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
 
INDEX 527
MIDI
exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
quantizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144, 206
sending bank/program changes . . . 117
MIDI clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see clips
MIDI controllers . . . . . . . .see control surfaces
MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 135
and drawing MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
and drawing velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
and grid lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141, 143
and recording MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
and step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
creating and editing notes . . . . . . . . .141
editing velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
loop/region settings for . . . . . . . . . . . 140
MIDI note stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
note-off velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
rearranging notes in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
MIDI effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see devices
MIDI Fact Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500
MIDI les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
and time signature changes . . . . . . . . .80
MIDI interface setup . . . . . . . . . . . .see routing
MIDI Map Mode switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
MIDI Ports list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
MIDI Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
MIDI synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
MIDI Timecode Frame Rate preference 479
MIDI Timecode Start Offset preference 479
MIDI Track In Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
MIDI Track Out Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
MIDI tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see tracks
Minimum Free Space preference . . . . . . . . 42
mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 185
Mixer Section selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . see clip envelopes
monitor mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
monitoring through Live . . . . . . . . . see Audio
Preferences
MP3 les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Multiband Dynamics effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
interface and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Multicore/Multiprocessor Support . . . . . . 483
Multiple Plug-In Windows preference . . 220
Multisampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
muting . . . . . . . . . . .see Track Activator switch
clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
N
Narrow Grid command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
New command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Next Locator button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
normalizing rendered audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Note Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Note Length effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345
Notes box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Nudge buttons . . . . see Clip Nudge buttons
O
ofine clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Ogg les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see samples
Open/Open Recent command . . . . . . . . . . 52
Operator instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
aliasing and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
AMS les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
and CPU resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397










