Yesterday’s tip covered the basics of importing from one Set to another but there’s a bit more to know if you really want to take full advantage of Live’s import functionality. In addition to tracks, you can also import individual clips from the tracks within a Set, as long as those clips are contained within […]
SAVE A (SUB)SET
Once you know the secrets of Importing from the browser, there are all sorts of interesting things you can do. In particular, you can save Sets that are designed strictly for importing into other Sets. For example, take a scenario such as the one I described in One Song, Multiple Clips. Once I’ve broken down […]
LOOP IT LIVE
If you look at the Clip View for any clip in my current Hobotech set, you’ll see that I have several controls MIDI mapped: The Loop switch is used to enable or disable the clip’s loop points, while the Set buttons are used to set loop points interactively while the clip is playing back. […]
THE BIG NUDGE
Even with my tracks broken down into multiple clips, I still want a bit more flexibility in terms of getting around a clip on the gig. For example, I might want to mix in a song from a position other than the four that I’ve already picked out. This is where the clip nudge controls […]
THE LITTLE NUDGE
Nudging can be done in small values as well – not just by the bar like I mentioned yesterday. The advantage of working with smaller quantize values (try 1/16), is that you can intentionally offset clips from each other by launching them at different points in the bar. If your new to this, its well […]
THE OTHER NUDGE
A number of weeks back, I wrote a couple of tips about using the Clip Nudge controls to navigate within your clips during a gig. (see: The Big Nudge and The Little Nudge) What I didn’t mention is the extra mappable area that appears in between the nudge controls when you’re in the MIDI map (see […]
WHY SCRUB?
In my case, the reason to use the Clip Scrub control as described yesterday is to save space in the Session view. In an earlier tip, I talked about breaking a song into 4 clips to have unique launch points for performance. The problem with having every song broken down into 4 clips is my […]
A FEW GOOD TRACKS
Once I’ve got my basic production done and I’m ready to try out a new beat in a performance situation, I’ll first lay out a basic arrangement. This helps me figure out what I might want to do with the piece. Then I’ll print a few stems from the arrangement. In the following example, I’ve […]
CROP AND COLLECT
A lot of the preparation for my upcoming Austin gig is happening remotely, so there’s a lot of sending files back and forth. In particular, we’re sending Live projects containing audio loops. Sometimes these loops are short and homemade, and sometimes they are loops taken from entire songs. Unfortunately, this remote collaboration sometimes has to […]
WARPING 101: ZOOM RIGHT
OK, this might seem obvious, but if you don’t have mad skills when it comes to zooming in/out of the waveform display (aka the Sample Editor), you’re going to have a hellish time warping audio. I’m making this observation because it’s one of the #1 things I’ve seen slow people down in Intro level classes. We’ve […]
