Stuff in Live you wish you figured out a long time ago

[Bierman]

this is such a gragantuan thread this may have been posted already but

command+alt+L = hide/show clip/track view in the bottom of the screen
command+alt+B = hide/show browser

great when youve got a big project and need as much screen real estate as you can get... easily maximise your viewable area quickly

[yosh]

Okay, Here's one I learned, but I've forgotten who can clue me in...

When warping in Live 8, there is a way to add a new warp marker and simultaneously as warp markers at transients both before and after the new marker. I can't remember this trick... Who can help me out?

[Tone Deft]

^ your post doesn't make sense.

to add a warp marker, just click where you want the warp marker's triangle to show up. it's in the manual.

[georgeblunt]

Okay, Here's one I learned, but I've forgotten who can clue me in...

When warping in Live 8, there is a way to add a new warp marker and simultaneously as warp markers at transients both before and after the new marker. I can't remember this trick... Who can help me out?

Hold CTRL while hovering over a transient marker. You'll see two additional grey warp markers at the surrounding transients. By double clicking you can add all three at once.

[hurlingdervish]

Holding down the ALT key when selecting in Arrangement view turns of clip selection.
Very useful, when you want to select/copy parts of clips or move the location marker without expanding the track.

what does that actually mean? i dont get it.

[georgeblunt]

Holding down the ALT key when selecting in Arrangement view turns of clip selection.
Very useful, when you want to select/copy parts of clips or move the location marker without expanding the track.

what does that actually mean? i dont get it.

Usually, when in arrangement view, a click on a collapsed clip selects the clip instead of moving the location marker to that position. The same happens when dragging: instead of selecting parts of the clip, it moves the actual clip.
When you're holding down ALT while clicking it behaves as if you'd clicked on an empty part of the track or the expanded part of the clip, meaning it acutally moves the location marker or selects parts of the track.

Was that clearer?

[hoffman2k]

I'm starting a video series capturing some of the stuff discussed in this thread.
It'll be short videos, so people with short attention spans get something out of video tutorials too

http://www.thecovertoperators.org/Video ... ive-part-1

[bendybones]

Holding down the ALT key when selecting in Arrangement view turns of clip selection.
Very useful, when you want to select/copy parts of clips or move the location marker without expanding the track.

what does that actually mean? i dont get it.

Usually, when in arrangement view, a click on a collapsed clip selects the clip instead of moving the location marker to that position. The same happens when dragging: instead of selecting parts of the clip, it moves the actual clip.
When you're holding down ALT while clicking it behaves as if you'd clicked on an empty part of the track or the expanded part of the clip, meaning it acutally moves the location marker or selects parts of the track.

Was that clearer?

Shift+Alt for me.
OS X
Live 8

[malutki]

holy bumpness!

now to find the time to read & learn all this.....

[silveriofunk]

love this thread!

[ton]

Here another very important one which I just discovered, read 10 times to understand it:

Drag'n'drop equals to Copy'n'paste, especially for midi files.

This has the consequence that you can take any midi file on your harddisk, copy it into the clipboard using any programming language, e.g. AutoHotkey in Windows, and paste it in any clip slot in the session view you want. It means we are not dependent any more on drag'n'drop or mouse use for importing midis into the session view which I was disliking mostly in that area so far.

[pepezabala]

this one is more like "new in live8":

You can cut (ctrl-x) and paste (ctrl-v) multiple scenes across your set.

Great for bigger performing set with multiple songs. I have finally put them into the order that I play them on the gig. so no more scrolling up or down in the set to find the next song.

[paq]

I read this thread the first time. some VERY useful hints, thanks everybody!! here is one it took me a year now to find out:

you can record all the midi created by an arp or the other midi effects to a midi clip. e.g.:

- put an arp and maybe random/velocity/notelength/whatever-u-like to an instrument track.
- make the mappings of the things u want to play around with
- press strg+shift+t to create a new midi track
- set input of this midi track to the arp track
- set both tracks, the arp track an the midi track 'sharp' (the red knob)
- record a clip in the midi track

now the arp is getting input of ur midi keyboard, while all the notes that the arp is making are recorded to the midi clip. u can pick the best parts out of it afterwards.

this also can be very useful for some drum variation. play a simple drum clip and while all notes in this clip are selected, do variations with pressing up/down-arrows, or even left/right arrows, or just create a note in a small moment and delete it again, etc. all the resulting midi (because it would be pretty hard afterwards to find out what exactly have been playing in which order) can be recorded to a new midi track. just put this one to ur drumkit afterwards and u got ur result.

i am sure this will make some people happy .


regards

paq

[malutki]

maybe it is common knowledge already,but

":oops:

I just noticed:
below the overview, but above the arrangement, that little grey area....
move your mouse there, behold the looking glass,
click+hold+drag = zoom zoom zoom!

"

(for arrangement-view srolling/zooming without having to ask for mousewheel implementation8which i'm asking for anyway))

[3dot...]

maybe it is common knowledge already,but

":oops:

I just noticed:
below the overview, but above the arrangement, that little grey area....
move your mouse there, behold the looking glass,
click+hold+drag = zoom zoom zoom!

"

(for arrangement-view srolling/zooming without having to ask for mousewheel implementation8which i'm asking for anyway))

...for real?