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 525
Full Screen Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
G
Gate effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Gate Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Global Quantization chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
and Session recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Grain Delay effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Grain Flux eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Grain Size eld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Grain Size knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
grid
and Arrangement editing . . . . . . . . . . . 85
and envelope drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
and MIDI editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
and time signature markers . . . . . . . . . 79
in editing clip envelopes . . . . . . . . . . 268
working with the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
groove feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 149
Groove Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
group slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Group Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see tracks
H
hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see CPU
Hard Disk Overload indicator . . . . . . . . . . 487
High Quality switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
hot-swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
and device presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
and grooves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
and Impulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
and Simpler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
I
I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see routing
importing les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
importing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Impulse instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
and individual outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
and MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
lter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
global controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Link button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
pan and volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
sample slots and controls . . . . . . . . . . 382
saturator and envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Start, Tune and Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Info View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
insert
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Insert Audio Track command . . . . . . . . . . . 189
insert marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Insert MIDI Clip command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Insert MIDI Track command . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Insert Return Track command . . . . . . . . . . 192
Insert Scene command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Insert Silence command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
in the MIDI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Insert Time Signature Change command 78
instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see devices
K
Key Map Mode switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Key/MIDI In Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Key/MIDI Out Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .508










