In yesterday’s tip, I mentioned a situation in which you will need to import a track from one Live Set into another. This is done via the browser. If you locate a Set in the browser, you’ll notice that it can be opened as if it were a folder: Opening a Set reveals all of […]
MASTER OF IMPORTS
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 […]
LOOPIN’ AND PUNCHIN’
As I mentioned yesterday, when working in the arrangement view the loop brace is used to set the boundaries for both looping and punching. For my money, the easiest way to set these boundaries is using the Loop Selection command. First highlight a clip or region of time: Then, from the Edit menu (you’ll definitely […]
ONE BUTTON, STATUS AND CUE
One thing I find is that no matter how big, or how many controllers you have, you’ll always run out of buttons or knobs. Somehow, you always use them all up. To solve this problem, it helps to find simple ways to get multiple uses out of individual controls. I just discovered a very simple […]
SEND TO CUE
From time to time, you may encounter a situation where it’s more practical to cue tracks by using a send instead of Live’s built-in Cue feature. The setup looks like this: In the above example, return track A is set up as a cue track. Check out it’s Audio To routing – anything sent to […]
THE SOUNDS SET
I’ve recently made a new addition to my Sounds Project, and its so simple I can’t believe it took me so long to think of it. The project folder now contains a Sounds Set: Every time I sit down to do some sampling or sound design, I do it in this set. The format of […]
TEMPLATE!
Templates can be a really great tool for speeding your workflow. Personally, I don’t get much mileage out of the production oriented templates that ship with Live: …but I do get great benefit out of working with templates for live performance. As I’m getting ready for the Hobo’s Ball, its really nice to be able […]
UTILITY TEMPLATES
When I’m not using templates to put together a performance, I’m generally using them to import a premade set of tracks into a production Set. For example, when I want to record the output of my Machinedrum, I first locate my Drums set in the Templates folder: …and then drag it into whatever Set I’m […]
COPY TIME
Sometimes when I’m working in the Arrangement view, I wish there was a Copy Time command. I want to be able to click on a clip, then copy everything in that range of time to the clipboard, along the lines of the Duplicate Time and Cut Time commands. Here’s the workaround. First, highlight a clip […]
