Recording Audio Into Ableton Live Lite 4 - E-Mu 404 Tutorials Manual

Tutorials
Ableton Live Lite 4 for E-MU

3 - Recording Audio into Ableton Live Lite 4

These instructions explain how to record your own audio loops into Ableton Live Lite 4.
Clean the Slate
Choose New Live Set (Ctrl+N) from the Ableton Live Lite 4 File menu.
1.
Setup Ableton Live Lite 4
Click on the Show/Hide In/Out Section button
2.
Output options now appear in the track strips
Set up the 1 Audio Track as shown at right with Ext In, the ASIO input selected and
3.
Monitor On.
You should now see meter activity and hear audio when you feed a signal into
4.
PatchMix DSP. If not, you may have the wrong input channels selected (#2 in the
diagram at right).
If you still don't have audio, verify meter activity on PatchMix DSP and make sure
ASIO Send on PatchMix DSP matches the Ableton Input select. (Ableton inputs are
selected on the Preferences menu. See
page 30.
Ready to Record
Click the Record button to record-enable the track.
5.
The record button and the channel meters turn red.
When you're ready to record, click the circle on the
6.
clip you want to record into. Recording begins
immediately. The circle turns into a green triangle.
To stop recording, press the spacebar, and turn
7.
off the red Record-Enable button.
Set the Monitor to Auto to and click the triangle on
8.
the clip playback the audio you recorded.
If you're not happy with the recording, select the
9.
clip, then hit the Backspace button to dump it.
Double-click on the clip to display the sample
10.
parameters below the mixer.
If you need to edit your loop, Ableton provides a
11.
host of loop editing features. See the pdf manual
and Lessons.
Depending on how accurately you pressed recod
12.
and stop buttons, you might have to trim the start
and end points of the loop with an editor. The Edit
button in the Sample parameters calls the selected
wave editor (normally WaveLab Lite).
When you're finished editing the loop, simply close
13.
(quit) the wave editor and Save selected over
without changing the name when prompted. The
clip will now contain your edited wave.
Continue On
Ableton Live Lite 4 for E-MU is a powerful music creation tool that's really fun to use.
Now that you know how to get audio in and out and how to run Proteus X LE, continue
on by following the excellent hands-on Lessons provided with the Ableton software.
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shown on page
"Setup the Channel Configuration" on
Step 6
Click here
to begin
recording.
Step 5
Record
Enable
35. The Input/
Meter
1. Ext. In
2. Select
input
3. Monitor
On
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