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

peter181 · Post by **peter181** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:23 am

"warping" midi clips by dragging the "orig. bmp" number up or down... I just made my own day.

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:01 am

I think this topic should be sticky

DJLethalRush · Post by **DJLethalRush** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:43 pm

Click on a loop brace then pressing apple-up or apple-down doubles or halves the size of the loop brace. (up and down by themselves hops the brace forward and backward.)

anyone know how to do this with a MIDI controller btw? double/half the size, and move left and right at equal intervals (the way up/down does)?

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:59 am

Selecting an area or sample in arrangement view, and clicking ctrl+l, loops what you selected

DJLethalRush · Post by **DJLethalRush** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:21 pm

I just discovered "Select on Launch" option when rick-clicking on a clip - which means I can disable that - wow!

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:51 pm

DJLethalRush wrote:I just discovered "Select on Launch" option when rick-clicking on a clip - which means I can disable that - wow!

I don't think I quite get it. I right-click a clip, and de-select "Select on Launch", but it still gets played when I launched a scene.

Or is the option supposed to do something else?

DJLethalRush · Post by **DJLethalRush** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:58 pm

Idonotlikebroccoli wrote:
DJLethalRush wrote:I just discovered "Select on Launch" option when rick-clicking on a clip - which means I can disable that - wow!
I don't think I quite get it. I right-click a clip, and de-select "Select on Launch", but it still gets played when I launched a scene.

Or is the option supposed to do something else?

The option disables having the focus in the bottom pane move from whatever it is currently on, to the clip you just launched. I.e. when you launch that clip you just disabled that option in, it will NOT be selected. (thus your bottom pane which displays either a different clip or track plug-ins won't switch.)

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:56 pm

I wish I figured out earlier that ...
the 'missing samples' panel has a hidden field called 'path' which shows where the sample previously lived.

I was forever staring at samples called either 'kick_deep' or alternatively 'Battle' ... what is that ? a drum , a vocal , a synth noise?

right click - show 'path' .. ah. clues

D:/samples/vocals/effects/tv/battle.wav

I only thought of right clicking about a month ago.

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:26 pm

More of a hint than something you missed in the manual... when you've got vocals in arrangement view I find it easier to navigate and arrange (or re-arrange...) if you "title" each section by chopping and re-naming the clip with a section of the lyrics.

Click at the start of the lyric
CMD-E to chop
Click at the end of the lyric
CMD-E to chop
Select the clip section, Rename and Re-colour the section
Name it with the lyrics being sung

I used to title the clips verse, chorus etc. But it gives you more detail to link lyrics to the waveform and the clip section. Also very useful for spoken word recordings.

Good thread! Have fun.

mooncaine · Post by **mooncaine** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:29 am

adventurepants_ wrote: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.

YES!!! THANK YOU!!! That one's gonna make life a little easier.

GUY SMILEY · Post by **GUY SMILEY** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:49 am

Idonotlikebroccoli wrote:
stjohn wrote:
djgroovy wrote: 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!

Now I could have used that a million time if I'd worked it out before. Thank you.

rydan · Post by **rydan** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:57 am

Well one of my favourites...

Create a lot of clips in the session view, save the project, go to arrange wiew, open the browser on current project. There are all your clips, sorted by channel, ready to just drag and drop inte the arrangement.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:15 am

Rydan, you can also select all the clips in Session view, then drag them to the Arrange icon on the upper right side of the screen. As long as you keep the mouse button pressed down, the view will switch to Arrange and you can then release the mouse button and the clips will now be copied to the Arrange view. Very fast

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:18 pm

I just found out you can run the same copy of Live from different boot partitions with XP and vista

(windows)

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:22 pm

forge wrote:I can't believe I only just tested out whether you can run the same copy of Live from different partitions

And you can

(windows)

Doesn't need to be different partitions. I run two of the same instance quite often.

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59419

it's great fun running two instances. Depends on your soundcard drivers how easy it is to do though.