If you followed along with yesterday’s tip, you should have a pretty good idea of how Chain Selector is used to switch between chains in a rack. If you play with the zones a little more, you’ll also discover that they can be elongated by dragging the edges. Anywhere the zones overlap, both rack chains […]
PREPARE TO MORPH!
Earlier in the year, I spent a few tips building a Bi-Mode Filter, which is an important part of my performance setup. It’s not my only filter though – the bi mode is only used for tracks which contain beats or entire songs. For tracks which contain vocals or samples, I use a morphing bandpass/highpass […]
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 […]
PUNCH IT!
For a long time, I was largely uninterested in Live’s punch-in/punch-out controls: That’s because I was thinking of punching in the traditional sense, the way I used it in Pro Tools – namely, to replace bits and pieces of a live recording when working with musicians in the studio. That sort of thing isn’t a […]
AUTO PAN: CHOPPER
Live’s Auto Pan device can be used not just for creating stereo effects, but also as a simple mono volume modulator. One use for this is rhythmically chopping up a signal. Try setting up Auto Pan like this: The key aspects of this setup are: Phase is set to 0. At it’s default value of […]
SILENCE BY NUMBERS
Something that’s easy to miss about the Insert Silence command is that it has two modes. If, instead of making a selection in the timeline, you simply click in the arrangement to place the blinking playback cursor, the Insert Silence command looks like this: Invoking the command will bring up a window allowing you to […]
SILENCE!
Today I’ve been working on a new hour-long Hobotech mix, and I’m getting a lot of mileage out of the Insert Silence command, which can be used to give you a chunk of empty space in your arrangement wherever you need it. First, select a clip, or a section of time in the Arrangement view, […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
