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MIDI capture

MIDI capture - Ableton Live Tutorial

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MIDI capture

- [Instructor] At times the recording process can create some anxiety and result in recordings that don't sound as spontaneous or as creative as when you were working out the ideas. The new MIDI capture feature in Ableton Live helps solve this issue by capturing everything that you play. Later you can go back and listen to what you played, select the parts you like, and edit any mistakes. So I've got a simple drum and keyboard preset on these first two tracks. So the capture feature only works on MIDI tracks, and it only works when those tracks are either record enabled, which you can do by clicking the record button on the track, or if you've clicked the end button under the word monitor, which would place the track in input monitoring. Now if there's nothing in the set, and the transport is stopped, when you get done experimenting and playing, Live will automatically try to determine the tempo and set loop points. So I'm going to put the track in record, and then I'm going to play a…

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