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 429
The Voices parameter sets the maximum number of voices that Simpler can play simultane-
ously. If more voices are needed than have been allocated by the Voices chooser, voice
stealing will take place, in which the oldest voice(s) will be dropped in favor of those that
are new. For example, if your Voices parameter is set to 8, and ten voices are all vying to
be played, the two oldest voices will be dropped. (Simpler does try to make voice stealing
as subtle as possible.) A small LED near the Voices control ashes when a voice has been
stolen.
Panorama is dened by the Pan control, but can be further swayed by randomness or
modulated by the LFO.
Finally, the output volume of Simpler is controlled by the Volume control, which can also be
dependent upon note velocity, as adjusted by the Velocity control. Tremolo effects can be
achieved by allowing the LFO to modulate the Volume parameter.
23.12.9 Strategies for Saving CPU Power
Real-time synthesis needs lots of computing power. However, there are strategies for
reducing CPU load. Save the CPU spent on Simpler by doing some of the following:
Turn off the Filter if it is not needed.
Use lter types that are less expensive when possible. A lter's cost correlates with the
steepness of its slope LP24 is more expensive than LP12.
Turn off the LFO for a slightly positive inuence on CPU.
Stereo samples need signicantly more CPU than mono samples, as they require twice
the processing.
Decrease the number of simultaneously allowed voices with the Voice control.