Reference Manual

113 Clip View
8.2.8 Clip RAM Mode
The RAM Mode Switch.
If the RAM Mode switch is on, Live is loading the audio referenced by the clip into the com-
puter’s memory rather than reading it from disk in real time. RAM Mode can help with these
problems:
•Your computer’s hard disk is too slow to deliver audio for as many tracks as desired in real
time. For more information on disk-related problems, please refer to Managing the Disk
Load (page 571).
•You are experiencing audio dropouts when playing clips in Legato Mode (page 164).
•Use RAM Mode with care, as RAM is usually a scarce resource. Your computer is using
the hard disk for swapping out RAM contents that have not been used in a while. The more
clips you are running in RAM Mode, the higher the likelihood for them to be swapped out.
Live can handle disk overloads more gracefully than swapped-out audio arriving late:
Disk overloads result in unwanted mutes, whereas RAM overload results in both mutes and
rhythmical “hiccups.“
8.2.9 Reversing Samples
The Reverse Button.
This function creates a new sample by reversing the sample referenced by the current clip. It then
reapplies the old clip’s settings (according to some rules that we will explain in a moment), and
replaces the original sample with the reversal in the Clip View. The new sample can be found,