The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Share your favorite Ableton Live tips, tricks, and techniques.
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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by djsynchro » Thu May 28, 2009 1:00 am

Hotkeys to zoom display (Windoze only)
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116119

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by nbinder » Fri May 29, 2009 11:29 am

In Live8 shift+arrow up/down doesn't only transpose notes an octave up/down in clip view, it also works in the pitch plugin!

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by bland_handl » Sat May 30, 2009 3:37 am

nbinder wrote:In Live8 shift+arrow up/down doesn't only transpose notes an octave up/down in clip view, it also works in the pitch plugin!
like it!!

so often it's the little details in Live that I love

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by bosonHavoc » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:25 pm

cut time - ctrl(cmd), shft x
duplicate time - ctrl(cmd), shft d
paste time - ctrl(cmd), shft v
delete time - ctrl(cmd), shft x delete
insert silence - Ctrl(cmd), I

omg love it!! has this been here the whole time or is it just in live 8.. i have no idea but i just discovered it :)

i discovered insert silence then deduced that the others must exist and they do..i bet i gain a couple of weeks of free time over my life span by using these functions :D

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by djgroovy » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:53 pm

bosonHavoc wrote:cut time - ctrl(cmd), shft x
duplicate time - ctrl(cmd), shft d
paste time - ctrl(cmd), shft v
delete time - ctrl(cmd), shft x delete
insert silence - Ctrl(cmd), I

omg love it!! has this been here the whole time or is it just in live 8.. i have no idea but i just discovered it :)

i discovered insert silence the dedunced that the other must exist and the do..
i bet a gain a couple of weeks of free time over my life span by using these functions :D
Yep, been there for a long time, at least since 5 i think.

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by bland_handl » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:44 pm

discovered this a few weeks ago, but it's been giving me smiles throughout this all-day/all-night session today:

select time anywhere (arrangement time, or in a midi clip, or in audio when warping), then double-click the zoom area... zooms to fit selection

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by mr.adl » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:58 pm

bland_handl wrote:discovered this a few weeks ago, but it's been giving me smiles throughout this all-day/all-night session today:

select time anywhere (arrangement time, or in a midi clip, or in audio when warping), then double-click the zoom area... zooms to fit selection
Only in Live 8.
Still pretty handy :D

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Post by nicogrubert » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:05 pm

The Phat Conductor wrote:glitchy cutup vocals the phat way:

1. take the whole vocal take, and load it into sampler. set a ton of different zones with different cue points. try to be as random as possible, like halfway through a word or whatever. keep little clusters where the cue points are close (like different words in a line). you will need about 20-30 of these zones.

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thanks a lot.

what do you mean by "cue points" ?
sorry, I am pretty new to ableton.

could you povide a simple set where you have done these things?

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by eXtr@breiT » Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:33 am

useful ...nice one !

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Re: Re:

Post by feyshay » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:21 pm

nicogrubert wrote:
The Phat Conductor wrote:glitchy cutup vocals the phat way:

1. take the whole vocal take, and load it into sampler. set a ton of different zones with different cue points. try to be as random as possible, like halfway through a word or whatever. keep little clusters where the cue points are close (like different words in a line). you will need about 20-30 of these zones.

d
thanks a lot.

what do you mean by "cue points" ?
sorry, I am pretty new to ableton.

could you povide a simple set where you have done these things?
I think he means the start arrow when looking at the sample within sampler.

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by Tone Deft » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:30 pm

adding this here so I don't forget.

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by spiral » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:26 am

old news to some of you but I just worked this out today
glitchy basslines using launch mode and legato and short duration

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by never » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:31 pm

8O WOW! Thanks a lot for this "small" list of tips!!!!!! You've done a great job! I think most will agree you deserve to have a monument of yourself full size!

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by condra » Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:19 pm

Most of you probably know this one, but I only discovered it recently and it was a major PALM>FOREHEAD moment...

TIP:
Double click on your browser sections to reset them to "all folders closed."

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Re: The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Post by condra » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:10 am

oh yeah and also:

TIP:
To add an effect to an individual cell/chain on a drum rack, you can simply drop the effect from the browser onto the cell itself, rather than at the fiddley end of its device chain.

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