Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

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Where do you spend your time in Live

Session view, never in arrangement view
6
10%
Mostly session, very rarely arrangement
4
7%
Mostly session, sometimes arrangement
12
20%
both equally often
9
15%
mostly arrangement, sometimes session
11
19%
mostly arrangement, very rarely session
9
15%
always arrangement
8
14%
 
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Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by golemus2 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:46 am

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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by Pasha » Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:28 am

Create in Session View. Arrange & Refine in Arrangement View. More or less 50% of the time each.
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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by Synthbuilder » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:22 am

Virtually everything I do is in the arrange window. The session view is simply my mixer and my routing.

I had worked with the traditional Cubase linear arrangement (on Atari) pretty much all my midi life until Live 5 and old habits die hard. In fact I don't actually like using session view. There's something that is too ephemeral about having all those clips in there without a proper place in the track.

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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by fx23 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:32 am

absolutely all in session, never in arrange.

if your goal is to end up with a liveset.(or even work on a track) you all sketch in session. session is live strenght.
there is no equivalent to quick test various arrangements, quick build primitives ect.
the pb is if going then to arrange, man is blocked and can't revert back to session. on the other side man can't tweak knobs and rec in session.
this is Live NB1 flaw imo, linked to the clip concept and the relative/absolute stuff, lack of session automation layer.
so fixing it you would fix the 2 real huge major live problems according to me. i dream of that for so long.

i wish i could sketch in session, go in arrange and work more precisely over time, then retransfert to some scenes in session
to be re-playable as a live set, and why not re-moded ect seamlesssly.
that the logical way and what ableton logo suggest. that you can tab 90° without pbs. but we can't
im very sad it's not sorted yet. I see it as two too much separated entities, the concept could be much more powerfull
if a clip was same in booth imo.

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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by chapelier fou » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:46 am

Doing live : session only.
Recording : Arrangement + session for triggering some clips.

That simple.
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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by deanthomastunes » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:56 pm

Pasha wrote:Create in Session View. Arrange & Refine in Arrangement View. More or less 50% of the time each.
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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by mihai » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:19 pm

a fairly equal mix of both. i'll get started in session to put together ideas and such,
move to arrangement to put the record together, and finally do the mixing in session.

mixing in session helps because i see more channels so i move around faster, less side-scrolling.

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Re: Do you use Session view or Arrangement view more often?

Post by condra » Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:39 pm

The results show how people use Live in such different ways, according to their needs.

Live really has become a very flexible audio laboratory.

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