Ableton Live - 5.0 manuals

Welcome to Live

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1.2.1 Remix Features

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1.2.5 Editing MIDI

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1.2.7 Resources

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1.2.9 Using Devices

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1.2.10 Miscellaneous

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First Steps

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2.1 Lear n About Live

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2.2 Setting up Preferences

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2.3 The Main Live Screen

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A View Selector

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A View Show/Hide

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2.3. THE MAIN LIVE SCREEN 11

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Unlocking Live

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The Products Tab in the

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Preferences

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Selecting the Unlock

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Button in the Products

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3.2 Step 2: Unlocking Live

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3.2.1 The Unlock Key

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3.2.2 The Challenge Code

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3.2.3 Unlocking Online

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3.2.4 Unlocking Ofine

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The Unlock Key Can Be

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Downloaded as a Text

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Manually Enter Your

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Unlock Key

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3.3 Copy Protection FAQs

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Click Here if You Are

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Interested in Buying

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Click Here to Hide a

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Product's Features

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3.3. COPY PROTECTION FAQS 23

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. They are happy to help!

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Live Basics

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4.2 Arrangement and Session

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4.3 Tracks

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A Track in the

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A Scene in the Session

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4.4 Audio and MIDI

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4.5 Audio Clips and Samples

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4.6 MIDI Clips and MIDI Files

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4.7 Devices and the Mixer

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The Live Mixer in the

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Arrangement View (Top)

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Live's Crossfader

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MIDI Effects, an

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Instrument and Audio

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Effects in a MIDI Track

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4.8 Presets and Device Groups

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4.9 Routing

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Track Routing Is Set up

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Using the In/Out Section

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(Top) or Session View

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4.10 Recording New Clips

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4.11 Automation Envelopes

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4.12 Clip Envelopes

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4.13 MIDI and Key Remote

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4.14 Saving and Exporting

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A Live Clip in the File

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Browser

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4.15 The Library

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4.15. THE LIBRARY 45

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Managing Files and Sets

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5.1.2 Searching for Files

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5.1.3 Previewing Files

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Dropping a Clip to

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Create a New Track

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5.2 Sample Files

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5.2.1 The Decoding Cache

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5.2.2 Analysis Files (.asd)

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5.2.3 File Pre-Analysis

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5.2.4 Exporting Audio

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5.3 MIDI Files

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5.4 Live Clips

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A Live Clip in the

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5.5 Live Sets

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5.5.3 Template Sets

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5.6 Ofine and Lost Files

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5.8 Live Packs

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6.1 Navigation

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6.2 Transport

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Using Locators to

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Launch Play in the

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Arrangement

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The Locator Controls

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6.4 The Arrangement Loop

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6.5 Moving and Resizing Clips

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6.6 Selecting Clips and Time

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6.7 Using the Editing Grid

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A Gap Between Clips

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Has Been Deleted by

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First Selecting it, Then

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Executing the Delete

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Time Command

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6.9 Splitting Clips

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6.10 Consolidating Clips

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Session View

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7.1 Session View Clips

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7.2 Tracks and Scenes

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A Session View Scene

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This Scene Will Change

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7.3 The Track Status Fields

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Dropping Multiple Clips

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7.4.1 Select on Launch

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7.4.3 Editing Scenes

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The Control Bar's Record

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The Arrangement

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The Stop All Clips

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Clip View

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Clicking a Session View

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Track Status Field Opens

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Creating a Clip

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Multi-Selection

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The Clip View for an

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Audio Clip

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8.1 The Clip Box

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8.1.3 Clip Signature

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8.1.4 Groove

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8.1.5 Clip Offset and Nudging

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8.1. THE CLIP BOX 95

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8.2 The Sample Box

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The Control Bar's Tempo

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Control

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The Clip Zoom/Scroll

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The Clip Overview

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The Follow Switch

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The Clip Start and End

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Markers

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Using Clip Start and End

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Controls to Change Clip

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The Clip Scrub Area

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The Clip Loop Controls

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Setting the Clip to Run

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Into a Loop

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8.2.3 Clip Pitch and Gain

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The Replace Sample

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The Save Default Clip

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The High Quality Switch

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8.2.9 Clip RAM Mode

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8.2.10 Reversing Samples

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8.3 The Notes Box

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8.3.1 Tempo Controls

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8.3.2 Bank and Program Change

