Document the split left columns and the continuous song header
The grid's left edge is two columns now, not one. The metadata column
holds a scene's number, BPM and key and nothing else; the Master column
beside it is Live's Master track at the head of a column of its own,
carrying each scene's launcher and role above, and Stop All Clips and
Master's strip below. Both stay pinned while you scroll across the
tracks.
What that changes for a reader: the ▶ is in the Master column rather than
a gutter of the scene's own, the role chip sits beside it, the Songs
heading is no longer tinted with Live's Master color — that color went
with the Master column — and Master's strip is the same size as every
other strip rather than a wider one centred in an oversized cell.
An open song header is one continuous bar across the whole grid, with its
name, artist, facts, tag and flags pinned to the left edge so scrolling
out to track 30 still says which song those clips belong to. The song tag
is gone from the scene rows: every scene of a song carries the same one,
so a column of them said nothing the header hadn't.
Both ASCII diagrams are redrawn and re-aligned. The width table's track
counts are recomputed for the narrower left edge — Narrow fits about 11
tracks now, Wide about 7 — and the 8/16 note says that Master takes a
track's worth of width without being one of the eight.
Two things were stale before this and are fixed with it: "click a scene
name" described a gesture whose target shows no name, and Troubleshooting
still recommended the S column width, which was removed some time ago.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcqKqi7azGSadYatDcsyGD
Document the track status display
The stop row now carries Live's own Track Status Display beside each
track's stop button: the loop pie, a one-shot's countdown and the take
length while recording. Says what each form means, that the countdown is
time left rather than time played, and which two of Live's forms are
missing so a blank cell isn't read as a bug.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcqKqi7azGSadYatDcsyGD
Document the button in every empty slot
Empty slots used to draw nothing, and the manual said so. They now carry
Live's own button at the left of the cell: a square that stops the track,
or — once the track is armed in Live — a red circle that records into
that slot.
Reading the grid gains the pair as part of what a cell can show, and says
that a column of circles is how the grid reports an armed track. Playing
things gains a recording section, and its stopping section now leads with
the per-slot square rather than only the stop row. Both note that a
pending stop shows on the track's header and stop-row button instead of
on the square that was pressed: Live reports a pending stop against the
track, not the slot, so there is no way to know which one to blink.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PxyrR7kVhUaShgE822g19V
Document mixer footer controls
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Document track stop row
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Document the clip launcher
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuDUtsHz4MdrtrvrjaawW4
Group tracks, dragging scenes and clips, meters
Catches the manual up with the grid.
Track groups were described as a header row spanning their members, with a
folded group standing in as a count column. They're columns now — a group is a
real track at the head of what it contains, with a launcher that fires the whole
group and a bar showing how far it reaches. Folding writes back to Live, so it
survives a snapshot.
New page for moving clips, since it overwrites and has no undo — that needs
saying somewhere it can't be missed rather than as a bullet on another page.
Dragging a single scene joins the running order, which is now three ways to
reorder rather than two.
Track headers carry each track's own color from Live, and the meter toggle is
mentioned where the header is described.
Dropped ⌥ from the mouse tables. It used to add to a selection and no longer
does anything; both pages that taught it now say so, since a shortcut people
learned going quiet is worse than one that never existed.