User Manual

CHAPTER 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 41
The Hot-Swap Browser.
While in Hot-Swap Mode, pressing the
Return
key loads that le into the Impulse slot
(presumably while Impulse is playing incoming MIDI notes); pressing , then
Return
loads
the next sample, and so on. Instead of using the keys, we can also click on the le's Hot-
Swap icon to load it. The link between the Browser and the instrument will be broken if a
different view is selected, or if the Hot-Swap button is pressed again. Hot-swapping can
also be cancelled with a press of the
Esc
key or by pressing the close button in the
Hot-Swap bar at the top of the Browser.
When Hot-Swap Mode is re-entered, the Hot-Swap Browser will try to reconstruct what you
saw when you loaded the current le into the Impulse slot. If, for instance, the current
le was found by searching for gretsch kick, the Hot-Swap Browser will come up with
that search string in the search eld. In our example, we were hot-swapping for an empty
Impulse slot, so Live came up with something appropriate: a search for Drum Kick in
Library/Samples/Waveforms.