User manual ABLETON LIVE 6

[. . . ] 1 Live Version 6. 0 for Windows and Mac OS Created by Bernd Roggendorf, Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke, Awi, Reiner Rudolph, Stefan Haller, Stefan Franke, Frank Hoffmann, Andreas Zapf, Ralf Suckow, Gregor Klinke, Matthias Mayrock, Friedemann Schautz, Ingo Koehne, Jakob Rang, Pablo Sara, Nicholas Allen, Henrik Lafrenz, Jan Buchholz, Kevin Haywood, Dominik Wilms, Christian Kleine, Amaury Groc, Daniel Buettner, Alex Koch, Henrik Hahn, Simon Frontzek, Torsten Wendland, Torsten Slama, Eduard Mueller, Jeremy Bernstein, Bernard Chavonnet. Reference Manual by Kevin Haywood, Rose Knudsen, Gerhard Behles, Jakob Rang, Robert Henke, Torsten Slama. Web: www. sonivoxrocks. com Drum samples provided by Big Fish Audio. Copyright 2006 Ableton AG. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. [. . . ] They can also be placed in MIDI tracks, as long as they are downstream from an instrument. Instrument Racks contain instruments, but can additionally contain both MIDI and audio effects. In this case, all MIDI effects have to be at the beginning of the Instrument Rack's device chain, followed by an instrument, and then any audio effects. There are different ways to create Racks. A new, empty Rack can be created by dragging a generic Rack preset ( Audio Effect Rack, for example) from the Device Browser into a track. Devices can then be dropped directly into the Rack's Chain List or Devices view, which are introduced in the next section. If a track already has one or more devices that you would like to group into a Rack, then simply select the title bars of those devices in the Track View, and use the Edit menu's Group command. Alternatively, (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) on one of the selected title bars to open a context menu featuring the same command. Note that if you repeat the command again on the same device, you will create a Rack within a Rack. To ungroup devices, dismantling their Racks, select the Rack's title bar, and then use the Edit menu or the context menu to access the Ungroup command. CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENT AND EFFECT RACKS 208 16. 3 1 Looking at Racks 2 3 4 5 Components of a Rack. 1. Racks have three distinct views that can be shown or hidden as needed. Therefore, every Rack has a view column on its far left side that holds the corresponding view selectors. Racks are also identi able by their round corners, which bracket and enclose their content. When the Devices view is shown, the end bracket visually detaches itself to keep the Rack hierarchy clear. To move, copy or delete an entire Rack at once, simply select it by its title bar (as opposed to the title bars of any devices that it contains). When selected, a Rack can also be renamed by using the Edit menu's Rename command. When all of a Rack's views are hidden, its title bar will fold into the view column, making the entire Rack as slim as possible. CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENT AND EFFECT RACKS 209 Racks Can Be Very Compact. If you would like to locate a particular device in a Rack without searching manually through its entire contents, you will appreciate this navigation shortcut: (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) on the Track View selector, and a hierarchical list of all devices in the track's device chain will appear. Simply select an entry from the list, and Live will select that device and move it into view for you. Navigate Racks Quickly Via a Context Menu. CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENT AND EFFECT RACKS 210 16. 4 Chain List The Chain List. As signals enter a Rack, they are rst greeted by the Chain List. The Chain List represents the branching point for incoming signals: Each parallel device chain starts here, as an entry in the list. Below the list is a drop area, where new chains can be added by dragging and dropping presets, devices, or even pre-existing chains. [. . . ] Windows Insert Audio Track Insert MIDI Track Insert Return Track Rename Selected Track While Renaming, Go to next Track Arm/Solo Multiple Tracks Add Device from Browser Ctrl T Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Alt R T T Alt R Macintosh T T T Click Double-Click Ctrl Click Double-Click CHAPTER 26. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 368 26. 11 Commands for Breakpoint Envelopes The shortcuts for zooming, snapping/drawing and loop/region settings also work in the Envelope Editor and Arrangement View. Windows Finer Resolution for Dragging Enable Dragging Over Breakpoints Ctrl Macintosh 26. 12 Key/MIDI Map Mode and the Computer MIDI Keyboard Windows Macintosh M K K K Toggle MIDI Map Mode Toggle Key Map Mode Computer MIDI Keyboard Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl M K CHAPTER 26. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 369 26. 13 Zooming, Display and Selections Windows Macintosh + - Zoom In Zoom Out Drag/Click to Append to a Selection Click to Add Adjacent Clips to Multi-Selection Click to Add Nonadjacent Clips to a Multi-Selection Follow (Auto-Scroll) Pan Left/Right of Selection + - Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl F Alt F Alt 26. 14 Clip View Sample Display The shortcuts for zooming and loop/region settings also work in the Sample Display. [. . . ]