User manual ABLETON LIVE 7

[. . . ] 1 Reference Manual Ableton Live 7 Sampler - Operator - Analog - Tension - Electric Session Drums - Drum Machines Orchestral Strings - Orchestral Brass Orchestral Percussion - Orchestral Woodwinds Essential Instrument Collection Live Version 7. 0. 1 for Windows and Mac OS November, 2007 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 Büttner, Alex Koch, Henrik Hahn, Simon Frontzek, Torsten Wendland, Torsten Slama, Eduard Müller, Jeremy Bernstein, Bernard Chavonnet, Carl Seleborg, Claes Johanson, Bernhard Bockelbrink, Nico Starke, Jörg Kluÿmann. Reference Manual by Dennis DeSantis, Kevin Haywood, Rose Knudsen, Gerhard Behles, Jakob Rang, Robert Henke, Torsten Slama. Content provided by: SONiVOX www. sonivoxrocks. com Big Fish Audio www. big shaudio. com Chocolate Audio www. chocolateaudio. com Puremagnetik www. puremagnetik. com Physical Modeling technology provided by: Applied Acoustics Systems www. applied-acoustics. com Copyright 2007 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. [. . . ] Choose MIDI Ctrl from a MIDI clip's Device chooser and use the Control chooser below it to select a speci c MIDI controller. You can create new clip envelopes for any of the listed controllers by drawing steps or using breakpoints. You can also edit clip envelope representations of controller data that is imported as part of your MIDI les or is created CHAPTER 18. CLIP ENVELOPES 254 while recording new clips: Names of controllers that already have clip envelopes appear with an adjacent LED in the Control chooser. Live supports most MIDI controller numbers up to 119, accessible via the scroll bar on the right side of the menu. Note that devices to which you send your MIDI controller messages may not follow the conventions of MIDI control channel assignments, so that Pitch Bend or Pan, for example, will not always achieve the results that their names imply. A MIDI Controller Clip Envelope. Many of the techniques described in the following section on unlinking a clip envelope from its associated clip can be adapted for use with MIDI controller clip envelopes. 18. 5 Unlinking Clip Envelopes From Clips A clip envelope can have its own local loop/region settings. The ability to unlink the envelope from its clip creates an abundance of exciting creative options, some of which we will present in the rest of this chapter. 18. 5. 1 Programming a Fade-Out for a Live Set Let us start with a straightforward example. Suppose you are setting up a Live Set and wish to program a fade-out over eight bars to occur when a speci c clip is launched but all you have is a one-bar loop. CHAPTER 18. CLIP ENVELOPES 2 4 255 1 3 Using a Clip Envelope to Create a Fade-Out Over Several Repetitions of a Loop. 1. The clip envelope's loop braces now appear colored to indicate this envelope now has its own local loop/region settings. The sample will keep looping although the envelope is now playing as a one-shot. Zoom the envelope display out all the way by clicking on the Envelope's time ruler and dragging upwards. Insert a breakpoint at the region end and drag it to the bottom (zero percent). Now, as you play the clip, you can hear the one-bar loop fading out over eight bars. To return to the previous state, please use the Edit menu's Undo command. CHAPTER 18. CLIP ENVELOPES 256 18. 5. 2 Creating Long Loops from Short Loops Let us take this a step further. For a different part of your set, you would like to use the same one-bar loop because it sounds great but its repetition bores you. Now, as you play the clip, you can hear the eight-bar fade-out repeating. You can draw or edit any envelope to superimpose onto the sample loop. This, of course, not only works for volume but for any other control as well; how about a lter sweep every four bars?Note that you can create as much time as needed in the Envelope Editor, either by dragging the loop braces beyond the view limit, or by entering values into the numeric region/loop controls. You can choose an arbitrary loop length for each envelope, including odd lengths like 3. 2. 1. [. . . ] LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 438 26. 14 Clip View Sample Display The shortcuts for zooming and loop/region settings also work in the Sample Display. Windows Move Selected Warp Marker Select Warp Marker Scroll Display to Follow Playback Move Clip Region with Start Marker Ctrl Ctrl F F Macintosh 26. 15 Clip View MIDI Editor The shortcuts for zooming, snapping/drawing and loop/region settings also work in the MIDI Editor. Windows Quantize Scroll Editor Vertically Scroll Editor Horizontally Copy Note Change Velocity From Note Editor Add/Delete Note in Edit Mode Scroll Display to Follow Playback Move Clip Region with Start Marker Ctrl Page Macintosh U Page Page Page Page Page U Page Page Ctrl Ctrl Drag Alt Drag Double-Click Ctrl F Drag Drag Double-Click Alt F CHAPTER 26. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 439 26. 16 Grid Snapping and Drawing Windows Macintosh B 1 2 3 4 5 Toggle Draw Mode Narrow Grid Widen Grid Triplet Grid Snap to Grid Fixed/Zoom-Adaptive Grid Bypass Snapping While Dragging Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Alt B 1 2 3 4 5 26. 17 Global Quantization Windows Macintosh 6 7 8 9 0 Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl 6 7 8 9 0 Sixteenth-Note Quantization Eighth-Note Quantization Quarter-Note Quantization 1-Bar Quantization Quantization Off CHAPTER 26. [. . . ]