Reference Manual

209 Recording New Clips
1. Set the Global Quantization chooser to any value other than “None“ to obtain correctly
cut clips.
2. Activate the Arm button for the tracks onto which you want to record. Clip Record buttons
will appear in the empty slots of the armed tracks.
3. Click the Session Record button to record into the selected scene in all armed tracks. A
new clip will appear in each clip slot, with a red Clip Launch button that shows it is cur-
rently recording. To go from recording immediately into loop playback, press the Session
Record button again.
4. Alternatively, you can click on any of the Clip Record buttons to record into that slot. To go
from recording immediately into loop playback, press the clip’s Launch button.
5. To stop a clip entirely, press its Clip Stop button or the Stop button in the Control Bar.
6. To stop playback and prepare for a new “take,” press the New button. This stops the clips
in all armed tracks selects a scene where new clips can be recorded, creating a new scene
if necessary.
Note that, by default, launching a Session View scene will not activate recording in empty re-
cord-enabled slots belonging to that scene. However, you can use the Start Recording on Scene
Launch option from the Record/Warp/Launch Preferences to tell Live that you do want empty
scene slots to record under these circumstances.
16.3.3 Overdub Recording MIDI Patterns
Live makes pattern-oriented recording of drums and the like quite easy. Using Live’s Impulse
instrument and the following technique, you can successively build up drum patterns while listen-
ing to the result. Or, using an instrument such as Simpler, which allows for chromatic playing,
you can build up melodies or harmonies, note by note.
1. Set the Global Quantization chooser to one bar.
2. To automatically quantize the notes you are about to record, choose an appropriate value
for Record Quantization (page 212).
3. Double-click any of the Session View slots in the desired MIDI track (the one containing
the Impulse or other instrument). A new, empty clip will appear in the slot. The new clip will
default to a loop length of one bar, but you can change that by double-clicking the clip