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 524
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Edit menu commands
and automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 256
and exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
and MIDI notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
and return tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
and scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
and tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
in the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
with Clip Stop buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
with clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
with devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
with scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Edit switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see devices
EIC . . . . . see Essential Instrument Collection
Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
architecture and interface . . . . . . . . . .376
damper section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
fork section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
global section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
mallet section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
pickup section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Envelope Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100, 258
envelopes . . . . . . . . .see automation, see clip
envelopes
Envelopes box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 258
EQ Eight effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
EQ Three effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Erosion effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Essential Instrument Collection . . . . . . . . .444
Exclusive Arm/Solo preference . . . . . . . . . 187
Export Audio/Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Export MIDI Clip command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
exporting audio . . . see Export Audio/Video
exporting video . . . see Export Audio/Video
External Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
and real-time freezing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
and real-time rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
External Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
and multi-timbral plug-ins . . . . . . . . . 181
and real-time freezing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
and real-time rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
and ReWire devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
external sync . . . . . see MIDI synchronization
F
Fades/Device chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82, 253
FAQs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Ableton
File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
opening Sets with the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
le management . . . . . . . . . see Manage Files
command
File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
File Type preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
File/Folder Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
and VST Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Filter Delay effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Fixed Grid command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Fixed Grid options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
FLAC les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Flanger effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Fold button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Follow Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Follow command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75, 106
Follow switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 106, 122, 139
fragmentary bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Freeze Track command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Frequency Shifter effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304