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 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE 407
Context Menu Parameters
Certain operations and parameters in Operator are only available via the (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu. These include:
Copy commands for Oscillators The (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu of the
oscillator's shell and envelope display provide options for copying parameters between
oscillators.
Envelope commands The (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu for all envelope displays
provide options to quickly set all envelope levels to maximum, minimum, or middle values.
Harmonics editor commands The (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu for the har monics
editor can restrict partial drawing to even or odd harmonics and toggle normalization of an
oscillator's output level. There is also a command to export the waveform as an .ams le.
Play By Key This command, in the (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu for the lter's
Freq control, optimizes the lter for key tracking by setting the cutoff to 466 Hz and setting
the Freq<Key to 100%.
23.9 Orchestral Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion
Orchestral Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion are high-quality orchestral sample
libraries created in collaboration with SONiVOX. These multi-gigabyte collections are care-
fully multisampled at a variety of velocities and with a number of articulations.
These products are not included with the standard version of Live, but are special features
available for purchase separately.
23.9.1 Installation
The orchestral libraries are installed separately from the main Live installation. To install,
drag the relevant Live Packs into the Live application window, either from your operating
system or from Live's Browser.