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After you have installed the libraries of your choice, you will need to authorize them. Further
details can be found at the
Ableton website
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23.9.2
Using the Orchestral Presets
After installation, the orchestral instruments are accessed through Live's Device Browser, in
exactly the same way as Live's other built-in instruments. You will nd them as categorized
presets within the
Instrument Rack
folder. These instruments are therefore loaded just like
any other device, by dragging a preset from the Browser into an empty MIDI track.
The presets are available in Full and Lite versions, allowing you to choose the right balance
of delity and polyphony for your needs. The Lite versions reduce CPU, RAM and disk
requirements by reducing the number of zones and sample layers used. Both the Full and
Lite presets use 24-bit multisamples. Additionally, you can Hot-Swap between different
quality levels of the same preset and any Macro edits you have already made will be
preserved after the swap.
There are also LE Packs available for each library which contain very ef cient versions of the
instruments suitable for sketching out ideas. The LE instruments are all composed of 16-bit
sample les.
All of the orchestral presets are conveniently mapped to
Macro Controls
for greater expres-
sion.
Each instrument is available in
Solo
and
Section
presets which contain all available articula-
tions. Additionally, each instrument's articulation is available as a separate preset.
In the multi-articulation presets, the various articulations are separated into individual chains
in the Rack. You can switch between them in real time via the Articulation Macro control.
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