Do you guys finish tracks faster in Session View or Arrangement?

[omarigg]

I’ve been trying to improve my workflow lately and I feel like I get stuck looping ideas in Session View.
I usually use session view to create some clips and mix em togheter, them i put all those pieces in arrangement.
Do you usually start there or go straight into Arrangement?

[jamcat]

Do you guys finish tracks?

[legendCNCD]

Session view is viewed by accident here, its 100% arrangement.

[XorXisT]

Session view is viewed by accident here, its 100% arrangement.

Yeah I only use session view to demo new plugins and do some sound design.

98% of my time with Live is in the arrangement view.

[enroe]

I’ve been trying to improve my workflow lately and I feel like I get stuck looping ideas in Session View.
I usually use session view to create some clips and mix em togheter, them i put all those pieces in arrangement.
Do you usually start there or go straight into Arrangement?

"Session view" - what is that?

Not everyone here uses Ableton Live. There are other sequencer
DAWs as well: Apple Logic, Steinberg Cubase, FL Studio, Cakewalk,
Samplitude, Reaper, ... and several others.

The Ableton manual states:

---- When playing live, or when DJing, the order of pieces, the length of each piece
and the order of parts within each piece is generally not known in advance.
---- In the theatre, sound has to react to what happens on stage.
---- When working along with a piece of music or a film score, it can be more efficient
and inspirational to start with an improvisation, which is later refined into the final product.

This is exactly what Live’s unique Session View is for.

[ksandvik]

It's very personal but I would have a hard time finishing anything in the Ableton Session view. I spend most of my time in arrangement view, as I need to see the big picture of the track. The few times I use Session View is for just fun jamming with nothing special in mind.

[audiojunkie]

That's really the key for me too--jamming and putting together rough demos. But for me, that really helps me get chorus/verse ideas together and improved before actually putting a real song together. So, for me, I think of Session view as a very useful scratch pad for getting started. It would be very unusual for me to actually finish a song with it. That said, I like it and find it useful--possibly even essential.

[kritikon]

Easy answer - arrangement. I don't have a session view.

[Steff1968]

Session view is where I gather my ingredients.
Arrangement view is where I do my cooking.

[seangm]

I use Cubase, I don't think there is a "Session View" in that DAW (could be wrong). I wouldn't even know what that is to be honest. I just try to finish sh*t in the standard arrange window, which doesn't always work out since I have way too many unfinished tracks compared to finished ones.

[simon.a.billington]

Session view is where I gather my ingredients.
Arrangement view is where I do my cooking.

This is something I've been meaning to get around to trying. Well more specifically using Logic's Grid view to record multiple ideas, try them out against each other, then use Tracks view to formally layout these ideas and build the production from there.

I'm just so used to collecting my ideas in Tracks view I always seem to forget the Grid View is there!!

[AmoraMusica]

Session View allows me to really organize myself. Different clips for different moments. Sometimes I'll start at an intro in arrangement view to force ideas.

[Mister Natural]

I love that LIVE users can use it in so many diff ways. I can't speak to any other daw.
Session clips are "studio takes" for me. 8 bars, 32 bars, audio, midi instrument, drum section, what have you. Then copy & pasted into Arrangement sections ex. intro, verse 1, verse 2, chorus 1, etc. It's easy to find surprises within multiple takes.