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4. 50%
5. 63%
6. 75%
7. 88%
8. 100% (eight pads lit)
For steps with multiple notes, the probability is independent for each note. That is, if a step has 2
notes with a probability of 50% assigned to the step, there is a 50% chance for each note to trigger.
This means sometimes only one note may play, sometimes both notes will trigger, and other times
neither note will trigger – their probabilities to play are exclusive.
A step may only have one probability value – it is not possible to have a 100% chance for one note to
trigger, and a 25% chance for another note on the same step to trigger.
The default Probability value when recording or assigning notes is 100% meaning that all the notes on
a step will always play. Clearing steps, patterns and projects will also reset all probabilities to 100%.
9.7.2 Printing Probability
Printing a clip to Ableton Live will calculate probability for each relevant step a single time. Print a
pattern several times to get repeatable variations of the pattern across multiple clips. See 9.11 Print
to Clip for more information on this function.