the timeline:
where a session becomes a song.
Lay your loops out into sections, repeat a chorus, move things around. Everything on this page happens in Ableton’s Arrangement view; building the loops themselves is section 10.
01 /Session vs timeline
Ableton has two places a clip can live. The session grid holds loops you trigger. That’s where you build a part. The arrangement is the timeline: the song laid out left to right, bar by bar. tonee treats “arrange”, “the timeline”, “inline” and “the arrangement” as the same request.
tonee can tell which view you’re looking at, so “delete the clip at bar 9” doesn’t need you to say which grid you mean. And it only goes near the timeline when you ask for it: “make me a drum loop” stays in the session.
02 /Placing clips
Takes the clips from the session grid and places copies on the timeline at the bars you name. tonee switches to the Arrangement view afterwards so you can see the result.
"arrange all my MIDI into three 8-bar sections on the timeline"A single session clip, on the same track or a different one. Positions are always bars. Bar 1 is the start of the song.
"put the chorus clip at bar 9"A new MIDI clip directly on the timeline, at a bar and for a length in bars. MIDI tracks only.
"make an empty 8-bar clip at bar 33 on the pad track"03 /Extending a song
Once something is on the timeline, tonee can copy it along: one clip, or a whole span across every track. Naming sections with markers lets you talk about the song the way you’d talk to a collaborator.
Copies a clip that is already on the timeline to another bar, on the same track.
"copy the clip at bar 9 to bar 25"Copies every clip in a span of bars, across all tracks, keeping each part where it enters inside the section. If a destination bar is already taken, that clip is skipped and tonee tells you which.
"repeat bars 9-16 at bar 25"Sections are markers. Name one and tonee works out the span from that marker to the next. If it’s the last marker there is nothing to bound it, so tonee asks how long it runs rather than guessing.
"put a marker called Chorus at bar 9" · then · "repeat the chorus"04 /Editing what is there
Slides a clip to a new bar, keeping everything inside it. If the destination is taken, tonee tells you what is in the way rather than moving anything.
"move the clip at bar 9 to bar 11"Trims or extends a MIDI clip, keeping its start where it is. Shortening keeps the first bars; extending repeats the loop into the extra space, the way dragging the edge does. Automation drawn inside the clip does not survive a resize, and tonee says so before it does one.
"make the clip at bar 1 four bars long"Adds or removes notes inside a single timeline clip, and that copy only. The session clip and every other copy are untouched. tonee won’t add a note where it could never be heard, or on top of one that is already there.
"make the bassline in the second chorus busier"Removes a clip from the timeline. Its notes, name, colour and warp settings can’t be rebuilt, so this is the one arrangement edit tonee cannot undo. Press ⌘Z in Live. tonee will say so before it does it.
"delete the clip at bar 17"Session or Arrangement. tonee can also read which one you’re looking at, which is how it knows what you mean by "here".
"show me the arrangement"05 /Requirements
Below 12.3, tonee declines to place or create clips on the timeline and tells you why. Editing the notes inside a clip that is already there works on Live 11 or newer.
Updating tonee installs it. If the plugin is behind, tonee says so rather than trying and timing out. It isn’t a connection problem.