Novation SL MkIII, Руководство пользователя

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• The Screen Label
The screen label (highlighted with a red box in the image above) provides a quick overview of which controls current-
ly display across the screens. When a Live device changes, or the parameters of a device are banked through, this
la-bel will update to indicate what you can currently control. (More on viewing and editing Live devices in the Options
section).
• Control Notifications
At the bottom of the notification screen is an area that gives you instant feed-back on the changes you make to certain
parameters. This feedback is a ‘pop-up’ style notification only appears when making changes and disappears again
after a brief time. In the image above, the track containing the instrument ‘TR-909’ has had its input monitoring mode
changed to ‘In’. This notification area will also show volume changes when a fader is moves.
iii. Pads
• Controlling Clips and Scenes (formerly Clip and Scene Launch/Stop)
By default, the SL MkIII’s 8x2 pads represent clips in Ableton Live’s Session View. More specifically, the pads show
which clips - or empty clip slots - are within the selection ring, and therefore which clips you can record, launch or stop.
If a track is armed, available clip slots turn pads red. Press these red pads to begin recording to them. Press them
again to stop clip recording, and start playback.
A clip that has been recorded, and is either ready to launch or playing, will pulse green; a clip that has been record-
ed but is idle will take the colour of its track. In other words, press any coloured pad (assuming it is not bright red) to
launch playback.
[Tip: When the colour of an armed track is red it is naturally hard to differentiate between clip slots available for record-
ing, and al-ready recorded clips since both cases render pads red. In such sit-uations, we recommend looking at your
computer, where Live should resolve any confusion].
Press the play button (green right arrow button) to the right of a pad row to launch a scene (i.e. all clips in the same
row). This play button, as well as avail-able clips, will flash until the scene successfully launches.
To stop a clip on an unarmed track, press the dim (unlit) pad above or below on the same track.
To stop a clip on an armed track, or to stop all clips, first hold the Shift button (upper-left of the controller). This turns
the lower row of pads and the lower scene launch button red. Pressing a red pad will stop the clip on that track, and
pressing the red play button will stop all playing clips (equivalent to how the ‘stop all clips’ button acts in Live).
• Grid
Just above and to the left of the pads lies the Grid button. Pressing Grid chang-es the pads to a ‘drum view’. Also,
notice how the Grid button turns green. This view is ideal for playing Ableton Live’s Drum Racks since it allows you to
use pads to play drums or samples, which some producers find to be more ‘drum-mer-friendly’ than using a keyboard.
The leftmost pad on the bottom row triggers C1. The pad to its right triggers C#2, and so on until you reach the top
row’s rightmost pad, which triggers D#2. To access lower or higher octaves click the green up/down buttons directly
left of the pad area.
With a Drum Rack on a track, pads containing audio samples will appear yellow. The last played pad will be blue. Mut-
ed pads turn orange, while pads in solo mode take on a purple colour. Finally, empty pads will be dark.
Press the Grid button again to return pads to their clip-launch capabilities.