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8.3.3 MIDI Loop/Region

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Tempo Control and Warping

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9.1.2 Tapping the Tempo

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9.2 Time-Warping Samples

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9.2.1 Syncing Straight Loops

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9.2.2 Syncing Uncut Loops

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Setting the Warp

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Markers for a Badly Cut

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9.2.4 Manipulating Grooves

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9.2.5 Syncing Longer Pieces

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The Metronome Switch

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Using the Context Menu

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9.3.1 Beats Mode

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9.3.2 Tones Mode

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9.3.3 Texture Mode

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9.3.4 Re-Pitch Mode

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9.4 Deactivating Warping

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Chapter 10

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10.2 The MIDI Editor

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The Control Bar's Draw

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Mode Switch

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Previewing MIDI Notes

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Note Scale Position Is

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Shown Vertically and

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Beat-Time Horizontally

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MIDI Editor Navigation

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The Control Bar's Follow

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The MIDI Clip Scrub

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10.4 Editing MIDI

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10.4.3 Grid Snapping

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Quantizing MIDI Notes

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Copying (Above) and

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Pasting (Below) a Loop

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10.4.6 Changing Note Length

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10.4.7 Editing Velocities

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Changing Note Velocity

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10.4. EDITING MIDI 137

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10.4.8 Deactivating Notes

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Launching Clips

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11.2 Launch Modes

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11.3 Clip-Level Quantization

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11.4 Velocity

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11.5 Legato Mode

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11.6 Follow Actions

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Creating a Group With

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11.6.2 Creating Cycles

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Routing and I/O

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The Mixer's In/Out

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Section and Mixer

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Section Selectors

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12.1 Monitoring

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12.2 Exter nal Audio In/Out

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12.3 Exter nal MIDI In/Out

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Activating the Computer

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MIDI Keyboard

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12.3.4 MIDI In/Out Indicators

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12.4 Master and Cue Outs

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12.5 ReWire Slave Routing

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An Audio Track

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Receiving Audio From

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Sending MIDI to Reason

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12.6 Resampling

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12.7 Inter nal Routings

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12.7.1 Post-Effects Recording

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Recording the Output of

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Audio Tracks

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12.7.3 Creating Submixes

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MIDI Track Into an

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Existing MIDI Track to

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Reuse its Instrument

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Feeding an Additional

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The Instrument Has

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Been Isolated in a

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Dedicated Track

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Using Impulse's

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Individual Outs to

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Separately Process

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Sample Slots

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Tracks Feeding MIDI to

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From the Parts of a

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Multi-Timbral

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Instrument

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12.7.8 Layering Instruments

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12.7. INTERNAL ROUTINGS 168

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Chapter 13

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The Arrangement View

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The Session View Mixer

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The Mixer Section

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Selector

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The Mixer Controls

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13.2 Audio and MIDI Tracks

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Tracks are Represented

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The Send Controls and

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Pre/Post Toggle

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The Crossfader

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A Track's Crossfade

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Assign Buttons

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13.5 Soloing and Cueing

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The Cueing-Related

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Session Mixer Controls

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13.6 Track Delays

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Recording New Clips

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14.1 Choosing an Input

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Track Arm Buttons in the

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Session (Left) and

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Arrangement (Right)

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14.3 Recording

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Recording a New Clip

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Into the Session View

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14.4 Recording in Sync

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The Preview Volume

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14.6 Recording with Count-in

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14.7 Setting up File Types

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The Scene Up/Down

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Buttons

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A Track Launch Button

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Working with Instruments and

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Devices in the Track

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15.1 Using the Live Devices

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MIDI and Audio Track

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Arm Buttons

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A MIDI Track's Device

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Chain Can Contain All

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Three Device Types

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A Device Activator

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15.1.1 Live Device Presets

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The Browse Presets

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The Preset Save Button

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Opening Search Mode

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Exiting Search Mode

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15.1.2 Device Groups

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15.2 Using Plug-Ins

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The Plug-In Device

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Browser and Selector

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A VST Plug-In in the

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Track View

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The Plug-In Unfold

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The Plug-In Edit Button

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15.3 VST Plug-Ins

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Setting up VST Plug-In

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Sources for Windows

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Sources for Mac OS X

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15.3.2 VST Programs and Banks

