← First Contact
Mission 02 · World 1
Interface Tour
Every panel, named.
Eight regions. Learn them once, never get lost again.
+60 XP🏅 Cartographer
// WHAT IT DOES
Live's window has eight main regions: Browser (left), Main view (centre — Session or Arrangement), Detail view (bottom — clip or device editor), Transport (top), Help bar (very bottom), and the right-hand groove pool.
Most beginners only ever look at two: Main view and Detail view. That's normal.
Think of it like → Like learning a new car: once you know where the wipers are, you never think about it again.
▸ WHY YOU CARE
- • Knowing where things live makes every tutorial 10x faster.
- • You stop hunting for buttons and start making music.
// SEE & HEAR IT
TAP A REGION
Click any labelled region of the fake Live window to learn what it does.
▸ HOW IT WORKS
Each region is a panel that can be shown or hidden. The triangle handles let you collapse anything to reclaim space.
▸ Signal flow — watch the dot
▸ SIGNAL FLOW
Glowing dot = your signal travelling through Live.
▸ LISTEN FOR
- • Nothing — this lesson is visual.
▸ WALKTHROUGH (3 steps)
- 1. DO: Click the bottom-left triangle to hide the Browser.▸ LISTEN: Main view widens — more room to work.
- 2. DO: Click the bottom-right triangle to show Info View.▸ LISTEN: Hover anything — a description appears.
- 3. DO: Press Tab.▸ LISTEN: Main view swaps Session ↔ Arrangement.
▸ COMMON MISTAKES
- ✗ Working with every panel open on a 13" laptop. Hide what you don't need.
- ✗ Missing the Info View when stuck — it explains every control on hover.
// QUIZ (QUICK)
Question 1 / 30 correct
What key toggles Session/Arrangement?