Reference Manual

88 Session View
1. Each clip in the Session View has a triangular button at the left edge. Click the button with
the mouse to “launch“ clip playback at any time, or pre-select a clip by clicking on its
name, and launch it using the computer’s [Shift] key. You can then move on to the neigh-
boring clips using the arrow keys. Please refer the manual section on clip launch settings
(page 161) for details on how to customize this behavior.
2. Click on a square Clip Stop button to stop a running clip, either in one of the track’s slots,
or in the Track Status field below the Session grid.
Clips can be controlled remotely with the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller (page 477).
They can even be mapped to MIDI note ranges so that they play chromatically.
Clips can be played at any time and in any order. The layout of clips does not predetermine their
order; the Session grid offers random access to the clips it contains.
Notice that, even if you stop playback for a Session View clip, the Play button in the Control Bar
will remain highlighted, and the Arrangement Position fields will continue running. These fields
keep a continuous flow of musical time going, so that you can always know your position in song
time during a live performance or while recording into the Arrangement (page 94), regard-
less of what your individual Session clips are doing.
You can always return the Arrangement Position fields to 1.1.1 and stop playback for the entire
Live Set by pressing the Control Bar’s Stop button twice.
The Arrangement Position Fields and the Stop Button.
Slots in Group Tracks (page 196) show a shaded area to indicate that at least one of the
contained tracks contains a clip in that scene. The color of the shading is the color of the left-
most clip in the group. These group slots also contain launch buttons which will launch all of the
respective clips. Group slots which have no corresponding clips contain stop buttons. Clicking in
any group slot selects all of the clips it refers to.