From the course: Ableton Live 11 Essential Training: The Basics

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Browser categories

Browser categories

- [Instructor] Like most programs, Live's browser provides a way to locate, audition, and load devices, presets, and clips into your Ableton projects. Let's start by looking at the categories area of the browser. So I've just got a default set open and the browser is located over here on the left side of both session and arrangement view. If you want to hide the browser, you can do that a couple of different ways. You can click the little triangle in the upper left-hand corner, or you can do this by key command, which on a Mac would be: option command B for browser, or control alt B, on a PC, and that toggles it open and closed. So, the browser is divided into two areas. On the left-hand side, this is called the sidebar, and then we have the content column here on the right. So let's go to the categories area. And let me start off by saying that the first three items: sounds, drums, and instruments, all offer a way…

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