User Manual

10
Session Mode
Ableton Live’s Session View
Session mode is designed to control
Ableton Live’s Session View
, seen below.
If you’ve never used Ableton Live before, we recommend visiting our Easy Start
Tool (see
Getting Up and Running
). Here you’ll find your included Ableton Live 10
Lite download code (if you choose to register your Launchpad X), alongside videos
covering installing, the software’s basic features, and how to get started making
music with your Launchpad X in Ableton Live.
Session View is a grid that consists of
clips
,
tracks
(columns) and
scenes
(rows).
Session mode provides an 8x8 view of your clips in Session view on Launchpad X.
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.
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.
A row represents a
scene, highlighted is
scene “9”.
The yellow column
shows a track,
titled “1 Rhodes”.
Clips