From the course: Ableton Live 10 Essential Training
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Selecting, zooming, and playback - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live 10 Essential Training
Selecting, zooming, and playback
- [Instructor] In the last video, we began to take a closer look at arrangement view. Let's continue by taking a look at how to make selections, zoom in and out, and how to start and stop playback. Let's start by taking a look at how the cursor shape changes depending upon where you put it. So you'll notice that right now, I've got a selection shape. And that allows me to click and put my cursor at a specific point and time, or if I want I can click and drag to make a selection. But if I move my cursor over a clip, notice that it turns into a hand cursor, which allows me to select the entire clip. Now that's handy, but what if I want to select a point within that clip to make an edit? Well to do that, I need to make sure that the track height is not at that minimum height; I need to increase it. And then when I've moved my cursor above the clip, on the top half, I get the hand shape. And as I move it lower, it turns into the selection shape. Also, if I move it over to the edge, it…
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