It is also used for manual MIDI sequencing.
The Arrangement View is used for recording tracks from the session view and further manipulating their arrangement and effects.
The Arrangement View offers a horizontal music production timeline of Clips that is more similar to a traditional software sequencer interface. When moving on to the next scene, which may feature a synth bassline, the artist will trigger the scene, activating the clips for that scene. For instance a drum, bass and guitar track might comprise a single scene. These clips can be arranged into scenes which can then be triggered as a unit. The Session View offers a grid-based representation of all of the Clips in a Live Set. MIDI triggers notes on Live's built in instruments, as well as third party VST instruments or external hardware. triggered) or played back in a pre-arranged order. Live utilizes audio sample or MIDI sequences, referred to as Clips, which are arranged to be played live (i.e. Live's user interface is composed of two 'Views' – the Arrangement View and the Session View. Live itself was not prototyped in Max, although most of the audio devices were. They released the first version of Live in 2001 as commercial software. Ableton co-founders Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke, and Bernd Roggendorf developed Live from homemade software that Behles and Henke had created to facilitate their live music performances as Monolake.
