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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Drawing MIDI notes in Arrangement View

Everything is going to be pretty similar to what we covered in the previous section, besides the environment where we are going to do it, and how to get started with it. So, follow along:

  1. Navigate to Arrangement View.

Important note

Because in this practical example, we already have content and launched clip(s) in Session View, we are going to hit the Back to Arrangement button (see Figure 4.13):

Figure 4.13 – The Back to Arrangement button

Figure 4.13 – The Back to Arrangement button

  1. Double-click on where in the timeline you would like to insert the empty MIDI clip – that’s where we are going to input our MIDI notes (for example, the first bar).

Now, we see an empty MIDI clip created. In order to make our MIDI clip longer, we will do the same as we did in Session View.

  1. Head to the Clip View and change the loop Length value, but you will also need to drag out the clip edge on the timeline after you amended...
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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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