[This is extracted and reproduced from the Ableton Reference Manual https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/comping/)
Comping makes it possible to pick the best moments of each recorded performance, and combine them into a composite track (also known as a “comp”). Live can create and organize individual takes from your recorded material, allowing you to piece your favorite parts together. You can store alternative versions of a clip arrangement on multiple take lanes. You can also drag samples from your library onto take lanes and use comping as a creative sample-chopping tool.
(Note: comping is not available in the Lite Edition.)
Take Lanes
Every audio or MIDI track in the Arrangement View (see Chapter 6) may consist of multiple parallel lanes. The first lane of a track is the main lane, which is always available and is audible by default. A track can also contain an arbitrary number of take lanes, which serve as a container for clips that were recorded or manually added to them. Take lanes are never audible, unless Audition Mode (see 18.5) is enabled.
Take lanes are automatically created when recording new clips in the Arrangement (see 18.3), and they can also be inserted manually (see 18.2). You can toggle the visibility of take lanes by choosing Show Take Lanes from a track header’s right-click(PC) / CTRL-click(Mac) context menu, or using the CTRL-ALT-U(PC) / CMD-ALT-U(Mac) keyboard shortcut. Note that this only toggles the visibility of existing take lanes. Take lanes are not visible when Automation Mode (see 21.5) is enabled.
Inserting and Managing Take Lanes
You can manually insert a take lane into one or multiple selected tracks, via the Insert Take Lane entry in the Create menu or a track/take lane header’s right-click(PC) / CTRL-click(Mac) context menu, or using the Shift-ALT-T keyboard shortcut. Inserting a take lane will also immediately show all take lanes, if they were not already visible.
Selected take lanes can be deleted using the Backspace or Delete key, or via the Delete command in the Edit menu.
Selected take lanes can be resized vertically by pressing ALT-+ or ALT--, or by pressing ALT while using the mousewheel. Multiple selected take lanes can be resized by dragging the resize handles with the mouse. When holding the ALT modifier, all selected take lanes are resized simultaneously, similar to tracks.
You can reorder selected take lanes within their track by dragging and dropping them. You can also move take lanes using the CTRL(Win) / CMD(Mac) modifier with the up or down arrow key.
Take lanes can be renamed in the same way as tracks, using the Rename command in the Edit menu or a take lane header’s right-click(PC) / CTRL-click(Mac) context menu, or using the CTRL-R(PC)/ CMD-R(Mac) keyboard shortcut. Multiple selected take lanes can also be renamed simultaneously. Using the Tab and Shift-Tab keyboard shortcuts lets you quickly move between lanes and tracks while renaming them.
Recording Takes
While recording new clips in the Arrangement View (see 17.3.1), take lanes are automatically added to armed audio and MIDI tracks (see 17.2), and clips are created within those take lanes.
Recording over existing clips, either by recording individual passes or by recording in a loop (see 6.5), will add a new take lane for each pass. Existing take lanes will be automatically reused when no other clip exists after the punch-in point.
The last recorded clip in a track is always copied to that track’s main lane, so that it becomes immediately audible when playing back the Set.
Note that recorded clips inherit their track’s color by default. You can configure Live to automatically assign a different color to each take, by setting the Clip Color toggle to Random in the Look/Feel Preferences.
Hands On
Record at least three takes of an instrument e.g. three takes of piano, or three takes of guitar.
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