Ableton Forum

can this be done in Live 10, or there's still no way to do this?
by locking tracks I mean that clips cannot be moved or edited on a selected track when this feature is switched on.
I need to know this, if it doesn't have this feature I won't be upgrading this time.

No, you cannot do this in Live 10.

huge
friggin
bummer

thanks!

Dude, I think you could do the same thing by doing a "save as" . ???

best,

hoo-boy, would "LOCK" ever be a welcome feature.

from what i can see, even freezing a track won't protect you from inadvertently moving its clips (usually, after you've really broken significant sweat positioning them exactly the way you want).

i hereby add my own personal "big bump!" on this one.

just as a serving suggestion, it might be nice if it worked either by locking the clips themselves withinin a track (so that you could still add new clips to a track without changing any that are locked), but also offer the option to lock all of a track's clips relative to the set's start point ("global 1.1.1.") so that nothing in the entire track can move anywhere.

regards to all,
O99

One reason Live lacks things like these is that they are another failure point for live performance. At least you could view it that way. I must admit that I never have issues with inadvertently moving clips. I do not miss this feature at all. But to avoid overwriting stuff, I do use exclusive arming.

point taken about the performance liability aspect. i guess that when considering one's feature expectations it's always worth bearing in mind that LIVE has an active... well, "LIVE-style," and that it gets out a lot.

O99

looking for locking tracks too... ie i have mixer midi program changes for sends in a column that should move along other cells
so i'm thinking of copying the full track, making changes and pasting it back.... just a thought if that helps
peace

You can save tracks to your user library if you’re worried about overwriting them.