User manual ABLETON LIVE 7 LE

[. . . ] Ableton Live 7 LE Reference Manual Live LE 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. 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 2008 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. [. . . ] 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 15. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 195 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. Preset hot-swapping can also be cancelled with a press of the Esc key. Note that although importing via the Browser is the recommended method, presets can also be dropped directly into Live from the Explorer (Windows)/Finder (Mac). CHAPTER 15. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 196 Saving Presets You can create and save any number of your own presets in the Device Browser. The Save Preset Button. Click the Save Preset button to save a device's current settings (including any custom info text) as a new preset. You will be redirected to the Browser, where you can press Return to use Live's suggested name, or you can type one of your own. You can also save presets to speci c folders in the Browser (such as your Current Project folder) by dragging from the title bar of the device and dropping into the Browser location of your choice. For detailed information on what can be done with the Browser, please see the Managing Files and Sets chapter. For more on how to store project-speci c presets, see the appropriate section. Default Presets Presets saved to the Defaults folders in Live's Library will load in place of Live's generic device settings. There are also Defaults folders that allow you to customize how Live responds to various user actions such as sample dropping and slicing. (Please note that slicing is not available in Live LE. ) The Default Presets folders in Live's Library. CHAPTER 15. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 197 To save the current settings of a device as a default preset, open the (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) context menu on the device's header and select Save as Default Preset. This works for all of Live's instruments, MIDI effects and audio effects (including the various types of Racks). If you have already saved a default preset for a particular device, Live will ask you before overwriting it. To specify how Live behaves when dragging a sample to a Drum Rack or the Track View of a MIDI track: Create an empty Simpler Adjust the parameters as you like Drag the edited device to the On Drum Rack or On Track View folder, which can be found at Library/Defaults/Dropping Samples 15. 2 Using Plug-Ins The collection of devices that you can use in Live can be extended with plug-ins. [. . . ] 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 U Macintosh U Ctrl Drag Alt Drag Double-Click Ctrl Ctrl F Drag Drag Double-Click Alt F CHAPTER 26. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 349 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. LIVE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 350 26. 18 Working with Sets and the Program Windows Macintosh N O W S S Q H Ctrl Ctrl R E R E S New Live Set Open Live Set Close Live Set Save Live Set Save Live Set As. . . [. . . ]