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Chapter 5
Managing Files and Sets
Various types of les are used in making music with Live, from those containing MIDI and
audio, to more program-specic les such as Live Clips and Live Sets. This chapter will
explain everything you need to know about working with each of these le types in Live.
However, we should rst take a look at Live's File Browsers, through which most les arrive
in the program.
5.1 Working with the File Browsers
5.1.1 Browsing the Folder Hierarchy
Files are browsed and imported from disk using Live's on-board Browsers, which can be
pointed to any folder location on the computer. The Browsers can also be searched based
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- Welcome to Live 3
- 1.2.1 Remix Features 4
- 1.2.5 Editing MIDI 5
- 1.2.7 Resources 6
- 1.2.9 Using Devices 6
- 1.2.10 Miscellaneous 7
- First Steps 8
- 2.1 Lear n About Live 9
- 2.2 Setting up Preferences 10
- 2.3 The Main Live Screen 11
- A View Selector 12
- A View Show/Hide 12
- 2.3. THE MAIN LIVE SCREEN 11 13
- Unlocking Live 14
- The Products Tab in the 15
- Preferences 15
- Selecting the Unlock 15
- Button in the Products 15
- 3.2 Step 2: Unlocking Live 16
- 3.2.1 The Unlock Key 17
- 3.2.2 The Challenge Code 17
- 3.2.3 Unlocking Online 17
- 3.2.4 Unlocking Ofine 18
- The Unlock Key Can Be 19
- Downloaded as a Text 19
- Manually Enter Your 20
- Unlock Key 20
- 3.3 Copy Protection FAQs 21
- Click Here if You Are 22
- Interested in Buying 22
- Click Here to Hide a 24
- Product's Features 24
- 3.3. COPY PROTECTION FAQS 23 25
- . They are happy to help! 25
- Live Basics 26
- 4.2 Arrangement and Session 27
- 4.3 Tracks 28
- A Track in the 29
- A Scene in the Session 29
- 4.4 Audio and MIDI 30
- 4.5 Audio Clips and Samples 31
- 4.6 MIDI Clips and MIDI Files 32
- 4.7 Devices and the Mixer 34
- The Live Mixer in the 37
- Arrangement View (Top) 37
- Live's Crossfader 38
- MIDI Effects, an 38
- Instrument and Audio 38
- Effects in a MIDI Track 38
- 4.8 Presets and Device Groups 39
- 4.9 Routing 39
- Track Routing Is Set up 40
- Using the In/Out Section 40
- (Top) or Session View 40
- 4.10 Recording New Clips 41
- 4.11 Automation Envelopes 42
- 4.12 Clip Envelopes 43
- 4.13 MIDI and Key Remote 43
- 4.14 Saving and Exporting 44
- A Live Clip in the File 45
- Browser 45
- 4.15 The Library 46
- 4.15. THE LIBRARY 45 47
- Managing Files and Sets 48
- 5.1.2 Searching for Files 50
- 5.1.3 Previewing Files 52
- Dropping a Clip to 53
- Create a New Track 53
- 5.2 Sample Files 54
- 5.2.1 The Decoding Cache 55
- 5.2.2 Analysis Files (.asd) 56
- 5.2.3 File Pre-Analysis 57
- 5.2.4 Exporting Audio 57
- 5.3 MIDI Files 59
- 5.4 Live Clips 60
- A Live Clip in the 61
- 5.5 Live Sets 62
- 5.5.3 Template Sets 63
- 5.6 Ofine and Lost Files 64
- 5.8 Live Packs 65
- 6.1 Navigation 67
- 6.2 Transport 68
- Using Locators to 70
- Launch Play in the 70
- Arrangement 70
- The Locator Controls 71
- 6.4 The Arrangement Loop 72
