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 529
for MIDI notes during recording . . . 206
Quantize menu command . . . . . . . . .130, 144
quick-chooser buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
R
Racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Auto Select option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Chain List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Macro Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230, 247
mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
routing tap points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
RAM Mode switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Random effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Re-Pitch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Record button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Record Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Record/Warp/Launch Preferences . . . . . . . . .7
recording
and remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
audio and MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
overdubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 203
punch-in/punch-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
resampling the Master output . . . . . 172
step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
with count-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
recording an Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
recording automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Redux effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Ableton
remote control . . see mapping to MIDI/keys
Rename command
in the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
with clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
with locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
with plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
with tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Repeat Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
resampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172, see recording
Rescan Plug-Ins preference . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Resonators effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
return tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 191
Reverb effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Diffusion Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Early Reîections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Input Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Reverse button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
ReWire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .480
Live as master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Live as slave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .see recording
tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Ableton
REX Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
ring modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 164
and computer keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
and external audio in/out . . . . . . . . . . 166
and external MIDI in/out . . . . . . . . . . 167
and instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
and layering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
and post-effects recording . . . . . . . . .176
and recording MIDI as audio . . . . . . 177
and ReWire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
and sidechain inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
between tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
for creating submixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178










