For Ableton Live 10 Users - The Fold button in Live’s MIDI editor can be used as a reference guide to show notes from a scale. This can help us come up with strong melodies, basslines, chords, and arpeggiators with minimal music theory knowledge. It’s simply a quick technique to make sure you’re in scale)

REQUIRMENTS

Ableton Live 10 or newer

Free Scaled Clips Project Template

o save you some time we made a project template including all the Major, Minor, Pentatonic and the Major modes scales in all the 12 keys. (Download below)

The project will include a group track. Inside the group track you will find 10 MIDI tracks each one with 12 MIDI clips covering all the keys in each scale.

Next to the Scaled Clips group track you will find another MIDI track with a piano instrument you use straight away to test out the Scaled Clips.

To use it efficiently create a folder on your computer and call it Templates. Then click Add Folder in Live’s browser and add your Templates folder.

Next, Drag the Scales Group Track to the Templates folder in the browser.

Now you can access any scale clip and simply drag to any project you are working on directly from Live’s browser.

When loading the scaled clips into your project make sure the Fold button is on.

Have fun!

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