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. [. . . ] Changing parameters on the oating window has the same effect as changing them in the Live panel, and vice versa. There are a few important Plug-In Preference settings for working with plug-in edit windows: If activated, the Auto-Open Plug-In Windows Preference assures that plug-in edit windows open automatically when plug-ins are loaded into tracks from the Browser. 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. CHAPTER 15. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 201 Alt P You can use the View menu's Show/Hide Plug-In Windows command or the Ctrl Alt P (Mac) shortcut to hide and show your open plug-in windows. Notice (PC) / 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 editor windows of some VST Plug-ins do not receive computer key strokes. This is generally an implementation error in the plug-in itself. If it is necessary to type into a 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 the limitations of such plugins. We recommend closing the window after you have nished typing, then reopening it normally before working with the plug-in parameters. 15. 2. 2 Plug-In Performance Options The CPU Preferences contain a Plug-In Buffer Size 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 Buffer Size setting in the Audio Preferences. 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 CHAPTER 15. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 202 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 , (PC) / , Device Browser, or open the File/Folder Preferences by pressing Ctrl (Mac). There you will nd the Active Sources section. 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. [. . . ] see clip envelopes INDEX 362 for clip launching . see quick-chooser buttons Pitch effect . see devices Plug-In Buffer Size preference . see Live Projects Punch-In/Out switches . [. . . ]