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 522
Clip Gain slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Clip Groove chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Clip Launch button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Clip Name eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Clip Nudge buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Clip Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
for zooming/scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Clip Quantization chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Clip Record button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 202
Clip Signature elds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Clip Stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
adding/removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Clip Update Rate preference . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Clip View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
and playing the Arrangement . . . . . . . 76
and remote control mapping . . . . . . 463
scrub area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Clip View boxes selector 101, 136, 155, 258
clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
adding fades to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82, 113
arranging/editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
as templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
clip multi-selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
crossfading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
deactivating/muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
editing MIDI notes/velocities . . . . . . 135
importing from les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
in Arrangement View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
in audio/MIDI tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
in Session View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Live Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
MIDI clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
reversing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
saving samples on export . . . . . . . . . . . 68
saving settings for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
setting properties of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Close All Folders command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Collect Samples on Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
architecture and interface . . . . . . . . . .363
Global section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
LFOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Mallet section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
MIDI tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Noise section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
Resonators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
sound design tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
color scheme . . . . . . . . . . see Skin preference
Complete Fragmentary Bar command . . . 79
Complex Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Complex Pro Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
compressed audio les . . . . . . . . see samples
Compressor effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
and sidechain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Computer MIDI Keyboard button . . . . . . 168
Computer MIDI Keyboard option . . . . . . 168
Consolidate command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
context menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Control chooser . . . see Automation Control
chooser, see Clip Envelope Control
chooser
control surfaces
and takeover mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .458
instant mappings for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
locking to devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
manual setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457
natively supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
copy protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Corpus effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289










