Reference Manual

CHAPTER 8. CLIP VIEW 111
8.3 The Notes Box
The Notes Box.
8.3.1 Tempo Controls
The Orig. BPM eld displays Live's interpretation of the tempo at which the clip's MIDI
was recorded. When dragging up or down in the Original BPM eld, or clicking the :2 and
*2 buttons, you will see that the notes in the MIDI Editor are correspondingly stretched
or compressed. This is useful for aligning notes that you have recorded without a tempo
reference, like Live's metronome.
8.3.2 Bank and Program Change
Live can send MIDI bank/program change messages to external devices and plug-ins that
support MIDI program change messages. According to the settings in these controls,
launching a clip also sends its bank/program change message. If you are using Live to send
MIDI to your synth, this means that each MIDI clip in your Live Set can play a different sound
on your synth. Live offers messages for 128 banks with 128 sub-banks, each of which has
128 programs. Please see the documentation that came with your synthesizer to determine
how many of these messages it can use. If you do not want your clip to send program or
bank change messages, simply set the bank/program choosers to None.
Please note that Live LE cannot send MIDI information to external synthesizers.