Clip Envelopes
Clip envelopes extend Live's "elastic" approach
to audio by allowing you to achieve endless variations of a sample. Every clip in Live
contains independent envelopes enabling you to draw pitch, volume, warping, mixer and
effect parameters. The sample is processed non-destructively and in real-time. Let’s
look at some of the things you can do with clip envelopes:
Draw Melodies and Fix Tuning
Using the clip pitch envelope, you can change the pitch of individual notes in a sample.
The fastest way to do this is by using Live's new Draw Mode. You can also create
smooth pitch glides and fine-tune pitches by moving the envelope’s breakpoints.
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Mute or Attenuate Notes in a Sample
By drawing steps or creating shapes with the volume envelope’s breakpoints, you can
impose an arbitrary volume shape onto the sample as you listen to it.
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Modulate your Sample with Effects
Every effects control can be modulated with clip envelopes. You can, for instance,
modulate filter frequencies, delay times, feedback amounts and wet/dry ratios within the
sample. VST Plug-ins and the mixer's pan and send knobs are under clip envelope control as
well. You can now create hundreds of clips that sound completely different -- all from the
same sample.
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Create Patterns, Fades, LFOs and Step
Sequences
By default, clip envelopes are linked to the sample loop and region lengths. You can,
however, unlink each envelope so that it has its own independent loop and region
lengths. This creates an abundance of exciting creative options: You have a great one-bar
loop, but you need a variation? You can draw an eight-bar volume pattern on top of the
one-bar sample loop. Or how about a filter sweep every fourth bar? No problem!
For a live show, you can pre-program an eight bar fade-out on top of a loop, without
having to create a new sample.
Create step sequencer patterns to repetitively "punch holes" into a long sample,
or use clip envelopes as beat-synchronized LFOs to liven up your samples.
Scramble Beats
With the new sample offset envelope, you can rearrange the beats in a loop by drawing
rather than editing. Wicked and addictive.
MIDI Key Ranges and Velocity
With Live 3, you might find playing a sample across a keyboard range as a revolutionary
thing. In conjunction with Live's beat-synchronized playback and real-time quantization,
the MIDI keyboard becomes a powerful song arrangement aid. Improvise new melodies over
vocal phrases or spoken passages or play variations of an instrumental solo on the fly--
and capture it all in the Arrangement for further editing. With MIDI key ranges, velocity
sensitivity, clip envelopes and the new Legato Mode, Live 3 has become even more of
a musical instrument.
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Consolidate
Live 3 also has a new Consolidate command which
turns each track within a selected time range of the Arrangement into a new clip, ready to
be looped or dragged into the Session View for instant use.
New Effects
- Resonators: Five parallel resonators that change
the tonal character of the input source. You can produce sounds resembling anything from
plucked strings to vocoder-like effects.
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Compressor II: Frequency-selective compression using
a sidechain EQ, variable look-ahead times, and Peak and RMS tracking for a wide range of
dynamic processing applications including limiting and loudness maximization.
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EQ Three: Three band
DJ-style analog emulation EQ with 48 dB of filter band separation.
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Utility: Gain, stereo
width and phase control.
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Editing
- New Insert Captured Scene command captures all
running clips as a new Session View scene.
- Session View clips keep playing when dragged to other clip
slots.
Quantization / Grid
- The Quantization menus now include triplet note values.
- The global Quantization setting includes values greater
than one bar.
VST Plug-Ins
- View multiple VST Plug-in editor windows.
- New VST Plug-in program and bank handling.
- Mach-O VST Plug-in support for Mac OS X.
Recording
- Automatic handling of audio input monitoring.
- Automatic thinning of recorded automation data.
Clip Settings
- Clips can individually be set to play from RAM instead of
from disk.
- Dropping a sample from the File Browsers onto the Clip
View replaces the clip's sample while retaining all other clip settings.
- Increased ranges for clip volume and transposition.
- All clip Launch Modes are now available for the computer
keyboard.
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