so if you enter your browser, pushing alt+left will move the cursor not only to sessionview, but more importantly to the previous selected clip you had in your sessionview, making it perfect for macro scripting such as opening the browser, selecting a clip and replacing the previous clip with the one selected in the browser. excellent.

@Peter: looking forward to it. a suggestion to this could be 3 categories: novice, intermediate and advanced, novice beeing the basics, intermediate beeing some tips and tricks, such as the zett videos for using simpler to create glitches etc, processing sounds and routing capabilities, and advanced for using live with other applications (such as the video mixer posts youve made) or the littlescale maxmsp patch madness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2szO6ThUQE

:)

Live’s shortcuts should be faster , some of them are 3 Keys , Blender the 3D program has most of their shortcuts as one single and fast key.

This really makes a differece , three keys pressed means three times slower.

The only other thin i dont like about live appart from the Piano roll ( as i come from FLstudio) is that is not fully modular , we should be able to tweak any aspect of the software , make our own strange avant garde setp sequencers , fx and actions , macros , conditions or just anything.

Anyway the video , really usefull .
peace , thanx CDM ;D

For example, on a PC, F12 (in addition to Shift-Tab, which is in the manual) toggles between waveform and FX views

Also, Alt-arrow keys (again, PC… not sure for Mac… and not in the manual AFAIK) will navigate around the different Ableton window areas.

Been a while since I’ve been on Ableton, so I’m not sure if this is accurate for the new version or if the manual has been updated.

Anyway…
video link is much appreciated! The reason I was originally researching all the keys to use in Ableton was to make a bunch of stickers to put all over my keyboard. Problem is, so many of the key combinations have multiple functions, depending on what modifier keys (Option/Command/Control/Alt/Shift) are pressed, and depending on which view you’re in.

Unused keys (PC) as far as I know, for v6 of Live…
Print Screen
Scroll Lock
Pause
~
Backspace (unless it’s the same function as Delete)
Insert
Home
Y
[
]
\
End
Caps Lock
H
;

I think the best thing is to have a balance, use them where appropriate. You’ll see CDM using more video in the coming months, so I’ll have to put my money where my mouth is.

@gsbr – But yeah, I do really like the video idea — and a playlist is great. I’ll get on it. :)

im curious, since you (peter) obviously think its a good idea to collect tutorials in a playlist like this guy did, then why dont make a playlist with the videos that you have collected on ableton live? write it up on the blog, and let people leave links to more tutorials in the comments and then post the result here. im sure alot of people would appreciate it.