Ableton
The basic musical building blocks of Live are called _____. A ____ is a piece of musical material: a melody, a drum pattern, a bassline or a complete song.
Clips
______ allows for the creation of controlled or randomized repetitions of an incoming signal.
Beat Repeat
The speed at which a passage of music is or should be played.
Tempo
To move (a musical note or MIDI signal) to a different place or context.
Transpose
______ host clips and also manage the flow of signals, as well as the creation of new clips through recording. In the Session View, the _____ are laid out in columns, while in the Arrangement View _____ are stacked vertically.
Channels (Tracks)
Devices that receive and deliver audio signals are called _____. _____ are the only type of device that fit in an audio track or a return track.
Audio Effects
The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.
Pitch
The return of a fraction of the output signal from an amplifier, microphone, or other device to the input of the same device; sound distortion produced by this.
Feedback
A track can only play one clip at a time. Therefore, one usually puts clips that should play alternatively in the same Session View column, and spreads out clips that should play together across tracks in rows, or what we call ______.
Scenes
Live’s _____ effect takes the individual MIDI notes from a held chord (or single note), and plays them as a rhythmical pattern. The sequence and speed of the pattern can be controlled by the _____.
Arpeggiator
The interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency.
Octave
The rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light), usually measured per second.
Frequency
A Live Set consists of two environments that can hold clips: The _______ is a real-time-oriented “launching base” for clips.
Session View
This effect assembles a _____, as the name implies, from each incoming note and up to six others of user-defined pitch. The Shift 1-6 knobs allow selecting the pitch of the notes that contribute to the _____.
Chord
Live deals with two types of signals: In the digital world, a _____ signal is a series of numbers that approximates a continuous signal as generated by a microphone or delivered to a loudspeaker.
Audio
The notes of a chord played in succession, either ascending or descending.
Arpeggio
A Live Set consists of two environments that can hold clips: The _______ is a layout of clips along a musical timeline.
Arrangement View
A _____ reduces gain for signals above a user-settable threshold. A _____ reduces the levels of peaks, opening up more headroom and allowing the overall signal level to be turned up. A _____’s two most important parameters are the Threshold and the Ratio.
Compressor
Live deals with two types of signals: A _____ signal is a sequence of commands, such as “now play a C4 at mezzo piano.“ _____ is a symbolic representation of musical material, one that is closer to a written score than to an audio recording. _____ signals are generated by input devices such as _____ or USB keyboards.
MIDI
_____ or “ducking” is a dance music producer’s secret weapon because it can help to ensure that basslines (or even whole mixes) always make room for the kick drum.
Sidechaining