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. [. . . ] If you install/de-install a plug-in while the program is running, Live will not detect your changes or implement them in the Plug-In Device Browser until the next time you start the program. Use the Rescan button in the File/Folder Preferences to rescan your plug-ins while Live is running, so that newly installed devices become immediately available in the Plug-In Device Browser. CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 209 You can also rescan if you believe that your plug-in database has somehow become corrupted. Holding down the Alt (PC) / Alt (Mac) modi er while pressing Rescan will delete your plug-in database altogether and run a clean scan of your plug-ins. 16. 2. 1 Plug-Ins in the Track View A VST Plug-In in the Track View. Once a plug-in is dragged from the Browser into a track, it will show up in the Track View. For plug-ins with fewer than 32 modi able parameters, a Live panel will represent all of the parameters as horizontal sliders. Plug-ins that contain more than 32 parameters will open with an empty panel, which you can then con gure to show the parameters you want to access. The plug-in's original interface can be opened in a separate window. The Plug-In Unfold Button. You can view or hide the plug-in's parameters by toggling the title bar. button in the plug-in's The X-Y control eld can be used to control two plug-in parameters at once and is therefore especially well-suited for live control. To assign any two plug-in parameters to the Live panel X-Y eld, use the drop-down menus directly beneath it. CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 210 Showing Plug-In Panels in Separate Windows The Plug-In Edit Button. The Plug-In Edit button opens a oating window that shows the original VST or Audio Units Plug-in panel. 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 (PC) / (Mac) modi er when opening a new plug-in window to down the Ctrl 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. 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. CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 211 Plug-In Con gure Mode The Con gure Button. Con gure Mode allows you to customize Live's panel to show only the plug-in parameters that you need to access. To do this: Enter Con gure Mode by pressing the Con gure button in the device's header. Click on a parameter in the plug-in edit window to add it to Live's panel. (For some plug-ins, it may be necessary to actually change the parameter's value. Additionally, certain plug-ins do not publish all of their parameters to Live. These parameters cannot be added to Live's panel. ) While in Con gure Mode, parameters in Live's panel can be reordered or moved by dragging and dropping them to new locations. Parameters can be deleted by pressing the Delete key. [. . . ] see Live Packs previewing in the Browser . 178 Pan quick-chooser button see quick-chooser in the MIDI Editor . see Live Paste Time command in the Arrangement . 267 quantization INDEX 392 with plug-ins . [. . . ]