Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Ableton Live That Will Change Everything

In this video I'll show you how to use Ableton Live's key map mode to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts, along with all the great shortcuts built into Ableton have helped me speed up my workflow for production, mixing, and mastering!
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0:00 Intro
0:38 How It Works
2:11 Record
2:38 Metronome
2:57 Set Locater
3:18 Punch In/Out
3:42 MIDI Capture
4:20 Gain
6:02 Save as Default Set
6:55 Outro

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[dan_tanna]

Thanks Bro!!! I've been using Ableton since version 5 and just now made shortcuts thanks to you!

[GaryCorben]

You're a star! Tried to switch to Studio One 6.2 but its such chaos after Live 11 and nothing is obvious even C&V. But I decided to bring some of the good features back into Live and one was to stop being lazy and set up key shortcuts - so that I can really be lazy lol

[manimusic]

had no idea you could do this! great tutorial man 🔥

[bcraigcraig]

Hi I am new to Live and I still use Logic I am trying to find a way to map a keyboard start of the play head to the Return Key so the play head can go to the beginning how do I do that ? Thanks great video

[marioaveni]

Great tut! I've just got ClipGain but I find it hard to map it out with Ableton Live 11 for Mac. I cannot drag the floating icon with mouse. Could you please elaborate on how to use it?

[erfannazarian]

Can I change Shift+Space to Space button ?

[PromoMIAR]

Thanks. Anyone know if or how you can change SNAP keys? (Always found CTRL 1, 2, 3, 4 etc a pain)

[hazel]

Hi, i couldn't map my clip gain like yours, how did u do it? HELPPP

[masgangbrand]

Helpful, good stuff! Thanks Still trying to figure out how to keymap muting a selected track. Deactivate is 0 right?

[dimazanya]

you have to do this for every session?

[cpj]

can you map the piano roll? also more complex things like fades, automation types, like lots of the things you can do in ableton? switching to abletons biggest issue is that it isnt straightforward to just port in whatever daw your used to's hotkey layout you have made, why isnt all the potential hotkey options in a list where you can just assign new key commands to what you want like logic? somethings ableton does so well, other things are terrible.