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I have been thinking of a way to improve on Ableton Live's mixer section. I came up with this new mixer page. I think having a more detailed channel view, that you can have on a second display, alongside the arrange page, would help with mix downs and final mix tweaks. Being able to see more of each channel strip, and for them to populate as you select a track, in either window, would make this process much more intuitive for mixing. I want to see larger faders and better metering at this stage of writing and mixing.

The scene page becomes obsolete, once you have arranged the track, but the mixer is attached to this page. That makes 2/3rds of this window unusable at the arrangement part of creating a track. That’s lots of lost display that could be used more effectively for mixing.

I often have long channel strips that are hard to work with, but having them display on the screen above the mixer, when you select a track, would allow you to see much more effects in that channel strip. making things easier to see and get around.

Having each effect fill a slot in the clip view, would make it easier to see what is happening on each channel, plus to be able to select that effect, if it is a third party VST, so it opens the GUI, would be amazing. I feel you could enable the mix button feature on Push 2, to switch Push to this new mixer page, and having the clip buttons select and open that said plugin slot, in that clip slot, making Push become part of the arrangement stage of track creation. as the macros for the mixing.

i think theres an open second window option in one of the file edit menus. you can for now open the second window and diplay the mixer on it and drag it onto a second monitor. (i think its there, my computer isn't on right now else it would check this for you...but search the menus, there's a second window option)

heres how to use second window
https://youtu.be/bsMMhegTKH0

your idea is different however at least you can have the arrangement and mixer view on different monitors

I am fully aware that you can use 2 displays. I do this every day, but the entire clip section in the scene view is obsolete, once a track is arranged. This is why I think there should be a more developed mixing environment. Live needs this so bad. They have never developed it since version 1.

very true, even i was wondering if they can make a separate window for mixer+ arrangement view, it would be very handy if you're not using the sessions view.