- 6.5 Moving and Resizing Clips 73
- 6.6 Selecting Clips and Time 74
- 6.7 Using the Editing Grid 75
- A Gap Between Clips 76
- Has Been Deleted by 76
- First Selecting it, Then 76
- Executing the Delete 76
- Time Command 76
- 6.9 Splitting Clips 77
- 6.10 Consolidating Clips 78
- Session View 80
- 7.1 Session View Clips 81
- 7.2 Tracks and Scenes 82
- A Session View Scene 83
- This Scene Will Change 83
- 7.3 The Track Status Fields 84
- Dropping Multiple Clips 85
- 7.4.1 Select on Launch 86
- 7.4.3 Editing Scenes 86
- The Control Bar's Record 88
- The Arrangement 88
- The Stop All Clips 89
- Clip View 90
- Clicking a Session View 91
- Track Status Field Opens 91
- Creating a Clip 91
- Multi-Selection 91
- The Clip View for an 92
- Audio Clip 92
- 8.1 The Clip Box 94
- 8.1.3 Clip Signature 95
- 8.1.4 Groove 95
- 8.1.5 Clip Offset and Nudging 96
- 8.1. THE CLIP BOX 95 97
- 8.2 The Sample Box 98
- The Control Bar's Tempo 99
- Control 99
- The Clip Zoom/Scroll 100
- The Clip Overview 100
- The Follow Switch 101
- The Clip Start and End 101
- Markers 101
- Using Clip Start and End 102
- Controls to Change Clip 102
- The Clip Scrub Area 102
- The Clip Loop Controls 103
- Setting the Clip to Run 104
- Into a Loop 104
- 8.2.3 Clip Pitch and Gain 105
- The Replace Sample 106
- The Save Default Clip 107
- The High Quality Switch 107
- 8.2.9 Clip RAM Mode 108
- 8.2.10 Reversing Samples 109
- 8.3 The Notes Box 110
- 8.3.1 Tempo Controls 111
- 8.3.2 Bank and Program Change 111
- 8.3.3 MIDI Loop/Region 111
- Tempo Control and Warping 113
- 9.1.2 Tapping the Tempo 114
- 9.2 Time-Warping Samples 115
- 9.2.1 Syncing Straight Loops 116
- 9.2.2 Syncing Uncut Loops 117
- Setting the Warp 118
- Markers for a Badly Cut 118
- 9.2.4 Manipulating Grooves 119
- 9.2.5 Syncing Longer Pieces 120
- The Metronome Switch 121
- Using the Context Menu 121
- 9.3.1 Beats Mode 123
- 9.3.2 Tones Mode 124
- 9.3.3 Texture Mode 124
- 9.3.4 Re-Pitch Mode 124
- 9.4 Deactivating Warping 125
- Chapter 10 126
- 10.2 The MIDI Editor 127
- The Control Bar's Draw 128
- Mode Switch 128
- Previewing MIDI Notes 128
- Note Scale Position Is 129
- Shown Vertically and 129
- Beat-Time Horizontally 129
- MIDI Editor Navigation 130
- The Control Bar's Follow 131
- The MIDI Clip Scrub 131
- 10.4 Editing MIDI 132
- 10.4.3 Grid Snapping 133
- Quantizing MIDI Notes 135
- Copying (Above) and 136
- Pasting (Below) a Loop 136
- 10.4.6 Changing Note Length 137
- 10.4.7 Editing Velocities 137
- Changing Note Velocity 138
- 10.4. EDITING MIDI 137 139
- 10.4.8 Deactivating Notes 140
- Launching Clips 141
- 11.2 Launch Modes 142
- 11.3 Clip-Level Quantization 143
- 11.4 Velocity 144
- 11.5 Legato Mode 144
- 11.6 Follow Actions 145
- Creating a Group With 147
- 11.6.2 Creating Cycles 148
- Routing and I/O 151
- The Mixer's In/Out 152
- Section and Mixer 152
- Section Selectors 152
- 12.1 Monitoring 153
- 12.2 Exter nal Audio In/Out 154
- 12.3 Exter nal MIDI In/Out 155
- Activating the Computer 156
