Mar 12, 2018 Mastering the keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live is an essential skill to make your writing and production sessions more fluid, maintaining creative flow and more effortlessly executing your ideas as they come to mind (and to hand). For beginners, this list and PDF is also a great resource to learn key features of Ableton Live. Feb 15, 2018 Hey, Is there anyway to change Live's keyboard shortcuts? One I definitely need to disable is the space bar as the play button. Too many things can go wrong with that one during a set.
Whether you’re an experienced user or just getting familiar with Ableton, years of experience teaching students have shown us that learning your short cuts can really make a difference in your workflow, freeing up time to experiment and create. So with this in mind, Point Blank Ableton Tutor, Freddy Frogs, has put together a list of the 20 most useful shortcuts, including some new to Ableton 9. Freddy has found the best way to learn these is to print them out, so for your convenience we’ve created a quick reference A4 print-out to stick on your wall.
Shortcuts for Ableton 9 (Mac)
CTRL + Z – Undo (the mother of all shortcuts)
SPACE – Play/Stop
SHIFT + TAB – Toggle between device view and clip view (what do you want to see? Your effects and synths or your MIDI editor?)
CMD + A – select all (select all notes or clips)
B – Draw mode (do you need your pen?) Scratch live video crack.
CMD+D – Duplicate (you can quickly copy your clips/tracks/scenes/MIDI note)
CMD+1/2/3/4 – Adjust grid size (Are you programming short MIDI notes or long ones? )
CMD+ S = Save (Ableton continuously saves your work in progress but you never know)
0 – deactivate notes/clips (new to live 9)
ESC – Abort value entry (it also let’s you get out of the search engine or the MIDI map mode)
SHIFT + SPACE – Play from stop point (you will wish you knew that one earlier)
CMD + J – consolidate selection into clip (The programmer’s favourite tool)
CMD + L – Loop selection (Highlight the background and loop it)
CMD + R = Rename selected clip/track (Keeping things tidy)
How to download sounds to ableton. +/- – zoom in zoom out (The magnifying glass tool can be difficult to use so here is an alternative)
CMD + U – Quantize (add CMD + A before that and you have a combo)
TAB – toggles arrangement and session view (Classic!)
Delete – return to default (this works for many different features including volume faders or pan pots)
CMD + SHIFT + I – Insert captured scene (Ideal to capture the clips that are playing and create a new scene out of them)
CMD + E – Split clip at selection (Do you need to edit a small part of a clip? ) [button size=”small” window=”true” color=”orange” link=”http://www.pointblankonline.net/courses/ableton-live-courses.php”]Click here for information on all our Ableton courses[/button] This post is included in Ableton Tutorials, News, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
I made a great Downloadable PDF for the Ableton Live keyboard shortcuts I use the most. I don’t really go into the super basic shortcuts like copy and paste and etc but listed more unique ones. They are listed in order of how much I use them. If you don’t want to download the PDF and sign up for my Ableton tips newsletter, you can view the shortcuts in the table below. BTW, I send out the ABLETON tips newsletter about 2 times per month and you can unsubscribe anytime.
Speed Up Your Ableton Workflow With These Keyboard Shortcuts
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I made this PDF so easy to print and set next to you computer. It was real fun to make and I actually learned some new ones like CTL-ALT-L to raise and lower the piano or audio effects tab (super helpful right?). I am constantly opening that thing up and down. I hope it can help speed up your Ableton workflow and help you make more awesome music.
If you are dying to tell us about one of the Ableton Keyboard shortcuts you love, please leave a comment below, lets get this post cooking.
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