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. Essential Instrument Collection created by SONiVOX. Web: www. sonivoxrocks. com Drum samples provided by Big Fish Audio. Copyright 2006 Ableton AG. [. . . ] INSTRUMENT AND EFFECT RACKS 214 a scale of 0-127, similar to the Velocity Zone Editor. Above the value scale, however, you will nd a draggable indicator known as the Chain selector. The chain select zone is a data lter just like the other zones; although all chains in a Rack receive input signals, only those with chain select zones that overlap the current value of the Chain selector can be addressed and thereby produce output. In MIDI Effect Racks, chain select zones lter all incoming MIDI events (such as MIDI CCs), not just notes. Fade ranges attenuate the velocities of notes entering a chain. In Instrument Racks and Audio Effect Racks, which both output audio signals, fade ranges attenuate the volume level at each chain's output. So what happens, then, if the Chain selector is moved outside of the chain select zone where a sound is currently playing?If the zone ends in a fade range, the chain's output volume is attenuated to zero while the Chain selector is outside of the zone. If the zone had no fade range, the output volume is not attenuated, allowing the chain's effects (like long reverb tails or delays) to fade out according to their own settings. Let's consider how we can make use of chain select zones in a performance situation: Making Preset Banks Using Chain Select Using Chain Select Zones to Create Effects Presets. Unlike the other zone types, the default length of a chain select zone is 1, and the default value is 0. From this setup, we can quickly create preset banks using the Chain Select Editor. Again, we will use a Rack with four chains as our starting point. Each of the four chains contain different effects that we would like to be able to switch between. INSTRUMENT AND EFFECT RACKS 215 a hands-on experience, we have MIDI-mapped the Chain selector to an encoder on an external control surface. Let's move the chain select zones of the second and third chains so that each of our zones is occupying its own adjacent value: The rst chain's zone has a value of 0, the second chain's zone has a value of 1, the third has a value of 2, and the fourth has a value of 3. Since each of our chain select zones has a unique value, with no two zones overlapping, we now have a situation where only one chain at a time can ever be equal to the Chain selector value (shown at the top of the editor). Therefore, by moving the Chain selector, we determine which chain can process signals. With our MIDI encoder at hand, we can now ip effortlessly between instrument or effect setups. Crossfading Preset Banks Using Fade Ranges Crossfading Between Effects Presets Using Chain Select Zones. Taking the previous example one step further, we can tweak our chain select zones to produce a smooth transition between our presets. To accomplish this, we will make use of our zones' fade ranges. To create some room for fading, let's extend the length of our zones a bit. Setting the zones as shown maintains four exclusive values for our presets, so that each still has one point where neither of the others are heard. [. . . ] 181 Q quantization command for selected MIDI notes 133 for clip launching . 140 for MIDI notes during recording 185 Quantize menu command . see quick-chooser buttons Parent Folder item . see quick-chooser buttons Pitch effect . [. . . ]