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Table Of Contents

Welcome to Live
- The Ableton Team Says: Thank You
- What's New in Live 8?
First Steps
- Learn About Live
  - Using the Info View and Index
- Setting up Preferences
- The Main Live Screen
Authorizing Live
- Copy Protection FAQs
Live Concepts
- Live Sets
- Arrangement and Session
- Tracks
- Audio and MIDI
- Audio Clips and Samples
- MIDI Clips and MIDI Files
- Devices and the Mixer
- Presets and Racks
- Routing
- Recording New Clips
- Automation Envelopes
- Clip Envelopes
- MIDI and Key Remote
- Saving and Exporting
- The Library
Managing Files and Sets
- Working with the File Browsers
- Sample Files
- MIDI Files
  - Exporting MIDI Files
- Live Clips
- Live Sets
- Live Projects
- The Live Library
  - Changing the Library Location, Upgrading an Old Library
  - Importing Projects into the Library
- Locating Missing Samples
  - Manual Repair
  - Automatic Repair
- Collecting External Samples
  - Collect Samples on Export
- Aggregated Locating and Collecting
- Finding Unused Samples
- Packing Projects into Live Packs
- File Management FAQs
Arrangement View
- Navigation
- Transport
- Launching the Arrangement with Locators
- Time Signature Changes
- The Arrangement Loop
- Moving and Resizing Clips
- Audio Clip Fades and Crossfades
- Selecting Clips and Time
- Using the Editing Grid
- Using the ...Time Commands
- Splitting Clips
- Consolidating Clips
Session View
- Session View Clips
- Tracks and Scenes
- The Track Status Fields
- Setting Up the Session View Grid
- Recording Sessions into the Arrangement
Clip View
- The Clip Box
- The Sample Box
- The Notes Box
- Clip Defaults and Update Rate
Tempo Control and Warping
- Tempo
- Time-Warping Samples
- Adjusting for Good Stretching Quality
Editing MIDI Notes and Velocities
- Creating an Empty MIDI Clip
- The MIDI Editor
- MIDI Editor Navigation and Transport
- Editing MIDI
Using Grooves
- Groove Pool
  - Adjusting Groove Parameters
  - Committing Grooves
- Editing Grooves
  - Extracting Grooves
- Groove Tips
Launching Clips
- The Launch Box
- Launch Modes
- Clip-Level Quantization
- Velocity
- Legato Mode
- Follow Actions
Routing and I/O
- Monitoring
- External Audio In/Out
  - Mono/Stereo Conversions
- External MIDI In/Out
- ReWire Slave Routing
- Resampling
- Internal Routings
  - Internal Routing Points
  - Making Use of Internal Routing
Mixing
- The Live Mixer
  - Session Mixer Features
- Audio and MIDI Tracks
- Group Tracks
- Return Tracks and the Master Track
- Using Live's Crossfader
- Soloing and Cueing
- Track Delays
Recording New Clips
- Choosing an Input
- Arming (Record-Enabling) Tracks
- Recording
- Recording in Sync
- Recording Quantized MIDI Notes
- Recording with Count-in
- Setting up File Types
- Where are the Recorded Samples?
- Using Remote Control for Recording
Working with Instruments and Effects
- Using the Live Devices
  - Live Device Presets
- Using Plug-Ins
  - Plug-Ins in the Track View
  - Plug-In Performance Options
- VST Plug-Ins
  - The VST Plug-In Folder
  - VST Programs and Banks
- Audio Units Plug-Ins
- Device Delay Compensation
Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
- An Overview of Racks
  - Signal Flow and Parallel Device Chains
  - Macro Controls
- Creating Racks
- Looking at Racks
- Chain List
  - Auto Select
- Zones
- Drum Racks
  - Pad View
  - Slicing
- Using the Macro Controls
- Mixing With Racks
  - Extracting Chains
Automation and Editing Envelopes
- Recording Automation
- Deleting Automation
- Overriding Automation
- Drawing and Editing Automation
Clip Envelopes
- The Clip Envelope Editor
- Audio Clip Envelopes
- Mixer and Device Clip Envelopes
- MIDI Controller Clip Envelopes
- Unlinking Clip Envelopes From Clips
Working with Video
- Importing Video
- The Appearance of Video in Live
- Matching Sound to Video
- Video Trimming Tricks
Live Audio Effect Reference
- Auto Filter
- Auto Pan
- Beat Repeat
- Chorus
- Compressor
  - Sidechain Parameters
  - Compression Tips
- Corpus
- Dynamic Tube
- EQ Eight
- EQ Three
- Erosion
- External Audio Effect
- Filter Delay
- Flanger
- Frequency Shifter
  - Frequency Shifter Tips
- Gate
- Grain Delay
- Limiter
- Looper
  - Feedback Routing
- Multiband Dynamics
  - Dynamics Processing Theory
  - Interface and Controls
  - Multiband Dynamics Tips
- Overdrive
- Phaser
- Ping Pong Delay
- Redux
- Resonators
- Reverb
  - Input Processing
  - Early Reflections
  - Global Settings
  - Diffusion Network
  - Output
- Saturator
- Simple Delay
- Spectrum
- Utility
- Vinyl Distortion
- Vocoder
  - Vocoder Tips
Live MIDI Effect Reference
- Arpeggiator
  - Style and Rate Sections
  - Transposition and Velocity Sections
- Chord
- Note Length
- Pitch
- Random
- Scale
- Velocity
Live Instrument Reference
- Analog
- Collision
- Drum Machines
  - Drum Machines Installation
  - Accessing the Drum Machines
- Electric
- External Instrument
- Impulse
- Latin Percussion
- Operator
- Orchestral Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion
  - Installation
  - Using the Orchestral Presets
- Sampler
- Session Drums
- Simpler
- Tension
- The Essential Instrument Collection
Max For Live
Sharing Live Sets
- Uploading Sets
  - Non-Portable Tracks
- Downloading Sets
- The Upload/Download Browser
MIDI and Key Remote Control
- MIDI Remote Control
- The Mapping Browser
Using the APC40
- Setup
- Clip Launch Matrix
- Session Overview
- Mixer Section
- Device Control
- Transport and Global Buttons
- Track Control
- Tempo Control
- Crossfader
- Customizing the APC40 Controls
Synchronization and ReWire
- Synchronizing via MIDI
- Connecting via ReWire
Computer Audio Resources and Strategies
- Managing the CPU Load
- Managing the Disk Load
Audio Fact Sheet
- Testing and Methodology
- Neutral Operations
- Non-Neutral Operations
- Tips for Achieving Optimal Sound Quality in Live
- Summary and Conclusions
MIDI Fact Sheet
- Ideal MIDI Behavior
- MIDI Timing Problems
- Live's MIDI Solutions
- Variables Outside of Live's Control
- Tests and Results
- Tips for Achieving Optimal MIDI Performance
- Summary and Conclusions
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 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 70

