Ableton's Learn Live series shows a workflow for building modulation curves once and reusing them across different parameters, right inside Session View. Right-clicking a parameter and choosing Show Modulation opens a curve editor where you can drop in a predefined shape, scale it, and duplicate it across a clip, in this case shaping the Filter Frequency of a chord sound over four bars.
The same envelope then gets copied and pasted onto the Arpeggiator's Timbre parameter, proving that one modulation shape can drive completely different sonic results depending on what it's mapped to. Scaling the curve, trimming unnecessary breakpoints, and nudging in a bit of extra variation turns a generic shape into something that fits the new target and keeps the pattern from feeling repetitive.
This copy-and-adapt approach is a fast way to layer movement into a track without redrawing curves from scratch every time. Stacking modulation on multiple parameters, filter cutoff here, arp timbre there, builds sounds that evolve continuously rather than sitting static within a loop.