docs/personalizing/Live session panel

live session:
what it sees, on screen.

The panel down the right side of the app is the visible half of Project Sense. Your tracks as tonee has them, a log of everything it has changed, and the state of the connection, all without switching windows to check.

01 /The track list

The panel refreshes about once a second while you're connected, so it follows your set as you work in Live rather than waiting for you to send a message.

Track list

Every track in the open set, in order, in its own Ableton colour. Mute and solo are reflected as you toggle them in Live.

Selection

Click a track to focus it. Click it again to deselect, so nothing stays pinned by accident.

Waveform

A preview of the selected track, for audio tracks. MIDI and group tracks don't reserve the space.

Recent actions

A running list of what tonee has committed, newest first, with the time it happened.

Status line

Connection state, the Live version you're on, and Ableton's audio load.

If a track name looks stale: the panel is the fastest way to tell whether tonee is actually seeing your rename. If the panel already shows the new name, so will your next message.

02 /The action log

Every change tonee commits lands here as it happens, one line per write. It's the record of what was actually done to your set, separate from the chat, which is tonee's account of it.

recent actions

21:14Set Threshold on Glue Compressor

21:14Add 'Glue Compressor' to DRUM BUS

21:09Add 38 notes to ACID LN

21:02Rename track to SUB LO

Per chat

Switch to another chat and the log switches with it, so you see what was done in that conversation.

It comes back

Come back to a chat later and its log is restored, so the record outlives the session you made it in.

Committed only

A change you cancelled at the confirmation card never appears. It never happened.

Not the undo history

This is a log, not a control. Undo is still something you ask for in the chat.

Worth a glance after a long instruction with a lot of moving parts. It's a faster read than scrolling back through the reply.

03 /Analyzing a track

Select an audio track and the panel offers Analyze. It's a shortcut, not a separate feature: pressing it sends an ordinary message asking tonee to analyse that track, and the answer streams into the chat like any other reply.

Audio tracks only

MIDI and group tracks have no audio file to read, so the button is disabled with the reason on hover.

One turn at a time

Disabled while any reply is streaming, the same rule that greys out the message box.

For MIDI, listen instead

Fire the clip and let tonee hear it (see Listening).

What comes back is the same breakdown described on Listening: frequency balance, dynamics, stereo image, and anything that looks off.

04 /The status line

Along the bottom: a dot for the connection, the Live version behind it, and an audio figure on the right.

connected · ableton 12

The bridge is up and tonee can see your set. The version is read from Live itself.

ableton not connected

Live isn't running, isn't reachable, or the control surface isn't enabled. Start with Troubleshooting.

audio 14%

Ableton's own audio-engine load, the same number as the meter in Live's control bar. Not your computer's CPU.

Audio load is Live's number, not the system's: it climbs with your device chains and buffer size, and it can read high while your machine is otherwise idle. If it's pinned, that's a set to optimise, not a tonee problem.

05 /Making room

The panel collapses to a thin strip when you want the width back for the conversation, and the split between the track list and the action log can be dragged if you'd rather see more of one than the other.

On a laptop screen, collapsed is often the better default: the status dot is the part you actually need at a glance, and it's still visible.

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