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
INDEX 521
testing and methodology . . . . . . . . . .489
tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
audio les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
audio interface setup . . . . . . . . . . . . see Audio
Preferences, see routing
Audio Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
audio tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see tracks
Audio Units Plug-ins, using . . . . .see devices
authorization . . . . . . . . . . see copy protection
authorizing Live
more than once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Auto Filter effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Auto Pan effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Auto Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Auto-Hide Plug-In Windows preference 220
Auto-Open Plug-In Windows preference 220
Auto-Warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Auto-Warp Long Samples preference . . 120
Automatic Rescan on Each Search . . . . . . . 35
automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 251
and grid lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
overriding/reactivating . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251
Automation Control chooser . . . . . . . . . . . 254
B
Back to Arrangement button . . . 16, 96, 252
Beat Repeat effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
beat-time ruler
and Arrangement editing . . . . . . . . . . . 74
and editing envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
and editing MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
in the MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Beats Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Bit Depth preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
breakpoint envelopes . see automation, see
clip envelopes
Browser . . . . . . . . . . see File Browser, see Live
Device Browser, see Plug-In Device
Browser
browsing les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
C
Capture and Insert Scene command . . . . .95
Check for Updates command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chord effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Chorus effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Clip Activator switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Clip box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Clip Color chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Clip Envelope Control chooser . . . . . . . . . 259
Clip Envelope Device chooser . . . . . . . . . 259
clip envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 258
and changing note pitch . . . . . . . . . . .261
and changing note volume . . . . . . . . 262
as LFOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
changing clips for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
creating long loops with . . . . . . . . . . . 268
for MIDI controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
general editing of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
imposing rhythm with . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
loop/region settings for . . . . . . . . . . . 266
mixer control modulation with . . . . . 264
scrambling beats with . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
unlinking from clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
using for fade-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Clip Fade switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113