How to use Overdub and Take Lanes in Arrangement View

Both the Overdub and Take Lanes functions are crucial and super useful for your recording workflow in Arrangement View.

MIDI Arrangement Overdub

This function will enable you to add notes to an existing MIDI clip without writing over the content of it. This is something that happens automatically in Session View. However, in Arrangement View, it needs to be enabled.

Let’s say you have some drums already programmed into a clip. Then, you realize that you’d like to add some extra hi-hats to the sequence. You head to the clip, start recording, and you notice that the already programmed notes are being replaced by the new hi-hats (see Figure 4.21):

Figure 4.21 – Recording without Arrangement MIDI Overdub enabled

This is happening if the overdub isn’t enabled. So, let’s hit the Overdub button to turn it on (see Figure 4.22).

Now, if you start recording again...