- MIDI Keyboard 156
- 12.3.4 MIDI In/Out Indicators 157
- 12.4 Master and Cue Outs 158
- 12.5 ReWire Slave Routing 158
- An Audio Track 159
- Receiving Audio From 159
- Sending MIDI to Reason 159
- 12.6 Resampling 160
- 12.7 Inter nal Routings 161
- 12.7.1 Post-Effects Recording 162
- Recording the Output of 163
- Audio Tracks 163
- 12.7.3 Creating Submixes 164
- MIDI Track Into an 165
- Existing MIDI Track to 165
- Reuse its Instrument 165
- Feeding an Additional 165
- The Instrument Has 166
- Been Isolated in a 166
- Dedicated Track 166
- Using Impulse's 167
- Individual Outs to 167
- Separately Process 167
- Sample Slots 167
- Tracks Feeding MIDI to 168
- From the Parts of a 168
- Multi-Timbral 168
- Instrument 168
- 12.7.8 Layering Instruments 169
- 12.7. INTERNAL ROUTINGS 168 170
- Chapter 13 171
- The Arrangement View 172
- The Session View Mixer 172
- The Mixer Section 173
- Selector 173
- The Mixer Controls 173
- 13.2 Audio and MIDI Tracks 174
- Tracks are Represented 175
- The Send Controls and 176
- Pre/Post Toggle 176
- The Crossfader 177
- A Track's Crossfade 177
- Assign Buttons 177
- 13.5 Soloing and Cueing 178
- The Cueing-Related 179
- Session Mixer Controls 179
- 13.6 Track Delays 180
- Recording New Clips 181
- 14.1 Choosing an Input 182
- Track Arm Buttons in the 183
- Session (Left) and 183
- Arrangement (Right) 183
- 14.3 Recording 184
- Recording a New Clip 186
- Into the Session View 186
- 14.4 Recording in Sync 188
- The Preview Volume 189
- 14.6 Recording with Count-in 190
- 14.7 Setting up File Types 190
- The Scene Up/Down 191
- Buttons 191
- A Track Launch Button 192
- Working with Instruments and 193
- Devices in the Track 194
- 15.1 Using the Live Devices 195
- MIDI and Audio Track 196
- Arm Buttons 196
- A MIDI Track's Device 197
- Chain Can Contain All 197
- Three Device Types 197
- A Device Activator 197
- 15.1.1 Live Device Presets 198
- The Browse Presets 199
- The Preset Save Button 200
- Opening Search Mode 201
- Exiting Search Mode 201
- 15.1.2 Device Groups 202
- 15.2 Using Plug-Ins 203
- The Plug-In Device 204
- Browser and Selector 204
- A VST Plug-In in the 205
- Track View 205
- The Plug-In Unfold 206
- The Plug-In Edit Button 206
- 15.3 VST Plug-Ins 208
- Setting up VST Plug-In 209
- Sources for Windows 209
- Sources for Mac OS X 210
- 15.3.2 VST Programs and Banks 211
- 15.4 Audio Units Plug-Ins 213
- Activating Audio Units 214
- Plug-Ins 214
- Opening an Audio Units 214
- Plug-In Window 214
- Chapter 16 216
- 16.2 Deleting Automation 217
- 16.3 Overriding Automation 217
- The Back to 218
- Arrangement Button 218
- An Automation 218
- Envelope in the 218
- Arrangement View 218
- 16.4.1 Drawing Envelopes 219
- 16.4.2 Editing Breakpoints 220
- 16.4.3 Locking Envelopes 221
- 16.4.4 Edit Menu Commands 222
- The Tempo Envelope 223
- Clip Envelopes 224
- 17.1 The Clip Envelope Editor 225
- 17.2 Audio Clip Envelopes 227
- The Transposition 228
- Envelope with Steps 228
- (Top) and Ramps 228
- (Bottom) 228
