip View is highlighted with a red rectangle. You can watch the vertical black line in the Clip View as it moves from left to right, showing you which notes or chords are being played.
Now turn on the Arpeggiator effect by clicking the round button at the top left corner of the Arpeggiator, highlighted with a red rectangle. Click the Gate value next to Rate and drag down until it's at the minimum level, then slowly drag up until it's at the maximum level.
Turn off the Arpeggiator effect and listen to the chords for a moment, then launch the first clip in track 1. This is the same chord progression as the second clip, but it only has single notes. Turn on the Chord effect and notice that the first clip with the Chord effect on sounds exactly like the second clip with the Chord effect off.
This is because we set the Shift 1 and Shift 2 values in the Chord effect so that it will shift the notes in the first clip by the same number of steps semitones which are between the notes in each chord in the second clip. Now, here's where things get interesting.
With the first clip playing, turn off the Chord effect so that you hear a single note being played in each bar. Since the first clip doesn't have any chords, the Arpeggiator effect can only play the same note over and over in each bar. Now turn on the Chord effect. This takes the single notes from the Arpeggiator and turns them into chords.
While the first clip is playing, click the title bar of the Chord effect and drag it left until it's before the Arpeggiator effect, then release the mouse button. Now the Chord effect is turning the single notes in the first clip into chords, and the Arpeggiator effect is turning those chords into arpeggios.
The thing to notice here is that the effects are processed from left to right, so the order of the effects can make a dramatic difference in the sound. While the first clip is playing, turn on the Auto Filter effect so that all of the effects are on. In the Auto Filter graph area, click the orange circle highlighted with a red rectangle in the picture below and slowly drag it around, left and right and up and down, and notice how this changes the sound.
Try clicking the buttons below the graph area highlighted with a red rectangle in the picture below and then dragging the orange circle in the graph. If Fold is activated, only rows containing notes are displayed. Any notes to the right of the loop will be moved, so that they maintain their position relative to the end of the loop. In both cases, your actions are selection-based: you select something using the mouse, then execute a menu command e.
As we have seen, notes in the MIDI Editor can be moved both horizontally changing their position in time and vertically changing their transposition. They can be moved either by clicking and dragging, or with the arrow keys on your computer keyboard. Notes moved with the arrow keys are always subject to grid and offset snapping, while notes dragged with the mouse can be freely moved until reaching the previous or next grid or offset point.
If you are playing the clip while you edit notes, you can listen to them play in their new assignments as you change them. Selecting a note or notes makes it subject to commands from the Edit menu, such as Copy and Paste. Notes in the clipboard will be pasted starting at the location of the insert marker. When editing or drawing, you may sometimes place a new note on top of one that already exists. If the new note overlaps with the beginning of the original note, the original note will vanish.
Tip: To set a group of notes to the same length, select them all, grab the end of the longest one, drag them all down to zero length and then extend them. The standard clipboard commands like Cut, Copy and Paste only affect the currently selected notes or the notes within a time selection.
But, as in Arrangement editing see 6. First, you can quantize MIDI notes as you record them see Secondly, as previously mentioned, you can move notes so that they snap to the visible grid lines. The first time you do this, you will see a dialog box with several quantization options. This will quantize using default settings, or the settings that you previously applied. To adjust your quantization parameters, open the Quantization Settings dialog from the Edit menu.
Using the options presented here, you can select either the current grid size or a specific meter value for quantization and set either the note start or end or both to be quantized. Quantizing the note end will stretch the note so that it ends at the chosen meter subdivision. To help you locate the velocity marker belonging to a MIDI note that may be stacked vertically with others, Live highlights the velocity marker for whichever note your mouse is hovering over. As in the Note Editor, you can select multiple velocity markers to change by clicking with the Shift modifier held down.
Tip : To set a group of notes so that they all have the same velocity, select their markers in the Velocity Editor, drag them up or down to either maximum or minimum velocity, and then adjust velocity to the desired value. As we saw earlier, Draw Mode allows drawing identical velocities for all notes within a grid tile. While in Draw Mode, velocity drawing is limited to only those notes that are currently selected.
Tip : To draw a velocity ramp with notes that are all in the same key track, click a key in the piano roll to select all notes within the desired key track. Make sure Draw Mode is activated and draw the ramp into the Velocity Editor. This will affect only the selected notes. Tip 2 : To draw a linear velocity ramp across a selection of notes, first select the notes that should be affected using the Shift modifier to select non-adjacent notes if necessary.
Notes in the Note Editor display their velocity in their coloring — light notes play softly, and vice versa. This means that, with one horizontal motion and one vertical motion, you can draw multiple notes and their velocities without releasing the mouse button. If you change velocity with this vertical movement, Live will remember the change and use your new velocity on any notes that you draw afterward. Velocity values can also be entered manually by first selecting the velocity marker, then typing the numerical value on the computer keyboard and hitting the Enter key.
Holding the Shift key allows fine-tuning the values of selected velocity markers. Velocity values can be randomized by first clicking in the Velocity Editor lane, which will change the Randomize Range slider to an integer value. Clicking on the Randomize button will then randomize velocity values for selected notes or notes with selected markers. If no markers are selected, values for all notes will be randomized. The Randomize Range slider, at the right of the Randomize button, allows specifying a randomization range that can be applied to velocity values.
Velocities values will be randomly increased or decreased by a value between zero and the number shown in the Randomize Range slider. Velocity values will be chosen randomly from within the range specified. Positive values will increase velocity, while negative values decrease it. By pressing a desired note on the piano roll, you can select all the corresponding notes within a MIDI clip. Recommended: Ableton vs FL Studio? Simply by turning on loop and adjusting these parameters, you can loop your clip in both expected and unexpected ways.
Adjusting these parameters will allow you to change between different sounds on your synthesizer through MIDI, or even to change between completely different synths! Another great use for this is to draw some notes in before the start of a clip before 1. What this does is allow you to add modulation and envelopes to a clip itself, instead of over the whole track.
Doing these means you embed the modulation into that clip, making it part of the pattern. Part of the fun with this is when you record it with something like a MIDI keyboard or controller. Once this is done, arm the new track and record it, letting it play through the MIDI.
Once done, you should get a new clip with the MIDI effect applied:. You can then adjust global parameters in the groove pool below the browser — you can set random timing, quantize the notes before, change the strength of the timing and more.
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