For freehand drawing, you can hide the grid using the Snap to Grid Options menu entry or the CTRL – 4 (PC) / CMD – 4 (Mac) shortcut. Holding down the Shift modifier while dragging vertically allows you to adjust the automation value of a step at a finer resolution. How do you simplify automation in Ableton? you de-select any/all your track record buttons, go back to the start of where you want to start recording automation. When you wnat to record automation onto a track (i.e overdub automation). I used to get confused with that also, but acctually it’s simple.
