
16 Live Concepts
4.2 Live Sets
The type of document that you create and work on in Live is called a Live Set (page 51). Live
Sets reside in a Live Project — a folder that collects related materials — and can be opened ei-
ther through the File menu’s Open command or via Live’s browser.
A Live Set in the Browser.
4.3 Arrangement and Session
The basic musical building blocks of Live are called clips. A clip is a piece of musical material: a
melody, a drum pattern, a bassline or a complete song. Live allows you to record and alter clips,
and to create larger musical structures from them: songs, scores, remixes, DJ sets or stage shows.
A Live Set consists of two environments that can hold clips: The Arrangement is a layout of clips
along a musical timeline; the Session is a real-time-oriented “launching base” for clips. Every
Session clip has its own play button that allows launching the clip at any time and in any order.
Each clip’s behavior upon launch can be precisely specified through a number of settings (page
161).
Clips in the Session View (Left) and in the Arrangement View (Right).
The Arrangement is accessed via the Arrangement View (page 69) and the Session via the
Session View (page 87); you can toggle between the two views using the computer’s Tab key
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