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Nevertheless, Live provides this optional visual feedback for signals that travel beyond 0 dB in

any track.

15.2 Audio and MIDI Tracks

Audio and MIDI tracks in Live are for hosting and playing clips, as explained earlier (page

15).

You can add new audio and MIDI tracks to your Live Set’s mixer using the appropriate Create

menu commands.

Tracks can also be created by double-clicking or pressing [Enter] on ﬁles in the browser to load

them, or by dragging objects from the Browser into the space to the right of Session View tracks

or below Arrangement View tracks. Devices or ﬁles loaded into Live in this manner will cre-

ate tracks of the appropriate type (e.g., a MIDI track will be created if a MIDI ﬁle or effect is

dragged in).

A track is represented by its track title bar. You can click on a track title bar to select the track

and then execute an Edit menu command on the track. One such command is Rename. One can

quickly rename a series of tracks by executing this command (or the Rename shortcut [CTRL][R]

(PC) / [CMD][R](Mac)) and then using the Tab key to move from title bar to title bar. When a #

symbol precedes a name, the track will get a number that updates automatically when the track

is moved. Adding additional # symbols will prepend the track number with additional zeros. You

can also enter your own info text (page 7) for a track via the Edit Info Text command in the

Edit menu or in the tracks’s [right-click](PC) / [CTRL-click](Mac) context menu.

Tracks are Represented by Track Title Bars.

You can drag tracks by their title bars to rearrange them, or click and drag on their edges to

change their width (in the Session View) or height (in the Arrangement View).

Multiple adjacent or nonadjacent tracks can be selected at once by [Shift]-clicking or [CTRL]-

clicking, respectively. If you drag a selection of nonadjacent tracks, they will be collapsed to-