Ableton Live 8 Keyboard Shortcuts
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- F1
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- Eject
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- ⇧
- fn
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- ⌥
- cmd
- cmd
- ⌥
- Showing & Hiding Views
- Adjusting Values
- Browsing
- Transport
- Editing
- Loop Brace & Start/End Markers
- Session View Commands
- Arrangement View Commands
- Commands for Tracks
- Key/MIDI Map & MIDI Keyboard
- Zooming, Display & Selections
- Clip View Sample Display
- Clip View MIDI Editor
- Grid Snapping & Drawing
- Global Quantization
- Working with Sets & the Program
- Working with Plug-Ins & Devices
⌃F11
Toggle Full Screen Mode
⇥
Toggle Session/Arrangement View
⌃F12
Toggle Track/Clip View
?
Hide/Show Info View
⌘⌥B
Hide/Show Browser
⌘⌥O
Hide/Show Overview
⌘⌥I
Hide/Show In/Out
⌘⌥S
Hide/Show Sends
⌘⌥M
Hide/Show Mixer
⌘,
Open Preferences
⎋
Close Window/Dialog
↓↑
Decrement/Increment
delete
Return to Default
⌘
Finer Resolution for Dragging
.,
Go to Next Field
⎋
Abort Value Entry
↩
Confirm Value Entry
↓↑
Scroll Down/Up
←→
Close/Open Folders
↩
Set Selected Folder as Browser Root
↩
Load Selected Item from Browser
⇧↩
Preview Selected File
⌘⇧F
Activate Browser Search Mode
↓
Jump to Search Results
␣
Play from Start Marker/Stop
⇧ ␣
Continue Play from Stop Point
⌥ ␣
Play Arrangement View Selection
F9
Record
F10
Back to Arrangement
F1...F8
Activate/Deactivate Track 1..8
⌘X
Cut
⌘C
Copy
⌘V
Paste
⌘D
Duplicate
⌫
Delete
⌘Z
Undo
⌘⇧Z
Redo
⌘R
Rename
⌘A
Select All
⇧
Move Start Marker to Position
←→
Nudge Loop Left/Right
↓↑
Move Loop By Loop Length
⌘↓↑
Halve/Double Loop Length
⌘←→
Shorten/Lengthen Loop
⌘⇧L
Select Material in Loop
↩
Launch Selected Clip/Slot
←→↓↑
Select Neighbouring Clip/Slot
⌘A
Select All Clips/Slots
⌘⇧M
Insert MIDI clip
⌘I
Insert Scene
⌘⇧I
Insert Captured Scene
⌘↓↑
Move Nonadjacent Scenes Without Collapsing
⌘
Drop Browser Clips as a Scene
⌘E
Split Clip at Selection
⌘J
Consolidate Selection into Clip
⌘⌥F
Create Fade/Crossfade
⌘L
Loop Selection
⌘I
Insert Silence
⌘⌥
Pan Left/Right of Selection
⌘F
Scroll Display to Follow Playback
⌘T
Insert Audio Track
⇧⌘T
Insert MIDI Track
⌘⌥T
Insert Return Track
⌘R
Rename Selected Track
⇥
While Renaming, Go to next Track
⌘G
Group Selected Tracks
⌘⇧G
Ungroup Tracks
+
Show Grouped Tracks
-
Hide Grouped Tracks
⌘M
Toggle MIDI Map Mode
⌘K
Toggle Key Map Mode
⌘⇧K
Computer MIDI Keyboard
+
Zoom In
-
Zoom Out
⇧
Drag/Click to Append to a Selection
⇧
Click to Add Adjacent Clips/Tracks/Scenes to Multi-Selection
⌘
Click to Add Nonadjacent Ctrl Clips/Tracks/Scenes to a
Multi-Selection
⌃⌘F
Follow (Auto-Scroll)
⌘⌥
Pan Left/Right of Selection
⌘U
Quantize
⌘⇧U
Quantize Settings...
←→
Move Selected Warp Marker
⌘←→
Select Warp Marker
⌘F
Scroll Display to Follow Playback
⇧←→
Move Clip Region with Start Marker
⌘U
Quantize
⌃⌘⇧U
Quantize Settings...
⌘F
Scroll Display to Follow Playback
⇧←→
Move Clip Region with Start Marker
⌘ ←→ ↑↓
Select Next MIDI note
⌘B
Toggle Draw Mode
⌘1
Narrow Grid
⌘2
Widen Grid
⌘3
Triplet Grid
⌘4
Snap to Grid
⌘5
Fixed/Zoom-Adaptive Grid
⌘
Bypass Snapping While Dragging
⌘6
Sixteenth-Note Quantization
⌘7
Eighth-Note Quantization
⌘8
Quarter-Note Quantization
⌘9
1-Bar Quantization
⌘9
Quantization Off
⌘N
New Live Set
⌘O
Open Live Set
⌘W
Close Live Set
⌘S
Save Live Set
⇧⌘S
Save Live Set As...
⌘Q
Quit Live
⌘H
Hide Live
⌘⇧R
Export Audio/Video
⌘⇧E
Export MIDI File
⌘⌥P
Show/Hide Plug-In Windows
⌘
Open Second/Multiple Windows with Ctrl Plug-In Edit Button
⇧
Open Mac Keystroke Plug-In Window with Plug-In Edit Button
⌘G
Group/Ungroup Devices
⇧
Click to Append Devices to a Selected Device
↩
Load Selected Device From Browser