Ableton Live 8: Group Clips with Track Groups
If you’re using Ableton Live 8, you’ve hopefully already discovered the joys of Track Groups. Track grouping is a welcome feature in any DAW, but in Live, the mixer-centric Session View can easily get unruly with endless columns of vertical tracks.
I wanted to share some discoveries about Track Groups, including what I thought was a big realization about how they worked with clips that turned out not to be as exciting as I thought.
To group tracks, select multiple tracks first (click one, then shift-click the last one), right-click (ctrl-click on Mac), and choose Group Tracks. The result – what’s basically a submix:
- You can save space by collapsing tracks in your view, clicking the triangle at the top of the Group
- You can add insert effects to the whole Group, and signal will be routed through that entire chain (making them like a quick send)
- You can control the whole “submix” Group at once using the Group’s mixer parameters
No surprise there. Here’s the surprise.
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