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4ace wrote: If i could figure how to post a pic in the forum i'd love to show this because you are effectively creating the same loop length within a larger than needed bracket using different parts of the audio.

OT but do i need a photobucket account to host a pic in the forum??
I'd like to show what i'm describing

Did you know about Skitch, and Skitch.com? Awesome, simple, and lets you post pics there. We've already seen at least one Skitch pic in this thread. It was the one with the cool red arrow. I recognized that arrow.

So that's my cool tip for this thread. It's how/where you can make screenshots of your Live to give us even more cool tips.

I discovered yesterday that all of my midi interfaces in preferences have little arrows to expand the settings

in live's preferences? midi/sync tab????

I don't see those arrows....

they appeared in Live 7

I just wondered - "If I make an audio filter Effect VST, and put it after Sampler will Live route midi notestart data to it?" . I mean - most effects don't really need a note start. But by making a filter with a note started envelope I can add more midi note started filters to Sampler.

so I tried it - and of course it does.

It's a simple enough idea, the VST is just a filter with an envelope. You pop it on the track you want to effect, you set up a separate Midi track and route its midi output to the filter VST.

When a note plays, the effect envelope triggers off the midi note start.
very very useful - yet I have never done it before!

Spiralgroove wrote:shift + spacebar to restart where you stopped

nice one.

evilxsystems wrote:

Herne wrote:Removing the stop button to keep clips playing, rather than duplicating them.
.

along these lines...enabling legato mode for long clips so that when you move between scenes the clips don't restart from the beginning...

Excellent - I've been looking for this for AGES

audiovoid wrote:The most simple of things, I know. And actually dosn't save more than like 1-second of time, but still:

To quickly transfer a clip (or group of clips) from Session View to Arrange view. Click on clip/clips, hold, hit Tab, drop clip/clips. Presto

Not like copy/paste or hitting record is THAT much slower or anything but I still love the way it feels. he he

Nice one.

Command-Shift-Forehead-Pound Fist on keyboard... always fun.

This'll give away how much of a n00b I am, but for me, it was track delay when recording hardware synth output...

Hi, great thread!

Little details that improved my workflow quite well:

When editing a midi clip, either in arrange or session view,

-first clicking on L/R part of the midi-note and holding then use Command(Mac)=
allows to fine tune begin/end of note without snapping to the grid
-first clicking on the midi note itself and holding then use Command(Mac)=
allows to move the note around freely without being snapped on the grid

Both these remove the necessity of swapping between grid/gridless edit

And sorry PC guys, there must be an equivalent to the Command-key on PC,
but I don't know it!, however I am sure it must works as well.

Keep on bringin' those tips !

Best

Biggnikh

Biggnikh wrote:Hi, great thread!

Little details that improved my workflow quite well:

When editing a midi clip, either in arrange or session view,

-first clicking on L/R part of the midi-note and holding then use Command(Mac)=
allows to fine tune begin/end of note without snapping to the grid
-first clicking on the midi note itself and holding then use Command(Mac)=
allows to move the note around freely without being snapped on the grid

Both these remove the necessity of swapping between grid/gridless edit

And sorry PC guys, there must be an equivalent to the Command-key on PC,
but I don't know it!, however I am sure it must works as well.

Keep on bringin' those tips !

Best

Biggnikh

Great, just tried that!

PC user use the Alt -key instead!

I'm amazed this thread still isn't a sticky yet

I was getting annoyed trying to sift through here to find all the tips and shorcuts I can't seem to keep in my head for very long
So I've condensed most of the thread into the list below, give or take a few I either didn't understand or might have missed completely by mistake.

PC users substitute 'COMMAND' with 'CTRL'


Live shortcuts & alternative controls for certain functions.

Duplicate = COMMAND+D.

Disable Grid = COMMAND+4 (or hold COMMAND whilst selecting note or note start/end).

Select Looped = COMMAND+SHIFT+L.

Resize/Move Loop braces = cursor keys or COMMAND+cursor keys.

In arrange view loop selected = COMMAND+L.

In arrange view consolidate multiple selected clips = COMMAND+J.

