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 531
Set Locator command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Set Song Start Time Here command . . . . .78
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .see Live Sets
sharing Live Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . see keyboard shortcuts
Show/Hide Plug-In Windows command 220
shufe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see groove feature
Simple Delay effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Simpler instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
and CPU resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
lter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Glide and Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .428
LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Multisample Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
sample controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Sample View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
site or secondary licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Skin preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
slicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245
Snap to Grid command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Solo in Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Solo switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Solo/Cue Mode switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
sound les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Spectrum device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Split button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Split command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Start Recording on Scene Launch . . . . . . 202
start/end markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Stop All Clips button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see groove feature
Sync Delay preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Sync In Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Sync Out Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
synthesizer MIDI setup . . . . . . . . . see routing
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Takeover Mode preference . . . . . . . . . . . . .458
Tap Tempo button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
with warping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
tempo
and scene names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 96
automating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
MIDI mapping ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
nudging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
tapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Tempo eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 118
Tempo Nudge buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Temporary Folder preference . . . . . . . . . . 207
Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
architecture and interface . . . . . . . . . .430
Body section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Damper section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Excitator section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431
Filter section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Global and Keyboard parameters . .442
Pickup section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
sound design tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
String section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Termination section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Vibrato section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435










