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 26. MIDI AND KEY REMOTE CONTROL 463
Relative Session View Navigation
Notice that you can make not only absolute mappings to individual slots and scenes, but
also relative mappings to move the highlighted scene and operate on the highlighted clips.
In both MIDI Map Mode and Key Map Mode, a strip of assignable controls appears below
the Session grid:
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The Relative Session
Mapping Strip.
1. Assign these buttons to keys, notes or controllers to move the highlighted scene
up and down.
2. Assign this scene number value box to a MIDI controller preferably an endless
encoder to scroll through the scenes. For details, see the previous section on
Relative Map Modes.
3. Assign this button to launch the highlighted scene. If the Record/Warp/Launch
Preferences' Select Next Scene on Launch option is checked, you can move
successively (and hopefully successfully!) through the scenes.
4. Assign these buttons to launch the clip at the highlighted scene, in the respective
track.
Relative Session mapping is useful for navigating a large Live Set, as Live always keeps the
highlighted scene at the Session View's center.
Mapping to Clip View Controls
The Clip View displays the settings for whichever clip happens to be currently selected, but
it will also display the settings of multi-selected clips. To avoid unpleasant musical surprises,
it is important to remember that creating remote control mappings for any control in the










