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 528
envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
lter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Glide and Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
global controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
MIDI modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
parameter list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
user waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Orchestral Brass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Orchestral Percussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Orchestral Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Orchestral Woodwinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Original BPM eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116, 124
Overdrive effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Overdub Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201, 203
Overdubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
P
packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Live Packs
Pan control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Pan quick-chooser button see quick-chooser
buttons
Parent Folder item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Paste Time command
in the Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
in the MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Draw Mode
Phaser effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Ping Pong Delay effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Pitch Bend quick-chooser button . . . . . . . see
quick-chooser buttons
Pitch effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346
Play button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
plug-ins, using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see devices
Plug-In Buffer Size preference . . . . . . . . . . 223
Plug-In Congure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Plug-In Device Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Plug-In Device Browserselector . . . . . . . . 218
Plug-In Edit button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
Plug-In Unfold button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
pre-listening samples . . . . . . . see previewing
Pre/Post switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
and recording clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Preserve chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
converting Sampler to Simpler . . . . .409
converting Simpler to Sampler . . . . .425
Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
for specic Live Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
saving with samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Preview switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 137
Preview Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Preview Volume knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
previewing
in the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
in the MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Previous Locator button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see CPU
projects/project management . . . . . see Live
Projects
Punch-In/Out switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Q
quantization
command for audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
command for selected MIDI notes . 144
for clip launching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157