MAKID Session Workspace

MAKID Session Workspace lets you inspect and preview an .als without opening Ableton Live. MAKID reads the set when you open the workspace, press Play, or choose Refresh.

Open the workspace

Use any of these entry points:

• Click the Session button in the project table
• Open Arrangement from a project’s right-click menu
• Open Arrangement beside a set in Project Details → Sessions

Use the set selector in the workspace header to move between versions.

Arrangement

Arrangement is the default view. It shows tracks, clips, Ableton locators, and comments for the selected set revision.

• Scroll vertically through tracks and horizontally through time
• Pinch on a trackpad or use the Zoom control to change timeline scale
• Use Focus clips to jump to the part of the set containing activity
• Click a track or clip to inspect timing, devices, warp markers, and media
• Click an external media reference’s folder button to reveal it in Finder or File Explorer

Session

Session shows scenes and Session View clips. Empty cells mean the set has no clip in that track and scene. If the set has no Session View clips, MAKID shows an explicit empty state and a shortcut back to Arrangement.

Approximate playback

Press Play to hear a MAKID Session Preview built from available audio clips and MIDI notes. MIDI tracks use MAKID’s built-in preview synth. MAKID does not reproduce Ableton devices, plug-ins, automation, routing, or the original MIDI instruments, so the result is intentionally approximate.

The player shows an activity overview in place of a rendered waveform. Click it to seek. A warning reports audible coverage when some tracks cannot be played.

The first play uses live source audio. MAKID then creates an internal MAKID Session Preview for faster later plays. Generated previews:

• Stay inside MAKID’s local application data
• Never appear as project files or bounces
• Are invalidated when their source audio changes
• Use a 10 GB least-recently-used cache by default, with 25 GB and 50 GB options in Settings
• Can be removed from Settings → MAKID Session Preview cache

Comments and locators

Ableton locators are imported per set revision. They are visible, seekable, and read-only.

MAKID comments keep their existing cloud sync and editing behavior. A comment created in the workspace targets the exact parsed .als revision, so comments from another version do not appear on the current timeline.

Refresh and stale data

Choose Refresh after changing a set on disk. If a new parse fails, MAKID keeps the last usable revision visible and marks it as stale.