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 27. USING THE APC40 469
APC's button matrix are shown in Live with a red border.
The directional arrows and Shift button increase the scope of the eight-by-ve grid:
Pressing Up or Down moves you up or down one scene at a time. Hold the Shift
button while hitting Up or Down to move ve scenes up or down.
The Left and Right arrow keys move you left or right one track at a time. Hold the Shift
button while hitting Left or Right to move eight tracks at a time.
27.3 Session Overview
The APC40's Session Overview lets you navigate through large Live Sets quickly without
looking at your computer screen. Hold down the Shift button and the matrix zooms out to
reveal an overview of your Session View. In the Session Overview, each clip launch button
represents a ve-scene-by-eight-track block of clips, giving you a matrix of 125 scenes by
64 tracks. Hit a button to focus on that section of the Session View. For example, hitting
the Shift button and then pressing the button in row three, column one will put the focus
on scenes 11-15 and tracks 1-8. Furthermore, while Shift is held, each scene launch button
represents a block of 25 scenes (if they are available in your Set.)
In the Session Overview, the color coding is a little different:
Amber: indicates the currently selected block of clips, which will be surrounded by the
red border in the software.
Green: there are clips playing in that block of clips (though that may not be the block
of clips selected).
Red: there are no clips playing in that range.
No color: there are no tracks or scenes in that range.










