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 530
with external synthesizers . . . . . . . . . .169
S
sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Ableton
Sample box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
sample collections .see Essential Instrument
Collection
Sample Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 106
Sample Editor preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sampler instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Filter/Global tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419
importing samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410
Key Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
MIDI tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Modulation tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Pitch/Osc Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Sample Select Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Sample tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Velocity Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Zone tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
collecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
destructive editing . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 111
nding unused . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
high-quality interpolation . . . . . . . . . . 112
ofine/missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
played from RAM Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 114
replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
reversing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
saving with clip settings . . . . . . . . . . . 112
time-warping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
working with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Saturator effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Save a Copy command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Save As command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Save command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Save Current Set as Default button . . . . . . 54
Save Default Clip button . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 112
Save Live Set to Web command . . . . 52, 449
Scale effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Scene Launch button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Scene Select eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Scene Up/Down buttons . . . . . . . . . . 207, 463
scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 91
and MIDI/key mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
scrubbing playback
in the Arrangement View . . . . . . . . . . . 75
in the Clip View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Search button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Search In Folder command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
searching in the File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
rescan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Select Loop command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
and clip envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
and exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Select Next Scene on Launch option . . . . 92
Select Next Scene on Launch preference 463
Select on Launch preference . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Send controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 192
Session Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Session View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
and Arrangement View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
clip grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
copying to Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
recording an Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . 96
recording audio in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Session View selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Set 1.1.1 Here command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Set Locator button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77










