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
CHAPTER 1. WELCOME TO LIVE 2
1.2 What's New in Live 8?
1.2.1 New Warping Engine
Live's warping engine has been dramatically overhauled, with more accurate transient
detection and a redesigned interface that allows you to drag the wavefor m along a
xed timeline.
New transient loop and envelope controls in Beats Mode allow for higher quality
warping, especially at slower tempos.
New Complex Pro Mode for even higher quality warping.
You can now quantize audio clips using the Edit menu's Quantize command.
1.2.2 New Groove Functionality
Groove patterns can now modify the timing and volume of audio and MIDI clips in
real-time. A large library of grooves is provided, and grooves can be extracted from
clips and then reapplied to other clips.
1.2.3 Workow Enhancements
Crossfades are now available for adjacent clips in Arrangement View.
The MIDI Editor has been reworked, and editing MIDI is now similar to editing in
the Arrangement. An insert mark sets the precise location for clipboard operations,
allowing notes or time to be copied, pasted, inserted and deleted anywhere in the
clip. Enhanced keyboard commands also improve the editing workow.
As a result of the new navigation possibilities in the MIDI Editor, it is now possible to
step record MIDI notes.
Audio and MIDI tracks can be grouped into a summing Group Track. Group Tracks can
be folded or unfolded to help organize your workow in both Session and Arrangement
View.