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15.4 Audio Units Plug-Ins

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Activating Audio Units

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Plug-Ins

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Opening an Audio Units

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Plug-In Window

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Chapter 16

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16.2 Deleting Automation

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16.3 Overriding Automation

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The Back to

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Arrangement Button

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An Automation

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Envelope in the

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Arrangement View

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16.4.1 Drawing Envelopes

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16.4.2 Editing Breakpoints

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16.4.3 Locking Envelopes

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16.4.4 Edit Menu Commands

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The Tempo Envelope

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Clip Envelopes

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17.1 The Clip Envelope Editor

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17.2 Audio Clip Envelopes

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The Transposition

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Envelope with Steps

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(Top) and Ramps

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(Bottom)

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17.2.4 Scrambling Beats

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Repeating Steps and

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Slowing Time with the

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Sample Offset Envelope

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17.3.2 Modulating Pan

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A MIDI-Controller Clip

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Envelope

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Using a Clip Envelope to

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Create a Fade-Out Over

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Several Repetitions of a

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The Sample (Left) and

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Envelope (Right) Start

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17.5.4 Clip Envelopes as LFOs

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Live Audio Effect Reference

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18.1 Auto Filter

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controls dene the

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18.2 Auto Pan

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18.3 Beat Repeat

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18.4 Chorus

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18.5 Compressor I

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18.6 Compressor II

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18.7 EQ Three

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18.8 EQ Four

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18.9 Erosion

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18.10 Filter Delay

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18.11 Flanger

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18.12 Gate

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18.13 Grain Delay

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18.14 Phaser

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18.15 Ping Pong Delay

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18.16 Saturator

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18.17 Simple Delay

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18.18 Vinyl Distortion

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18.19 Redux

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18.20 Resonators

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18.21 Reverb

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18.21.2 Early Reections

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18.21.3 Global Settings

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18.21.4 Diffusion Network

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18.21.5 Output

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18.22 Utility

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18.22. UTILITY 271

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Live MIDI Effect Reference

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19.1 Arpeggiator

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19.1. ARPEGGIATOR 274

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19.2 Chord

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19.3 Pitch

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19.4 Random

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19.5 Scale

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19.6 Velocity

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Live Instrument Reference

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20.1 Impulse

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20.1.3 Filter

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20.1.4 Saturator and Envelope

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20.1.5 Pan and Volume

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20.2 Simpler

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20.2.1 Sample View

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20.2.2 Sample Controls

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20.2.3 Zoom

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20.2.4 Envelope

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20.2.5 Filter

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20.2.6 LFO

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20.2.8 Glide and Spread

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20.3 Operator

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Operator Folded

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Operator's Global

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Display

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Oscillator D's Display

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20.3.3 LFO Section

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20.3.4 Envelopes

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20.3.5 Filter Section

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20.3.6 Global Controls

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20.3.7 Glide and Spread

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20.3.9 Finally

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MIDI and Key Remote Control

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21.1 Keyboard Remote Control

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21.2 MIDI Remote Control

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Selecting a MIDI Device

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The MIDI Map Mode

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21.2.3 Mapping to MIDI Notes

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and Twos

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The Relative Session

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Mapping Strip

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Mackie Control

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22.1 Channel Strips

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The V-Pots and

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Assignment Switches

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Bank, Channel, Flip and

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Return Buttons

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22.4 Transport

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The Software-Specic

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Controls

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Synchronization and ReWire

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Choosing a MIDI Slave

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23.1.3 MIDI Timecode Options

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23.2 Connecting via ReWire

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23.2.3 More on ReWire

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Computer Audio Resources and

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Strategies

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The CPU Load Meter

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24.1.3 Track Freeze

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24.2 Managing the Disk Load

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The Disk Overload

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Indicator

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Live Keyboard Shortcuts

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25.2 Accessing Menus

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25.3 Adjusting Values

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25.4 Browsing

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25.5 Transport

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25.6 Editing

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25.8 Session View Commands

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25.10 Commands for Tracks

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25.15 Clip View MIDI Editor

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25.17 Global Quantization

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25.20 Using the Context Menu

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Chapter 26

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