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
 
Live Version 8.0.2 for Windows and Mac OS
May, 2009
Created by Bernd Roggendorf, Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke, Awi, Reiner Rudolph, Stefan Haller, Stefan Franke,
Frank Hoffmann, Andreas Zapf, Ralf Suckow, Gregor Klinke, Matthias Mayrock, Friedemann Schautz, Ingo Koehne,
Jakob Rang, Pablo Sara, Nicholas Allen, Henrik Lafrenz, Jan Buchholz, Kevin Haywood, Dominik Wilms, Christian
Kleine, Amaury Groc, Daniel Büttner, Alex Koch, Henrik Hahn, Simon Frontzek, Torsten Wendland, Torsten Slama,
Eduard Müller, Jeremy Bernstein, Bernard Chavonnet, Carl Seleborg, Claes Johanson, Bernhard Bockelbrink, Nico
Starke, Jörg Kluÿmann, Stefan Brunner, Tobias Hahn, Stefan von der Mark, Carsten Henÿinger, Stephan Diehl,
David Talbot, Robert Feldbinder, Diez Roggisch, Justine Lera, Dennis DeSantis, Ian Gallagher, Philipp Gries, Marie
Hoffmann, Marian Kalus, Stephan Krohn, Michael Dühr, Dennis Fischer.
Reference Manual by Dennis DeSantis, Ian Gallagher, Kevin Haywood, Rose Knudsen, Gerhard Behles, Jakob Rang,
Robert Henke, Torsten Slama.
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