User's Manual

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Launchkey’s Session mode provides an 8x2 grid of the clips in your Session View. Example of
Launchkey’s pads in Session mode:
Scenes are rows of clips. Launching a scene will launch all clips in that row. This means that you can
arrange clips into horizontal groups (across tracks) to form a song structure, launching scene after
scene to progress through a song.
Again, access Session mode on your Launchkey by holding Shift and pressing the Session pad (the
bottom left pad).
In Session mode, the pads represent the grid of clips found inside the coloured rectangle in Ableton
Live’s Session View. The image below shows such a rectangle (orange) extending from the left-most
track to the Master track:
Clips are typically loops that contain MIDI
notes or audio.
Tracks represent virtual instruments or audio
tracks. MIDI clips placed on instrument
tracks will play back on the instrument that is
assigned to that track.