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

[pepezabala]

Removing the stop button to keep clips playing, rather than duplicating them.
I actually went back and re-read the manual, and this isn't explained very well, although I Guess I'm still a numpty.

You know when this is really great? When using Live to run sound and music cues for live theater productions. Make as many tracks as the max number of simultaneously playing cues and/or per unique output for a multispeaker setup, whichever's higher. Set the preferences so that when you trigger a scene, the next one gets selected. Any cue that keeps running through the next scene, remove the stop button from that cell just as you would in a music arrangement.

Then sit through the show with blissfully minimalist control requirements. Trigger successive scenes with the Enter key and adjust tracks' relative volumes from your controller.

Compared to multiple CD, MD, cassette decks, this is heaven.

I was just doing the sound for a theater-play, and I had the screen turned off while doing what you say here. Just hitting the same key at the cue-moments in the play.

I actually could just sit there and watch the play, while shooting off scenes ...

really nice

[fatrabbit]

When using the browser to preview sounds, what I often do is use the cursor (arrow) keys to move through all my samples (after selecting one with the mouse). What's great is that hitting both up and down at the same time replays the sample you are currently on, and Escape also stops the currently previewing sample.

[stjohn]

Yes, and you can also have a 1 bar sample have a 16 bar automation, etc.
In the envelopes panel, there's a lit button that says linked.
Hit it and the envelope now becomes unlinked from the clip's size and you can set it to loop over any period of time.

You can even have diferent parameters automated with diferent lenghts on the same clip, have odd lenghts like 5 beats, etc. Think of the possibilities...

thanks

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

Yes, and you can also have a 1 bar sample have a 16 bar automation, etc.
In the envelopes panel, there's a lit button that says linked.
Hit it and the envelope now becomes unlinked from the clip's size and you can set it to loop over any period of time.

You can even have diferent parameters automated with diferent lenghts on the same clip, have odd lenghts like 5 beats, etc. Think of the possibilities...

thanks

Awesome!

[djgroovy]

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

WOW! This one's embarrasing

To create breakpoints on the clip envelopes, I DON'T have to select the pencil tool, draw something and then go back to the select tool. All I ever needed to do was double clicking on the envelope line

Edit: AND double-clicking on the breakpoints to delete them

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

You know that zoom overview thing? I found out just now that instead of clicking and dragging up and down, you can just drag its start and end points, just like you would on loop braces!

[3dot...]

When using the browser to preview sounds, what I often do is use the cursor (arrow) keys to move through all my samples (after selecting one with the mouse). What's great is that hitting both up and down at the same time replays the sample you are currently on, and Escape also stops the currently previewing sample.

Changing Global quantization to 'none' makes a world of difference when previewing...

[tablist56]

this is the best one EVER for me......


pressing the -> arrow when in the sample library to audition a sample while your track is playing. you can adjust the volume of the sample library with the headphone icon on the far right.

it sounds like nothing much but here is where it gets juicy...

the quantising options at the top of live can be synced with the sample library window. therefore set your quantizing value eg 1/16 bar then you can punch out patterns over your track. this is great for just brainstorming.

if you like what you hear then you can drop the sample into sampler and record your pattern


very inspirational!




EDIT: this tip is similar to the one above but you dont need to hit the up/down arrow at the same time as the previous poster said to trigger the sample each time. u just press ->

your better off changing your global quantising value to the correct value so your brainstorming patterns sound more tight.

[3dot...]

z / x to transpose kbd midi...

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

What's kbd midi?

[3dot...]

What's kbd midi?

Ctrl+Shift+K

[dango]

edit: missed it above

[andydes]

Well, this is the best thread I've seen for a while. It should not be allowed to die out.

Here's a couple of mine:

Copying freezed clips to an audio track then unfreezing the orginal. Much easier than recording everything to an audio track and makes transfering everything to one set for playing out a piece of piss. Although it's not a bad idea to put the samples somewhere more sensible afterwards.

When syncing to decks, pressing tap tempo once at the start of the bar when cueing up. Shifts play position without changing tempo. Very handy if it starts to drift. Actually better than the nudge buttons I always used to complain about not having.

[adventurepants_]

Renaming Files:

- If youve got a heap of clips to rename, you can Ctrl-R to rename one, then as long as you just use the cursor or tab keys to move along the clips, you can edit clip names without having to repeatedly doing Ctrl-R.