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CHAPTER 19. CLIP ENVELOPES 260
1. Enclose the desired selection in the loop brace, and click the brace so that it is
selected. This will execute the Edit menu's Select Loop command, which selects
all material in the loop.
2. Copy the envelope with
Ctrl
C
(PC) /
C
(Mac).
3. Shift the loop brace to the right by one loop length with .
4. Paste the envelope with
Ctrl
V
(PC) /
V
(Mac).
Note that you can use the arrow keys to quickly manipulate the loop brace and start/end
markers in other useful ways to expedite clip envelope editing tasks.
To delete a clip envelope (i.e., to set it back to its default value), rst go to Edit/Select All,
then to Edit/Delete.
Let us now look at some uses of clip envelopes.
19.2 Audio Clip Envelopes
Clip envelopes extend Live's elastic approach to audio and, in conjunction with Live's
audio effects, turn Live into a mighty sound-design tool. Using clip envelopes with audio
clips, you can create an abundance of interesting variations from the same clip in real time
 anything from subtle corrections to entirely new and unrelated sounds.
19.2.1 Clip Envelopes are Non-Destructive
Using clip envelopes, you can create new sounds from a sample without actually affecting
the sample on disk. Because Live calculates the envelope modulations in real time, you can
have hundreds of clips in a Live Set that all sound different, but use the same sample.
You can, of course, export a newly created sound by
rendering, or by resampling. In the
Arrangement View, you can use the Consolidate command to create new samples.