From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent
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Creating click tracks - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent
Creating click tracks
If you have Click tracks before, it was probably in something similar to Ableton's arrangement view. Find your click sample in the browser, drag it into an audio track. Duplicate the sample until the track is the right length using command or control d. Since our set needs to be in session view, you will now select the length of the track and use Cmd+J, or Ctrl+J on Windows. To consolidate all the duplicates into a single audio clip. To transfer it into session view, click and hold, Tab to switch views, and release to drop into a click slot. While this method works just fine, it's not my preferred way of creating click tracks for a large project like this. But some do. Instead, I use MagiClips that trigger the clip sample in a simple Ableton device, like Simpler or Impulse. Let me show you how that works. In a MIDI Track, double click on a slot to create a one-bar MT MagiClip. Down here, in the clip's MIDI Editor. Double-click on C3 to create a MIDI note. Let's click Full for a better…
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