User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to Live
- First Steps
- Authorizing Live
- Live Concepts
- Managing Files and Sets
- Working with the File Browsers
- Sample Files
- MIDI Files
- Live Clips
- Live Sets
- Live Projects
- The Live Library
- Locating Missing Samples
- Collecting External Samples
- Aggregated Locating and Collecting
- Finding Unused Samples
- Packing Projects into Live Packs
- File Management FAQs
- How Do I Create a Project?
- How Can I Save Presets Into My Current Project?
- Can I Work On Multiple Versions of a Set?
- Where Should I Save My Live Sets?
- Where Should I Save My Live Clips?
- Can I Use My Own Folder Structure Within a Project Folder?
- How Do I Export A Project to the Library and Maintain My Own Folder Structure?
- Arrangement View
- Session View
- Clip View
- Tempo Control and Warping
- Editing MIDI Notes and Velocities
- Using Grooves
- Launching Clips
- Routing and I/O
- Mixing
- Recording New Clips
- Working with Instruments and Effects
- Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
- Automation and Editing Envelopes
- Clip Envelopes
- Working with Video
- Live Audio Effect Reference
- Auto Filter
- Auto Pan
- Beat Repeat
- Chorus
- Compressor
- Corpus
- Dynamic Tube
- EQ Eight
- EQ Three
- Erosion
- External Audio Effect
- Filter Delay
- Flanger
- Frequency Shifter
- Gate
- Grain Delay
- Limiter
- Looper
- Multiband Dynamics
- Overdrive
- Phaser
- Ping Pong Delay
- Redux
- Resonators
- Reverb
- Saturator
- Simple Delay
- Spectrum
- Utility
- Vinyl Distortion
- Vocoder
- Live MIDI Effect Reference
- Live Instrument Reference
- Max For Live
- Sharing Live Sets
- MIDI and Key Remote Control
- Using the APC40
- Synchronization and ReWire
- Computer Audio Resources and Strategies
- Audio Fact Sheet
- MIDI Fact Sheet
- Live Keyboard Shortcuts
- Showing and Hiding Views
- Accessing Menus
- Adjusting Values
- Browsing
- Transport
- Editing
- Loop Brace and Start/End Markers
- Session View Commands
- Arrangement View Commands
- Commands for Tracks
- Commands for Breakpoint Envelopes
- Key/MIDI Map Mode and the Computer MIDI Keyboard
- Zooming, Display and Selections
- Clip View Sample Display
- Clip View MIDI Editor
- Grid Snapping and Drawing
- Global Quantization
- Working with Sets and the Program
- Working with Plug-Ins and Devices
- Using the Context Menu
- Index
CHAPTER 14. MIXING 189
14.2 Audio and MIDI Tracks
Audio and MIDI tracks in Live are for hosting and playing clips, as explained earlier.
You can add new audio and MIDI tracks to your Live Set's mixer at any time using the
appropriate Create menu commands.
Tracks can also be created by double-clicking or pressing
Return
on les in the Browser to
load them, or by dragging objects from the Browser into the space to the right of Session
View tracks or below Arrangement View tracks. Devices or les loaded into Live in this
manner will create tracks of the appropriate type (e.g., a MIDI track will be created if a MIDI
le or effect is dragged in).
A track is represented by its track title bar. You can click on a track title bar to select
the track and then execute an Edit menu command on the track. One such command is
Rename. One can quickly rename a series of tracks by executing this command (or the
Rename shortcut
Ctrl
R
(PC) /
R
(Mac)) and then using the Tab key to move from
title bar to title bar. When a # symbol precedes a name, the track will get a number that
updates automatically when the track is moved. Adding additional # symbols will prepend
the track number with additional zeros. You can also enter your own info text for a track via
the Edit Info Text command in the Edit menu or in the tracks's (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac)
context menu.
Tracks are Represented
by Track Title Bars.
You can drag tracks by their title bars to rearrange them, or click and drag on their edges to
change their width (in the Session View) or height (in the Arrangement View).
Multiple adjacent or nonadjacent tracks can be selected at once by -clicking or
Ctrl
-clicking, respectively. If you drag a selection of nonadjacent tracks, they will be
collapsed together when dropped. To move nonadjacent tracks without collapsing, use
Ctrl
+ arrow keys instead of the mouse.
When multiple tracks are selected, adjusting one of their mixer controls will adjust the same
control for the other tracks. If the tracks in the multi-selection have differing values for any