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went through this post earlier today, and picked up several juicy titbits. One I didn't notice (i.e. probably missed) but which I remember working out and being glad about was :

Function Keys F1 through F8 mute and unmute their respective tracks. well handy for working out breakdowns etc.

oh yeah and render to disk, alter 'master' option to 'all tracks', and you've streamed each of the tracks of the tune - very handy for passing a tune on for a remix

Both the above posts = tip of the month for me

The "Delete Time" command, illustrated by the two following pics (ctrl/cmnd+shift+del)



ctrl/cmnd+shift+del



I know the pics are different size, but look at the bar numbers at the top.

Then there is also cut time, paste time and duplicate time, which should hopefully be somewhat understandable by now. Go ahead and enjoy yourselves

rydan wrote: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.

Sounds good, but I don't see how to do what you describe. I have a project, saved, with lots of clips. When I open Browser, I don't see how to "open the browser on current project." I don't see my clips....

Ah, OK, I see it. It's a pull-down menu at the top of the browser, where the path is shown .... to the right of the "Cue" button in the browser. Got it. Thanks!

Idonotlikebroccoli wrote:

Airwave wrote:Yesterday I discovered the power of unlinked looping of clip envelopes, which means you can loop your automation independently of what's playing.

L.

I've been using Live for about a week, and I already knew a lot of the tips on this thread because they are in the manual! At lest the Live 6 manual. I recommend going through it with a highlighter. There are lots and lots of shortcuts and tricks, so if you highlight them it will be easier to review them after your first pass.

But I have learned some good stuff on this thread. Thanks!

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


(windows)

You can run ANY program on separate partitions. I have a separate XP partition for my "DAW" (Live, Sonar, etc) which is optimized for audio. (No fancy UI animations, disabled USB power management, etc. There's some articles on optimizing your PC for audio on the web. I have all the audio under on a separate partition so that I can run a normal WinXP installation for my business apps.

When I arm a track for recording because I'm going to recording playback of another clip (resampling) is there some way to make it just record EXACTLY 1 bar (or 2 bars or 4 bars) and then stop recording?

ALSO, is there a way to record clip envelope automation? i.e. instead of using the draw tool, can I twiddle a knob and record, say a clips PAN, as a clip envelope (not as a track envelope in the mixer)...

Best,
Max

whiterabbit wrote:

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


(windows)

You can run ANY program on separate partitions. I have a separate XP partition for my "DAW" (Live, Sonar, etc) which is optimized for audio. (No fancy UI animations, disabled USB power management, etc. There's some articles on optimizing your PC for audio on the web. I have all the audio under on a separate partition so that I can run a normal WinXP installation for my business apps.

no some dont work

yes you can install them on different partitions, but some still need to have registry entries in XP meaning you have to install it again, so it's still using more HD than it needs to

but Live doesnt care, it still runs!

of course some other programs work, but plenty dont

painfully obvious...

click a button/knob on a device to bring up its envelope in the arrangement

peter181 wrote:painfully obvious...

click a button/knob on a device to bring up its envelope in the arrangement

I'm talking about clip envelopes they are differnt that arrangement envelopes right? i.e. you can't "unlink" a track's pan envelopment that was recorded to the arrangement, like you can with a clip's envelope.

forge wrote:

whiterabbit wrote:

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


(windows)

You can run ANY program on separate partitions. I have a separate XP partition for my "DAW" (Live, Sonar, etc) which is optimized for audio. (No fancy UI animations, disabled USB power management, etc. There's some articles on optimizing your PC for audio on the web. I have all the audio under on a separate partition so that I can run a normal WinXP installation for my business apps.

no some dont work

yes you can install them on different partitions, but some still need to have registry entries in XP meaning you have to install it again, so it's still using more HD than it needs to

but Live doesnt care, it still runs!

of course some other programs work, but plenty dont

oh sorry! I see now! I missed that you were talking about the SAME EXE. Interesting. I guess this means you could run it from a thumbdrive on any computer ala the U3 USB spec (like Firefox, Skype, etc).

Actually, seems I can´t run live from both my partitions (running a dualboot windows). I get a different hardware ID, so it just runs in demo mode on one partition, even though it runs fine on the other.

GUY SMILEY wrote:oh yeah and render to disk, alter 'master' option to 'all tracks', and you've streamed each of the tracks of the tune - very handy for passing a tune on for a remix

I discovered this gem a couple of weeks ago. wouldn't even attempt to estimate the hours I have wasted rendering out individual tracks over the last couple of years.........................

rydan wrote:Actually, seems I can´t run live from both my partitions (running a dualboot windows). I get a different hardware ID, so it just runs in demo mode on one partition, even though it runs fine on the other.

hmmm...that's interesting - I guess the installer has to run to authorise it on that partition, then you can uninstall it and it should still work

that's what happened for me

I actually installed it on both machines and the XP partition so I tried uninstalling it and running the one from the other partition and it worked and has done since