User manual ABLETON LIVE INTRO

[. . . ] Live Intro 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 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, Stefan Brunner, Tobias Hahn, Stefan von der Mark, Carsten Henÿinger, Stephan Diehl, David Talbot, Robert Feldbinder, Diez Roggisch, Justine Lera, Dennis DeSantis, Ian Gallagher, Philipp Gries, Marie Hoffmann, Marian Kalus, Stephan Krohn, Michael Dühr, Dennis Fischer. Reference Manual by Dennis DeSantis, Ian Gallagher, Kevin Haywood, Rose Knudsen, Gerhard Behles, Jakob Rang, Robert Henke, Torsten Slama. Content provided by: SONiVOX www. sonivoxrocks. com Chocolate Audio www. chocolateaudio. com Puremagnetik www. puremagnetik. com Cycling '74 www. cycling74. com SonArte www. sonarte. ca e-instruments www. e-instruments. com Zero-G www. zero-g. co. uk Physical Modeling technology provided by: Applied Acoustics Systems www. applied-acoustics. com Copyright 2009 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. [. . . ] WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 203 A MIDI Track's Device Chain Can Contain All Three Device Types. To remove a device from the chain, click on its title bar and press your computer's or Delete key, or select Delete from the Edit menu. To change the order of devices, drag a device by its title bar and drop it next to any of the other devices in the Track View. Devices can be moved to other tracks entirely by dragging them from the Track View into the Session or Arrangement Views. Edit menu commands such as cut, copy, paste and duplicate can be used on devices. You can paste at the end of a device chain by clicking in the space after the last device, or by using the key to move the selection there. Generally, devices can be placed, reordered and deleted without interrupting the audio stream. Device Activator Switches. Devices are turned on and off using their Activator switches. Turning a device off is like temporarily deleting it: The signal remains unprocessed, and the device does not consume CPU cycles. Live devices generally do not load down the CPU unless they are active. The Freeze Track command discussed there is especially helpful when working with CPU-intensive devices. CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 204 Devices in Live's tracks have input and output level meters. These meters are helpful in nding problematic devices in the device chain: Low or absent signals will be revealed by the level meters, and relevant device settings can then be adjusted, or the device can be turned off or removed. The Level Meters Between Devices in a Chain. Note that no clipping can occur between devices because there is practically unlimited headroom. Clipping can occur when an overly strong signal is sent to a physical output or written to a sample le. Further information about track types in Live can be found in the Routing and I/O chapter, including information on using return tracks to distribute the effect of a single device amongst several tracks. After reading about using devices in Live, it might also be interesting to look into clip envelopes, which can modulate individual device parameters on a per-clip basis. 16. 1. 1 Live Device Presets Every Live device can store and retrieve their parameter settings as presets. Presets for Live instruments and effects are managed through the Device Browser. Each device appears there as a folder that can be opened to reveal its presets. CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 205 Presets in the Device Browser. You can browse and load presets quickly with the computer keyboard: Scroll up and down using the Press and keys. and keys. Close and open device folders using the Return to load a device or preset. The Hot-Swap Presets Button. Clicking a device's Hot-Swap Presets button will temporarily link the Browser to a device, calling up its presets in the Device Browser. With the device and Browser linked in this manner, you can quickly browse, load and audition different presets. You can even replace the current device with a new one by simply selecting another device's preset. To load a device's default factory settings, select the parent folder of its presets (i. e. , the one with the device's name) from the Device Browser. The link between the Device Browser and the device will be broken if a different view is selected, or if the Hot-Swap button is pressed again. [. . . ] Windows Finer Resolution for Dragging Enable Dragging Over Breakpoints Ctrl Macintosh 31. 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 31. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 377 31. 13 Zooming, Display and Selections Windows Macintosh + - Zoom In Zoom Out Drag/Click to Append to a Selection Click to Add Adjacent Clips/Tracks/Scenes to Multi-Selection Click to Add Nonadjacent Clips/Tracks/Scenes to a Multi-Selection Follow (Auto-Scroll) Pan Left/Right of Selection + - Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl F Alt F Alt 31. 14 Clip View Sample Display The shortcuts for zooming and loop/region settings also work in the Sample Display. Move Selected Warp Marker Select Warp Marker Scroll Display to Follow Playback Move Clip Region with Start Marker Ctrl U Ctrl U Macintosh U U Ctrl Ctrl F F CHAPTER 31. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 378 31. 15 Clip View MIDI Editor The shortcuts for zooming, snapping/drawing and loop/region settings also work in the MIDI Editor. [. . . ]