Why You Should Be Using Session View in Ableton Live

Should you use Session View in Ableton Live? Well... I think its one of the most powerful tools Ableton Live has to offer. Whether you're a music producer, beat maker, or guitarist, Session View will allow you to write music faster and realize new ideas you never would have thought of.

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Session view tweaks the traditional DAW approach; instead of working on your song from left to right in time, you compose individual clips that you can trigger in any order or combination. This allows you to change your song arrangement on the fly, and try new combinations you wouldn't ordinarily try. Its like a songwriting hack sometimes, and I use it with every single song at the beginning of the songwriting process. Once my ideas are locked down and I have a basic structure, i'll record the ideas to the arrangement view, which is Ableton Live's traditional DAW timeline approach. Another awesome aspect of Ableton Live's session view is that its very applicable to live performances.

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[djrobincooper]

I've used Ableton for years pretty much exclusively in arrangement view as I'm old AF and I grew up on cubase. For some reason this simple video has finally made me realise how to use session view properly

[josephgoddard]

You have no idea how much this tutorial helped my dude.

[SweetScaleTV]

I agree session view is the way to go! Great tip!

[dareokeowo]

About the red line showing on your session view. I've seen this multiple times and I wonder what it is and how you make it appear on your screen.

[Flightcoach]

awesome video. Ableton Noob here... still very confused why many youtube creators seem to only use arrangement view... I find it confusing to follow their tutorials

[cainKuri]

Thank you... I'm actually at the point if I need to use this view for the way I create my songs...

[TheGhostchaser]

I’ve noticed that in some of the other videos I’ve watched, the demonstrators get session view and arrangement view backwards and start calling one, the other. Hence, confusing the viewer.

[DemitheDaredevil]

thanks for the vid! Anyone know if tempo changes are automatically recorded when you are transferring from session to arrangement?

[TonyThomas]

Working non-linearly can be much more efficient!

[mpekim]

Ableton seems to be extremely versatile from the videos that you’ve shown me. It’s definitely a DAW to consider getting once i get enough money and ditch SONAR cakewalk

[famousbeats]

I got Lite version and I'm planning to use it for songwriting (cuz its limited to 8 tracks) and the make the production in my main Daw.
thanks for the video

[loverennabeats]

Thank you for this ! and I love your glasses!

[neveoney]

Nice Tutorial ! I also have Ableton Live 10 Suite and Logic Pro X and I'm just looking for the workflow. Logic is very high quality, but especially for House production Ableton Top and the session is super fast and creative...I can finish all the building blocks from the track and then into the arrangement you mean?

But I find the same with FL Studio ...a super workflow, how do you see it?

[JS-wdbk]

Thanks for the tutorial.I use session view for sketching, then its scenes for arranging, transitions and clip automations included.I find it more intuitive and fun.I think that's what live was being used for in the beginning. For me vertically makes more sense.(my opinion).Reminds me when I started, using trackers like FT2.

[shreepadgandhi]

If i have 3 clips say C1, C2 and C3 is midi track 1
And
3 clips say C4, C5 and C6 in midi track 2
.
Is it possible to set the sequence of clips to be played in my final mix...?
Say for example C3, C4, C1, C6, C5 and lastly C2...
.
I haven't yet understood how clips behave by default and then how to change the default way if any...
.
Many thanks in advance from Pune, INDIA

[ClarkPotter]

Why do some tracks not have play buttons in session view? That has been frustrating me because I don't know how to play with looping them.

[leoopokat]

I started in session view really hard to go back

[bwah]

Use de-esser please, lots of sibilance (your s' are sharp). Thanks for the tutorial though, was helpful

[fredbarnes]

How do you do MIDI takes in session view? It just does overdub?

[apexmusic]

1:07 This is the session view, not the arrangement view.