Reference Manual

CHAPTER 8. CLIP VIEW 110
8.3.1 Tempo Controls
The Orig. BPM eld displays Live's interpretation of the tempo at which the clip's MIDI
was recorded. When dragging up or down in the Original BPM eld, or clicking the :2 and
*2 buttons, you will see that the notes in the MIDI Editor are correspondingly stretched
or compressed. This is useful for aligning notes that you have recorded without a tempo
reference, like Live's metronome.
8.3.2 Bank and Program Change
Live can send MIDI bank/program change messages to external devices. According to the
settings in these controls, launching a clip also sends its bank/program change message. If
you are using Live to send MIDI to your synth, this means that each MIDI clip in your Live
Set can play a different sound on your synth. Live offers messages for 128 banks with 128
sub-banks, each of which has 128 programs. Please see the documentation that came with
your synthesizer to determine how many of these messages it can use. If you do not want
your clip to send program or bank change messages, simply set the bank/program choosers
to None.
8.3.3 MIDI Loop/Region
These controls manage how the contents of a MIDI clip are played and shown in the MIDI
Editor. They work the same way as those for audio clips.
In the MIDI Editor, the zoom/scroll area is located above the beat-time ruler, the scrub area
just below.
8.4 Clip Defaults and Update Rate
You can change the rate at which Live applies your Clip View settings to a running clip. Clip
View changes will be quantized by the rate selected from the Clip Update Rate chooser in
the Record/Warp/Launch Preferences. Certain clip settings, such as Launch Mode and Warp