Exploring Capture MIDI

Have you ever spent some time jamming some melodies over some drums, or vice versa, and you came up with something really cool along the way, but you didn’t press the record button?

Well, the good news is, even though you didn’t press the record button, Live “captured” your MIDI notes along the way, as it is always “listening” to the armed MIDI tracks.

Let’s try it!

In this example, I am going to come up with a different drum sequence to the existing bass line in Arrangement View – however, this feature works the same way in Session View:

1. First, mute the already programmed drums.
2. Then, bring in a different Drum Rack preset from the browser onto a new MIDI track.
3. Put the Metronome on and set the loop to embrace the clip of the bass line.
4. Next, start jamming some drums over the bass melody.
5. Then, stop playback and hit the Capture MIDI button (see Figure 4.24):

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