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 408
After you have installed the libraries of your choice, you will need to authorize them. Further
details can be found at the Ableton website
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23.9.2 Using the Orchestral Presets
After installation, the orchestral instruments are accessed through Live's Device Browser, in
exactly the same way as Live's other built-in instruments. You will nd them as categorized
presets within the Instrument Rack folder. These instruments are therefore loaded just like
any other device, by dragging a preset from the Browser into an empty MIDI track.
The presets are available in Full and Lite versions, allowing you to choose the right balance
of delity and polyphony for your needs. The Lite versions reduce CPU, RAM and disk
requirements by reducing the number of zones and sample layers used. Both the Full and
Lite presets use 24-bit multisamples. Additionally, you can Hot-Swap between different
quality levels of the same preset and any Macro edits you have already made will be
preserved after the swap.
There are also LE Packs available for each library which contain very efcient versions of the
instruments suitable for sketching out ideas. The LE instruments are all composed of 16-bit
sample les.
All of the orchestral presets are conveniently mapped to Macro Controls for greater expres-
sion.
Each instrument is available in Solo and Section presets which contain all available articula-
tions. Additionally, each instrument's articulation is available as a separate preset.
In the multi-articulation presets, the various articulations are separated into individual chains
in the Rack. You can switch between them in real time via the Articulation Macro control.
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