This is why we sometimes see the orange ‘back to arrangement view’ button lit up at the top of our project. The most important thing to understand is that when we make edits to clips in arrangement view, they will not alter the clips in session view.Ībleton’s audio can only play either session or arrangement view at any one time, not both. Once we have a rough track laid out in session view, we can then continue to work on our ideas, to build our arrangement and add extra tracks and clips as we go. This allows us to take our ideas and ‘map’ them onto the time domain (arrangement view) this gives us a clear indication of the start, middle, and end of our track and start to make things a little more concrete for how the track is going to come together. Session view is also how most live performers choose to use live.Īt some point, this colour pallete can then be used to ‘paint a picture’ or create a full arrangement in arrangement view. This is simply a ‘colour pallete’ of all of your ideas, where your free to move them around, edit them and see how your different tracks and clips interact with each other. this is a place where ideas can be born and developed, clips can be built and an arrangement can be drafted without the worry of anything being too permanent. Session view is where most projects start out. What happens in one view DOES NOT happen in another. To break this down in as little words as possible, Session and Arrangement view are almost completely separate entities from one another.

In this video we cover the differences between session and arrangement view.

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