Trying my best

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Feb 7, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:

> The key to live is realizing that the clips window and the arrangement
> window are totally unrelated.  the clip window is  a place to keep
> parts of the song and try out different permutations and combinations.
> the arrange window is where you layout your ideas linearly.
>
> clip view = lateral thought
> arrange view = linear thought.
>
> It took me a while to get that.  now that I do, I really love live and
> its workflow.  Live 7 finally brought ive to the point where I have,
> pretty much, ditched cubase.


Which is completely and entirely Ableton's fault with those damn  
tutorial project things. Every-time I look at them they tend to want  
you to ignore the arrange window, and have you record and do stuff in  
the clip view, I always get frustrated at some point and close it.