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 527
MIDI
exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
quantizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144, 206
sending bank/program changes . . . 117
MIDI clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see clips
MIDI controllers . . . . . . . .see control surfaces
MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 135
and drawing MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
and drawing velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
and grid lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141, 143
and recording MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
and step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
creating and editing notes . . . . . . . . .141
editing velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
loop/region settings for . . . . . . . . . . . 140
MIDI note stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
note-off velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
rearranging notes in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
MIDI effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see devices
MIDI Fact Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500
MIDI les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
and time signature changes . . . . . . . . .80
MIDI interface setup . . . . . . . . . . . .see routing
MIDI Map Mode switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
MIDI Ports list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
MIDI Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
MIDI synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
MIDI Timecode Frame Rate preference 479
MIDI Timecode Start Offset preference 479
MIDI Track In Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
MIDI Track Out Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
MIDI tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see tracks
Minimum Free Space preference . . . . . . . . 42
mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 185
Mixer Section selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . see clip envelopes
monitor mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
monitoring through Live . . . . . . . . . see Audio
Preferences
MP3 les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Multiband Dynamics effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
interface and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Multicore/Multiprocessor Support . . . . . . 483
Multiple Plug-In Windows preference . . 220
Multisampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
muting . . . . . . . . . . .see Track Activator switch
clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
N
Narrow Grid command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
New command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Next Locator button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
normalizing rendered audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Note Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Note Length effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345
Notes box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Nudge buttons . . . . see Clip Nudge buttons
O
ofine clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Ogg les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Open/Open Recent command . . . . . . . . . . 52
Operator instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
aliasing and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
AMS les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
and CPU resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397










