CHAPTER 14. MIXING
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14.2
Audio and MIDI Tracks
Audio and MIDI tracks in Live are for hosting and playing clips, as explained
earlier
.
You can add new audio and MIDI tracks to your Live Set's mixer at any time using the
appropriate Create menu commands.
Tracks can also be created by double-clicking or pressing
Return
on les in the Browser to
load them, or by dragging objects from the Browser into the space to the right of Session
View tracks or below Arrangement View tracks. Devices or les loaded into Live in this
manner will create tracks of the appropriate type (e.g., a MIDI track will be created if a MIDI
le or effect is dragged in).
A track is represented by its
track title bar
. You can click on a track title bar to select
the track and then execute an Edit menu command on the track. One such command is
Rename. One can quickly rename a series of tracks by executing this command (or the
Rename shortcut
Ctrl
R
(PC) /
R
(Mac)) and then using the Tab key to move from
title bar to title bar. When a # symbol precedes a name, the track will get a number that
updates automatically when the track is moved. Adding additional # symbols will prepend
the track number with additional zeros. You can also enter your own
info text
for a track via
the Edit Info Text command in the Edit menu or in the tracks's
(PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac)
context menu.
Tracks are Represented
by Track Title Bars.
You can drag tracks by their title bars to rearrange them, or click and drag on their edges to
change their width (in the Session View) or height (in the Arrangement View).
Multiple adjacent or nonadjacent tracks can be selected at once by
-clicking or
Ctrl
-clicking, respectively. If you drag a selection of nonadjacent tracks, they will be
collapsed together when dropped. To move nonadjacent tracks without collapsing, use
Ctrl
+ arrow keys instead of the mouse.
When multiple tracks are selected, adjusting one of their mixer controls will adjust the same
control for the other tracks. If the tracks in the multi-selection have differing values for any