- 17.2.4 Scrambling Beats 229
- Repeating Steps and 230
- Slowing Time with the 230
- Sample Offset Envelope 230
- 17.3.2 Modulating Pan 232
- A MIDI-Controller Clip 234
- Envelope 234
- Using a Clip Envelope to 235
- Create a Fade-Out Over 235
- Several Repetitions of a 235
- The Sample (Left) and 236
- Envelope (Right) Start 236
- 17.5.4 Clip Envelopes as LFOs 237
- Live Audio Effect Reference 238
- 18.1 Auto Filter 239
- controls dene the 240
- 18.2 Auto Pan 241
- 18.3 Beat Repeat 242
- 18.4 Chorus 244
- 18.5 Compressor I 246
- 18.6 Compressor II 248
- 18.7 EQ Three 250
- 18.8 EQ Four 251
- 18.9 Erosion 252
- 18.10 Filter Delay 253
- 18.11 Flanger 255
- 18.12 Gate 256
- 18.13 Grain Delay 258
- 18.14 Phaser 260
- 18.15 Ping Pong Delay 261
- 18.16 Saturator 263
- 18.17 Simple Delay 264
- 18.18 Vinyl Distortion 265
- 18.19 Redux 266
- 18.20 Resonators 267
- 18.21 Reverb 269
- 18.21.2 Early Reections 270
- 18.21.3 Global Settings 270
- 18.21.4 Diffusion Network 271
- 18.21.5 Output 271
- 18.22 Utility 272
- 18.22. UTILITY 271 273
- Live MIDI Effect Reference 274
- 19.1 Arpeggiator 275
- 19.1. ARPEGGIATOR 274 276
- 19.2 Chord 279
- 19.3 Pitch 280
- 19.4 Random 281
- 19.5 Scale 282
- 19.6 Velocity 283
- Live Instrument Reference 285
- 20.1 Impulse 286
- 20.1.3 Filter 288
- 20.1.4 Saturator and Envelope 288
- 20.1.5 Pan and Volume 288
- 20.2 Simpler 289
- 20.2.1 Sample View 290
- 20.2.2 Sample Controls 290
- 20.2.3 Zoom 291
- 20.2.4 Envelope 291
- 20.2.5 Filter 292
- 20.2.6 LFO 292
- 20.2.8 Glide and Spread 294
- 20.3 Operator 295
- Operator Folded 296
- Operator's Global 297
- Display 297
- Oscillator D's Display 298
- 20.3.3 LFO Section 300
- 20.3.4 Envelopes 301
- 20.3.5 Filter Section 303
- 20.3.6 Global Controls 304
- 20.3.7 Glide and Spread 305
- 20.3.9 Finally 306
- MIDI and Key Remote Control 314
- 21.1 Keyboard Remote Control 315
- 21.2 MIDI Remote Control 316
- Selecting a MIDI Device 317
- The MIDI Map Mode 317
- 21.2.3 Mapping to MIDI Notes 318
- and Twos 320
- 065127 063001 320
- The Relative Session 321
- Mapping Strip 321
- Mackie Control 323
- 22.1 Channel Strips 325
- The V-Pots and 327
- Assignment Switches 327
- Bank, Channel, Flip and 330
- Return Buttons 330
- 22.4 Transport 332
- The Software-Specic 335
- Controls 335
- Synchronization and ReWire 337
- Choosing a MIDI Slave 338
- 23.1.3 MIDI Timecode Options 339
- 23.2 Connecting via ReWire 340
- 23.2.3 More on ReWire 342
- Computer Audio Resources and 344
- Strategies 344
- The CPU Load Meter 345
- 24.1.3 Track Freeze 346
- 24.2 Managing the Disk Load 347
- The Disk Overload 348
- Indicator 348
- Live Keyboard Shortcuts 349
- 25.2 Accessing Menus 350
- 25.3 Adjusting Values 350
- 25.4 Browsing 351
- 25.5 Transport 351
- 25.6 Editing 352
- 25.8 Session View Commands 353
- 25.10 Commands for Tracks 354
- 25.15 Clip View MIDI Editor 357
- 25.17 Global Quantization 358
- 25.20 Using the Context Menu 359
- Chapter 26 361
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