User manual ABLETON LIVE 5

[. . . ] 1 Live Version 5. 2 for Windows and Mac OS Created by Bernd Roggendorf, Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke, awi, Reiner Rudolph, Stefan Haller, Torsten Slama, Eduard Mueller, Stefan Franke, Frank Hoffmann, Andreas Zapf, HansThomas Mueller, Henrik Hahn, Ralf Suckow, Gregor Klinke, Matthias Mayrock, Friedemann Schautz, Ingo Koehne. Reference Manual by Rose Knudsen, Gerhard Behles, Jakob Rang, Robert Henke, Torsten Slama. Loops and samples provided by Big Fish Audio. Web: www. big shaudio. com E-mail: info@big shaudio. com Address: 11003 Penrose Street, Suite C, Los Angeles, CA 91352 Copyright 2006 Ableton AG. [. . . ] If the Multiple Plug-In Windows option in the Plug-In Preferences is activated, you can open any number of plug-in windows at once. Even with this option off, you can hold down the Ctrl (PC) / (Mac) modi er when opening a new plug-in window to keep the previous window(s) from closing. Using the Auto-Hide Plug-In Windows preference, you can choose to have Live display only those plug-in windows belonging to the track that is currently selected. P (PC) You can use the View menu's Show/Hide Plug-In Windows command or the Ctrl P (Mac) shortcut to hide and show your open plug-in windows. Notice that the / name of the track to which the plug-in belongs is displayed in the title bar of the plug-in editor window. Macintosh only: The oating VST Plug-in editor windows do not receive computer key strokes. If it is necessary to type into the plug-in window, for instance for entering a serial number or unlock code, hold down while clicking the Plug-In Edit button. The editor window will then appear as a normal application window, rather than as a oating window, and receive your typing. Note that this functionality is intended only as a workaround for a plug-in limitation. We recommend closing the window after you have nished typing, then reopening it normally before working with the plug-in parameters. 15. 3. VST PLUG-INS 206 15. 2. 3 Plug-In Performance Options The Plug-In Preferences contain a Performance setting for balancing plug-in latency and performance. Here, you can set the number of samples processed at any one time by the plug-in. Higher settings may result in a noticeable performance increase but will also result in higher latencies. With the As Audio Buffer setting selected, the plug-in will calculate the exact number of samples per millisecond as the computer's sound card. This setting usually means that very few dropouts or performance problems will occur, especially with DSP cards. The size of the computer's sound card buffer (i. e. , the number of samples it calculates per millisecond) can be set using the Audio Preferences Buffer Size setting. 15. 3 15. 3. 1 VST Plug-Ins The VST Plug-In Folder When you start Live for the rst time, you will need to activate your VST Plug-in sources before working with VST Plug-ins. Depending on your computer platform, you may also have to tell Live about the location of the VST Plug-in folder containing the devices you want to use. In order to set up your VST sources, press the Activate button in the Plug-In Device Browser, or go to the Plug-In Preferences via the Options menu (or the Live menu in Mac OS X). There you will nd the Active Sources section. 15. 3. VST PLUG-INS 207 Setting up VST Plug-In Sources for Windows. For Windows, proceed as follows: 1. Use the VST Plug-In Custom Folder entry to tell Live about the location of your VST Plug-ins: Click the Browse button to open a folder-search dialog for locating and selecting the appropriate folder. 2. Once you have selected a VST Custom Folder and Live has scanned it, the path will be displayed. Note that, on Windows, Live may have found a path in the registry without the need for browsing. 3. Make sure that the Use VST Plug-In Custom Folder option is set to On, so that your selected folder is an active source for VST Plug-ins in Live. [. . . ] see automation, see clip envelopes Envelopes box . . 131 INDEX Loop/Warp Short Samples preference . see Mackie Control MIDI controllers/messages . see routing 366 MIDI Map Mode switch . [. . . ]