Session View vs. Arrangement?

[pottering]

Maybe this playlist helps you, it is for Live 9 and the instructor uses a software that highlights the mouse cursor:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 1HusfjzFqJ

[Digital Larry]

I've just started getting the hang of Live after trying it on and off for at least 5 years. I've used MIDI sequencing since the 1980's and linear DAWs (SONAR) for at least 20 years and I still found this concept baffling until quite recently. I don't know if this helps, but I now think of Session View as a way of setting up "paint rollers" that can be used to "paint" looping sections of music into the arrangement view. This process is 1-way only. You can "paint" music from session to arrangement view, but stuff that you record in arrangement view will never appear in session view unless for example you go out of your way to copy a section of audio or MIDI from Arrangement View and then paste it into a clip in Session view.

My approach to composition is old-school rock and roll, not so much that I sound like Elvis but I think of songs as having verses and choruses and you have a small number of instruments (like the people in a band) who play all the way through the song. Live barely acknowledges the possibility of such a quaint approach. No, your music must be made up of little clips that you turn on and off in real time to make a composition. I think this is the downfall of many YouTube demos... they don't conceive that anyone would use Live in a different way. I'm sure I've watched dozens of YouTube videos about Live and most of them absolutely stink, at least for me, because I already know what a pan control does and I already realize that click-dragging moves a clip while control-click-dragging copies a clip. Don't get me started on videos which feature some person "auditioning loops". JUST PICK ONE!

Now I'm using session view to set up sections of a song. e.g. verse, chorus, solo. Don't feel like you have to turn clips on and off while they are playing. It is OK to just have a scene play through and then switch to the next scene when it's time to go to the chorus and so on. You could "paint" the sections into Arrangement view 1 by 1, either switching scenes in real time as it records or stopping between each one. Then you can record things like vocals or solos into arrangement view.

[S4racen]

back to arrangement - the search term to read the manual with.

Cheers
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[Digital Larry]

back to arrangement - the search term to read the manual with.

Cheers
D

Thanks for pointing that out.

[jonljacobi]

a previous post here mentioned the "back to arrangement" button but doesn't explain. Please explain because i'm confused about that too.

It only appears in the arranger when you’re recording or playing a clip in the session screen. I believe.