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Table Of Contents

Welcome to Live
- The Ableton Team Says: Thank You
- What's New in Live 8?
First Steps
- Learn About Live
  - Using the Info View and Index
- Setting up Preferences
- The Main Live Screen
Authorizing Live
- Copy Protection FAQs
Live Concepts
- Live Sets
- Arrangement and Session
- Tracks
- Audio and MIDI
- Audio Clips and Samples
- MIDI Clips and MIDI Files
- Devices and the Mixer
- Presets and Racks
- Routing
- Recording New Clips
- Automation Envelopes
- Clip Envelopes
- MIDI and Key Remote
- Saving and Exporting
- The Library
Managing Files and Sets
- Working with the File Browsers
- Sample Files
- MIDI Files
  - Exporting MIDI Files
- Live Clips
- Live Sets
- Live Projects
- The Live Library
  - Changing the Library Location, Upgrading an Old Library
  - Importing Projects into the Library
- Locating Missing Samples
  - Manual Repair
  - Automatic Repair
- Collecting External Samples
  - Collect Samples on Export
- Aggregated Locating and Collecting
- Finding Unused Samples
- Packing Projects into Live Packs
- File Management FAQs
Arrangement View
- Navigation
- Transport
- Launching the Arrangement with Locators
- Time Signature Changes
- The Arrangement Loop
- Moving and Resizing Clips
- Audio Clip Fades and Crossfades
- Selecting Clips and Time
- Using the Editing Grid
- Using the ...Time Commands
- Splitting Clips
- Consolidating Clips
Session View
- Session View Clips
- Tracks and Scenes
- The Track Status Fields
- Setting Up the Session View Grid
- Recording Sessions into the Arrangement
Clip View
- The Clip Box
- The Sample Box
- The Notes Box
- Clip Defaults and Update Rate
Tempo Control and Warping
- Tempo
- Time-Warping Samples
- Adjusting for Good Stretching Quality
Editing MIDI Notes and Velocities
- Creating an Empty MIDI Clip
- The MIDI Editor
- MIDI Editor Navigation and Transport
- Editing MIDI
Using Grooves
- Groove Pool
  - Adjusting Groove Parameters
  - Committing Grooves
- Editing Grooves
  - Extracting Grooves
- Groove Tips
Launching Clips
- The Launch Box
- Launch Modes
- Clip-Level Quantization
- Velocity
- Legato Mode
- Follow Actions
Routing and I/O
- Monitoring
- External Audio In/Out
  - Mono/Stereo Conversions
- External MIDI In/Out
- ReWire Slave Routing
- Resampling
- Internal Routings
  - Internal Routing Points
  - Making Use of Internal Routing
Mixing
- The Live Mixer
  - Session Mixer Features
- Audio and MIDI Tracks
- Group Tracks
- Return Tracks and the Master Track
- Using Live's Crossfader
- Soloing and Cueing
- Track Delays
Recording New Clips
- Choosing an Input
- Arming (Record-Enabling) Tracks
- Recording
- Recording in Sync
- Recording Quantized MIDI Notes
- Recording with Count-in
- Setting up File Types
- Where are the Recorded Samples?
- Using Remote Control for Recording
Working with Instruments and Effects
- Using the Live Devices
  - Live Device Presets
- Using Plug-Ins
  - Plug-Ins in the Track View
  - Plug-In Performance Options
- VST Plug-Ins
  - The VST Plug-In Folder
  - VST Programs and Banks
- Audio Units Plug-Ins
- Device Delay Compensation
Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
- An Overview of Racks
  - Signal Flow and Parallel Device Chains
  - Macro Controls
- Creating Racks
- Looking at Racks
- Chain List
  - Auto Select
- Zones
- Drum Racks
  - Pad View
  - Slicing
- Using the Macro Controls
- Mixing With Racks
  - Extracting Chains
Automation and Editing Envelopes
- Recording Automation
- Deleting Automation
- Overriding Automation
- Drawing and Editing Automation
Clip Envelopes
- The Clip Envelope Editor
- Audio Clip Envelopes
- Mixer and Device Clip Envelopes
- MIDI Controller Clip Envelopes
- Unlinking Clip Envelopes From Clips
Working with Video
- Importing Video
- The Appearance of Video in Live
- Matching Sound to Video
- Video Trimming Tricks
Live Audio Effect Reference
- Auto Filter
- Auto Pan
- Beat Repeat
- Chorus
- Compressor
  - Sidechain Parameters
  - Compression Tips
- Corpus
- Dynamic Tube
- EQ Eight
- EQ Three
- Erosion
- External Audio Effect
- Filter Delay
- Flanger
- Frequency Shifter
  - Frequency Shifter Tips
- Gate
- Grain Delay
- Limiter
- Looper
  - Feedback Routing
- Multiband Dynamics
  - Dynamics Processing Theory
  - Interface and Controls
  - Multiband Dynamics Tips
- Overdrive
- Phaser
- Ping Pong Delay
- Redux
- Resonators
- Reverb
  - Input Processing
  - Early Reflections
  - Global Settings
  - Diffusion Network
  - Output
- Saturator
- Simple Delay
- Spectrum
- Utility
- Vinyl Distortion
- Vocoder
  - Vocoder Tips
Live MIDI Effect Reference
- Arpeggiator
  - Style and Rate Sections
  - Transposition and Velocity Sections
- Chord
- Note Length
- Pitch
- Random
- Scale
- Velocity
Live Instrument Reference
- Analog
- Collision
- Drum Machines
  - Drum Machines Installation
  - Accessing the Drum Machines
- Electric
- External Instrument
- Impulse
- Latin Percussion
- Operator
- Orchestral Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion
  - Installation
  - Using the Orchestral Presets
- Sampler
- Session Drums
- Simpler
- Tension
- The Essential Instrument Collection
Max For Live
Sharing Live Sets
- Uploading Sets
  - Non-Portable Tracks
- Downloading Sets
- The Upload/Download Browser
MIDI and Key Remote Control
- MIDI Remote Control
- The Mapping Browser
Using the APC40
- Setup
- Clip Launch Matrix
- Session Overview
- Mixer Section
- Device Control
- Transport and Global Buttons
- Track Control
- Tempo Control
- Crossfader
- Customizing the APC40 Controls
Synchronization and ReWire
- Synchronizing via MIDI
- Connecting via ReWire
Computer Audio Resources and Strategies
- Managing the CPU Load
- Managing the Disk Load
Audio Fact Sheet
- Testing and Methodology
- Neutral Operations
- Non-Neutral Operations
- Tips for Achieving Optimal Sound Quality in Live
- Summary and Conclusions
MIDI Fact Sheet
- Ideal MIDI Behavior
- MIDI Timing Problems
- Live's MIDI Solutions
- Variables Outside of Live's Control
- Tests and Results
- Tips for Achieving Optimal MIDI Performance
- Summary and Conclusions
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

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