Academy.fm Mastering MIDI Shortcuts, Tips, and Tricks

The piano roll in Ableton Live is packed with useful features and shortcuts that can help you get ideas down faster and improve your workflow speed. In this tutorial, Maxim will go through a ton of tips and tricks that will make a huge difference when writing in Ableton.

He’ll start with tips and shortcuts to quickly create a MIDI clip that instantly loops. Then, he will showcase tons of quick shortcuts and tricks that deal with quantization, duplication, quick note drawing, grid sizes, and more as he writes drums on the piano roll using a Drum Rack.

Later on he will also demonstrate a feature that is unique to Ableton Live 10: multi-clip MIDI editing!