Muting Arrangement View content in Ableton Live 9

[Morgal]

Hi!

I use Ableton Live 9 with an Akai MPK Mini. I composed a full song but I'd like to try performing it by my midi key/controller. The problem is when I start playing a clip it also starts the content of the Arrangement View - this is pretty annoying.

Is it possible to mute all content in Arrangement View when I'm playing midi clips with my controller pads in Session View? Or I have to erase the Arrangement View area?!

Thank you for reply!

[thecontrolcentre]

Mute the tracks you don't want to play.

[Nig]

Click on the midi clip you want to mute and press the number '0' to turn it off

[hibidy]

In the upper right area of the arrangement view there is a button called "back to arrangement" that allows arrangement to play. When you go back to the session view, you must select that button in the bottom right near the master fader.

EDIT: actually, it's automatic here where if you select a scene it goes back to being able to work in the session view.

[elxsound]

In the upper right area of the arrangement view there is a button called "back to arrangement" that allows arrangement to play. When you go back to the session view, you must select that button in the bottom right near the master fader.

EDIT: actually, it's automatic here where if you select a scene it goes back to being able to work in the session view.

That is the trick... Launching a scene automatically selects Session only.

If you only play a single clip after playing back in Arrangement view, then it will playback the clip in addition to the rest of the content in arrangement view (minus the track with the playing clip).

[BDeep]

What hibidy and elxsound sound. I'd like to add to that, that if you don't want to start a scene in the session view, but just individual clips, then you have to click the stop button next to the "back to the arrangement button"*. That will stop the arrangement and you can launch clips to your hearts content without the arrangement playing.

*it's located in the Session view, in the Master channel on the right, between the fader and the scenes, the square button.

EDIT: reading back, that is EXACTLY what hibidy said

[hibidy]

Well there you have it. I do think it's a little confusing.

[Mister Natural]

practice, practice, practice

[Morgal]

Thank you all! I've tried it and it works. I've also tried tapping that mute all clips button the cursor still goes in Arrangement View but I only hear my performance by the midi controller.

Yeah I still need more practice. I've been only using Ableton Live for a couple of months (migrated from FL studio).

[hibidy]

That's actually ok. Glad that you were able to get it sorted, like I said, it's not obvious. Live is a performance tool to some, it's not always clear where the line is.

[BDeep]

Thank you all! I've tried it and it works. I've also tried tapping that mute all clips button the cursor still goes in Arrangement View but I only hear my performance by the midi controller.

Yeah I still need more practice. I've been only using Ableton Live for a couple of months (migrated from FL studio).

Actually, I don't think there's a way to play clips without the timeline scrolling in the arrangement view, so this is expected. I believe this is to cater for (amongst other things) recording your actions in the Session view into the Arrangement view. Don't really know how to do that though, still have to experiment.

[shanecgriffo]

yes i find that if i record a fadeout, say at 3 mins in the arrangement, then when i am just noodling around in the session window, it fades out after 3 mins..any way to stop that, apart from deleting the fade automation?

[elxsound]

yes i find that if i record a fadeout, say at 3 mins in the arrangement, then when i am just noodling around in the session window, it fades out after 3 mins..any way to stop that, apart from deleting the fade automation?

No.

It's better to add a 3rd party plugin to handle volume fades, or even Utility if you don't need to completely mute the signal. Free-G by Sonalksis works great for this, but there are some other that can do the same.

http://www.sonalksis.com/freeg.htm

[Eanna]

EDIT: actually, it's automatic here where if you select a scene it goes back to being able to work in the session view.

I know - dead thread, but this is the only place where I found this info.
Thanks for this! Never knew how to stop an arrangement from playing once you had worked on it. Meant that adding new clips in Session View... Well, I didn't know how to!
It is probably a RTFM moment. In which case, yeah, I'm guilty.

Anyway, thanks again @hibidy.

[Eanna]

Double post - where's the "Delete Post" button?!