The BEST Way To Arrange Your Tracks - Ableton Session View Tutorial 

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Brilliant @Josh, much more inspiring than starting an arrangement with an empty canvas. Will put this to the test straight away. Thanks a million 🙏🏻

What I love about this way of working, is that it allows you to later use your tracks to play live gigs. Thats awesome, thank you. Nice track btw.

As someone entirey new to Ableton, coming from Logic years ago, this was sick to watch you build out a song in real time using session view. Most tutorials just show how to swap between the two and briefly touch on Session but this shows the power of it. Sick!

Here goes the start of my Ableton journey….🎉

thanks for these videos bro, learning Ableton has been made easy thanks to u

Thanks, this is perfect for where I'm up to at the moment I've been playing around and making full sounds and wanted to know how to separate them out and make an intro, a drop and other parts. So this is exactly what I need to see. Subscribing to your channel, you can be my tutor. Definitely keen to see part 2 after I've gone away and put this to practice.

Great vid, great style of teaching and great tune. Had fun packing the microgreens and learning from you today. B back soon mate. Thanks. Jay 😉🌱

Not seen this idea on RU-vid but it's totally a powerful use of.ableton functionality. Took me a while to work this way myself but it's the future! It's easy to get confused in Ableton because of the possibilities but one thing this approach does is let you go mad with experimentation and then make sense of it later. I can have multiple ideas in one channel and multiple tracks that I can then play with and discover happy accidents with combinations of track sounds and clips. Not sure you covered it but a key part of my workflow these days is playing with all kinds of mixtures of clips to discover arrangements that feel good and then use the 'capture and insert scene' to create that mix in one scene with all the relevant clips aligned horizontally. This way I can start another set of scenes below all the madness of my experimentation that form the arrangement in a sort of progressive way. That way it's just a case of progressing through the arrangement scene by scene. Once that's done, like you I'll get into the fairy dust and automation in the arrange page. You could even export groups at this point for some self-imposed limitations to keep you focussed on mixing or mastering duties. With a good workflow I think Ableton can give you maximum creativity and functionality. Great vid and probably saved some people a ton of pain!

I remember discovering Ableton over 10 years ago and realising how amazing the session view is for building tunes in a non linear fashion; blew my mind. Do you feel more people should be making beats this way? I still see a lot of people start their tunes in the Arrange view - for me, you're not using Live as it was made to be is you do that. Now that I've got off my soapbox, good vid! good luck with the channel mate.....

Really helpful! Nice pace to the video dude, good to follow along with.. Big ups from Cornwall!

Amazing, simple and effective tutorial, thanks lot, and such a cool song is that!

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Dope, I revisit this a few times, expanding my commitment to Session view, thanks G, linked up 🍭🍬🖤

A joy to watch ❤

great vid and love your music,

Great Process!

Great one, really clear, Josh!!🎉

Love this😊

This one was solid. Much appreciated!!

So the best way for arrangement is not using arrangement view but session view. How does the rest of ableton work, to make melodies you need the drum kit and for synt sounds you select a drumcomputer?

Thank you very much!!

is there a way, on session view, to scroll through tracks individually and launch different clips in different positions?

That's how i make my Hip-Hop Beats on Ableton

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thank you so much! helps so fucking much bro

This is cool thank you!

Hahahha i loved your workflow. Thanks for the knowledge!

Thanks!

Great vid on doing the arrangement in session view. This would be amazing with push 2. Have you tried it?.

So, when you're arranging, you want to use session view. Got it.

I do the same but literally use one clip for each element then use a launchpad to trigger and record the result. Means you can instantly and spontaneously record the track rather than create an arrangement in session. I use this method to play live sets at gigs. I condense the elements into 8 groups to fit the midi controllers paradigm with a beat repeat and filter on each. First group kicks n snares, second other percs and so on... means each time to play your session, it's different. Check my page for examples.

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IS it possible to create a song from session view? Thanks man

Is there a way to tell ableton to sequentially play each scene for a specific amount of bars automatically?

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Can't understand that heavy British accent. Skipping.

terrible tutorial, please demo from the start next time