Ableton: Shift + Arrow to change volume by 0.1 decibels

Working with Ableton Live, one of the things you’ll constantly do to balance your mix is adjusting a track’s volume:

Arrangement View in Ableton, as shown on the Ableton Live Lite website.

You can do this using the mouse, or with your keyboard’s arrow keys. By default, this will change the volume by 1 decibels a time.

There is an easy trick to adjust the volume more finely: Just press the Shift key while changing the volume and instead of making big jumps of 1 decibels, you’ll now move at 0.1 decibel speed for ultimate precision.

This article was written by Fabian

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