Last but not least, you can nd the unused samples for all Projects found in a specic folder

(and its sub-folders): (PC) /

Ctrl

(Mac) on a folder in the File Browser and choose

the Manage Projects command, then see the Unused Samples section. Live inspects each

Project individually and labels a sample unused even if another Projects in the same folder

does use that sample. To prevent losses, you may want to rst collect the samples into their

respective Projects and then purge the Projects of unused samples.

5.12 Packing Projects into Live Packs

Live's File Manager provides the option of packing a Live Project in Live Pack format for

convenient archiving and transfer. To do this, choose the Manage Files command from the

File menu, click the Manage Project button, and then click on the triangular-shaped fold

button next to Packing. Click the Create Live Pack button to bring up a le-select dialog

where you can specify the name and location of a new Live Pack le. Creating a new Live

Pack from a Project does not affect the Project. If you want the Project deleted, you can

delete it using the File Browser.

Live employs lossless compression techniques to minimize the le size of Live Packs. De-

pending on the audio materials in a Project, this saves up to 50 percent in le size.

To unpack a Live Pack (i.e., to restore the original Live Project), double-click the Live Pack

le (.alp), drag it into the Live main window, or locate it via the File menu's Install Live Pack

command. Live will then request that you choose a location for the new Project. Note:

Factory Live Packs (those provided by Ableton) will automatically be installed in the Live

Library.

5.13 File Management FAQs

5.13.1 How Do I Create a Project?

A Project is automatically created whenever you save a Live Set, except when you save it into

the Library or a preexisting Project. You can also manually create a Project by clicking

(PC) /

Ctrl

(Mac) in the Browser and selecting Create Project from the context menu.