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 530
with external synthesizers . . . . . . . . . .169
S
sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Ableton
Sample box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
sample collections .see Essential Instrument
Collection
Sample Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 106
Sample Editor preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sampler instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Filter/Global tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419
importing samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410
Key Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
MIDI tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Modulation tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Pitch/Osc Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Sample Select Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Sample tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Velocity Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Zone tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
collecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
destructive editing . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 111
nding unused . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
high-quality interpolation . . . . . . . . . . 112
ofine/missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
played from RAM Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 114
replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
reversing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
saving with clip settings . . . . . . . . . . . 112
time-warping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
working with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Saturator effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Save a Copy command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Save As command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Save command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Save Current Set as Default button . . . . . . 54
Save Default Clip button . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 112
Save Live Set to Web command . . . . 52, 449
Scale effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Scene Launch button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Scene Select eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Scene Up/Down buttons . . . . . . . . . . 207, 463
scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 91
and MIDI/key mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
scrubbing playback
in the Arrangement View . . . . . . . . . . . 75
in the Clip View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Search button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Search In Folder command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
searching in the File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
rescan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Select Loop command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
and clip envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
and exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Select Next Scene on Launch option . . . . 92
Select Next Scene on Launch preference 463
Select on Launch preference . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Send controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 192
Session Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Session View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
and Arrangement View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
clip grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
copying to Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
recording an Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . 96
recording audio in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Session View selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Set 1.1.1 Here command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Set Locator button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77










