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 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE 411
which are mounted automatically upon inserting and can be browsed as usual with Live's
File Browser. Here are the steps:
1. Insert the AKAI-formatted sample CD.
2. On a Mac, click on the title bar of Live's File Browser and select All Volumes. On
a PC, navigate Live's File Browser to the Workspace by clicking on the Browser's
title bar and selecting Workspace.
3. Click on the Browser item found at the bottom named Find Sample CDs...
4. Double-click the item that appears to import the CD's contents.
23.10.2 Sampler's Tabs
Once you begin working with Sampler, you will notice that its features are organized categor-
ically into tabs, accessed from Sampler's title bar. In addition to serving as an organizational
aid, each tab has LEDs that indicate if there is modulation information in the corresponding
area. We will get to know Sampler by examining each of these tabs.
Sampler's Tabs in the
Title Bar.










