Now use the computer keyboard or an external controller to record music. Double-click on the MIDI clip to open the MIDI Note Editor, set loop length to a reasonable length, arm the track in the clip’s Mixer Section and start recording by clicking into the small triangle next to the clip name. You should see an empty MIDI clip which we’ll name FUN-WITH-SCORES. You should see a new track called “9 MIDI.” Copy LiveScore Viewer for instance by alt-dragging the device from another track onto the newly created track and right-click or ctrl-click on the first clip slot to insert a MIDI clip. Right-click or ctrl-click on the track named “8 Kit-606 Classic-1” and choose Insert MIDI Track from the pop-up menu. Let’s record a few new notes to a new clip. You can also use the mouse to add new notes by double-clicking (Mac and Windows) or ctrl-clicking (Mac). press “o” if you want to transpose your notes and octave higher). Select the notes you want to alter and refer to Shortcuts for Editing for a list of possible shortcuts (e.g. Of course, you can also change or add notes just with LiveScore Viewer without having to even switch to Clip View. If you copy the first three notes and paste them at the beginning of sequence, those notes also immediately appear in the score. When you go back to LiveScore, you’ll notice that the change you made is reflected in the score. Grab the first note and move it up an octave. First let’s switch to Live’s Clip View with shift-tab. Now we are ready to change a few notes in the ELEC.PIANO clip.

Add or change notes in Live’s Clip View manually.

The clip viewer updates its content dynamically, whenever you Now, grab the scroll bar and scroll through the entire line. In most cases, the default setting will yield a good enough result. There are also a few quantization options ranging from quarter note-triplets to 32nd notes. You might find that it’s easier to read the line in bass clef, so select bass from the Clef menu. The piece is in F major, so if it’s not already displaying it, choose the proper key signature from the Key Signature menu. If everything went fine, you should be able to see the transcription of the piano accompaniment.

In Live Session View click on the track called 3-Keys-Acoustic-Piano.

You just opened a pretty cheesy arrangement of What a Wonderful World.

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