User Manual

The ▲▼◄ ► buttons let you navigate session view. The red outline in the Session

View grid shows the area currently visible on Launchpad X.

Note: This outline may appear in any colour - this won’t affect its function.

• Press a pad to play the corresponding clip in Ableton. The colour will match

between the screen and pads.

• When a pad is pressed it will flash green, indicating that the clip is queued

and will soon begin to play. When a clip is playing, the pad will pulse green.

• Only one clip may play at a time per track. Pressing an empty clip will stop

the current one on that track.

• A horizontal line of clips is called a

Scene

. Scenes can be triggered using the

(scene launch) buttons on the right-hand side of Launchpad X.

When a track is record armed (see

Mixer Mode

), you may use the [O] button

(Session Record) to enable overdub recording of the currently playing clip.

Pressing and hold Capture MIDI to capture any recent playing and place it into a

MIDI track. If no clip was playing on the armed track, Ableton Live will place the

MIDI notes into a new clip. If a clip was playing, the MIDI notes will be overdubbed

onto that clip.