Playback from current position = SHIFT+SPACEBAR.

Trigger selected clip slot = RETURN.

Switch Clip/Track view = SHIFT+TAB.

Move clip from session to arrange & vica versa = Click and hold on clip then press TAB.

Stop focus moving when triggering clips (all clips) = In prefs > Record/Warp/Launch > Select on Launch > select 'off'.

Stop focus moving when triggering clips (selected clips) = CTRL+Click desired clip > select 'Select on Launch (Pref)'.

Preferences = COMMAND+,.

Adjust all track widths = hold ALT while adjusting.

Record Enable Track = F9.

Slower response while changing track levels = Hold COMMAND while moving fader.

Show hide plugin windows = COMMAND+ALT+P.

Stop browser preview = ESC.

In browser alternate navigation/previewing = left & right cursor keys.

Zoom to loop = Click on the word "length".

Zoom to position = Click on the word "position".

Zoom out 100% = Double click the bottom clip overview tab.

Zoom to specific portion = Use start and end of bottom clip overview like loop braces.

Alternate scrolling in MIDI clips = COMMAND+ALT+Drag.

Show/Hide overview in session view = COMMAND+ALT+O.

Show/Hide Info View = SHIFT+/.

Mute/Unmute tracks 1-8 = F1-F8.

Time compress/expand MIDI notes = right-click with all notes selected then select 'stretch notes'.

Insert silence in arrange view/scene in session view = COMMAND+I.

Drag multiple files to individual tracks = Hold COMMAND whilst dragging files in.

Unfold all arrange tracks = ALT+Click a track arrow icon.

Alternative velocity control in MIDI editor = COMMAND+Click note+drag.

Duplicate note in MIDI editor = ALT+Click note+drag.

Render tracks as individual files = In render dialog change "Master" to "All Tracks".

Assign twice as many qwerty keys to live = SHIFT.

Restrict automation point movement to vertical axis = COMMAND+Drag.

Scroll drum racks 1 row at a time = COMMAND+Drag.

View multiple plugin windows = In prefs > Look/Feel > Auto-Hide Plugin Windows > select 'off'.

Edit info text for tracks and devices to make notes = CTRL+Click > select 'Edit Info Text'.

Create note with draw mode off = Double Click.

Remove stop buttons to avoid clips stopping when changing scenes = Select clip slot > COMMAND+E (or enable 'Legato' launch mode).


General Tips.

*Hidden buttons visible when in midi or key assign mode =
scene up/down (in master track).
per track play button - launches selected clip in track.

*Entering bpm in the scene launch buttons title sets bpm when launched.

*Click the headphone icon in midi editor to enable vertical keyboard to preview related sound.

*While MIDI synced to external machine hosting Live ALT+SPACEBAR on the sync slave causes it to sync to the masters current song position. (remedy for sync drifting without stopping and starting).

*Remember to experiment with the default live rack presets especially the DJ/Performance ones.

*GIGA libraries can be exported to Sampler then deleted (if required), as all samples are copied to the library.

*Mac users check out a free app called Soundsource. It adds an audio prefs selector to the menu-bar.

*OSX Function keys = ALT+F1/F2 opens Display Prefs, ALT+F3/F4/F5 opens Sound Prefs, ALT+F8/F9/F10 opens Keyboard & Mouse Prefs.

*When a new version of Live is released. Open Info Window (SHIFT+/) and hover any new parameters, fields or preferences.

*Multiple tracks can be selected and frozen simultaneously.

*Drag and drop tracks directly from iTunes for DJing.

*Dragging a sample onto a plugin instrument will replace the instrument with an instance of Simpler containing that sample.

Good work, did you autogen-erate all of that? I crack myself all up.

aeon wrote:

dhilsabeck wrote:My Problem: Re-starting a song and having to wait for a long delay from wherever I stopped play to stop decaying.

The Solution: This can be can be remedied by merely turning off the effect that's causing the delay and turning it back on before replaying.

you can also do this by pressing 'stop' twice.

*aeon loves loooooooooong reverbs*

That doesn't work for me, tried master stop, stop all clips and spacebar toggle. Still the tails drag on. Anybody?