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 444
To get a sense of what's possible, it may help to study how the presets were made. You'll
soon realize that Tension can do far more than just strings.
23.14 The Essential Instrument Collection
The boxed version of Live 8 ships with the Essential Instrument Collection, a multi-giga-
byte library of meticulously sampled instruments created in cooperation with SONiVOX,
Chocolate Audio and Puremagnetik.
Note ๎ The Essential Instrument Collection is not included with downloadable purchases.
Download customers can choose, however, to have the Live 8 box including the Essential
Instrument Collection shipped to them later for an additional fee
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23.14.1 EIC Installation
The Essential Instrument Collection is installed separately from the main Live installation.
The various instruments on the EIC DVD are grouped into separate Live Packs that can be
installed as needed. To install Live Packs, drag them into the Live application window, either
from your operating system or from Live's Browser.
After you have installed the EIC Live Packs, you will need to authorize them. Further details
can be found at the Ableton website
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23.14.2 Accessing The EIC Instruments
After installation, the EIC 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. EIC instruments are therefore loaded just like any other
device, by dragging a preset from the Browser into an empty MIDI track.
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http://www.ableton.com/authorize