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 3
Live's interface can be magnied to maximize visibility via the Zoom Display slider.
A Preview Tab in the Browser provides a visual overview of the previewed le's contents,
and allows you to scrub in the waveform or MIDI display.
When multiple tracks are selected, adjusting one of their mixer or routing parameters
will adjust the same parameter in the other selected tracks.
1.2.4 Ableton Effects and Instruments
Operator has been dramatically overhauled with a variety of new lter types, an ex-
panded set of modulation routings and additive wavetable synthesis with drawable
partials.
Collision optional add-on instrument
Corpus optional add-on effect
Latin Percussion optional add-on sample library
Looper provides classic tape-loop style overdubbing, with drag-and-drop export to
clips, MIDI-mappable controls optimized for use with foot pedals and more.
Vocoder combines the best of classic analog vocoders with powerful new features.
Limiter provides a true brickwall limiter, ideal for mastering applications.
The Multiband Dynamics device allows for upward or downward compression or ex-
pansion of up to three separate frequency bands.
Overdrive is a powerful addition to Live's arsenal of distortion tools.
Frequency Shifter combines frequency shifting and ring modulation effects in a single
device.
1.2.5 New Library
Live's Library is now stocked with a large collection of new creative tools including
numerous device presets, loops and samples, construction kits and template Sets.