Last Minute Additions

V 1.03

CPU-Usage: You can activate a visualization for the current CPU usage of Live Act under the Options – common settings menu point. The Live Act title bar then shows the following information:
All: total CPU usage of Live Act (100% is maximum usage which means, that Live Act can’t play videos or Waves correctly any more.
Video: CPU usage for video editing and playback
Sound: CPU usage for Wave playback
Voices: the number of currently played Wave channels including the muted and therefore not audible waves in sync-mode

Due to this information you can easily see if the computer is still capable of playing more waves / videos or if it would be better changing to a different playback mode (22kHz stereo or mono).

Video-BPM: Each video now has a tempo value and therefore synchronizes itself to the current song tempo (similar to waves). This value can be set in the video dialogue. Result: the dancers will move to the rhythm of the Live Act music.

V1.02

Divide Button: Now there is a divide button in the video dialogue, you can subdivide videos in equal frame sections (used with the jump into range function). Be aware that only the activated buttons are used.

V1.01

AVI Drag & Drop
Now AVI files can be dragged onto the Video or sample buttons just like Wave files. If an AVI file is dragged onto the first 8 sample buttons it is linked to the first video button or to the second video button if one of the sample buttons 9 – 16 is used. A double click starts video playback directly from the filelist – ideal for previewing!

Video Preview: In the video dialogue AVI files can now be displayed with effects. The last activated video effect from the sample button effect list is used on the playing – especially suitable for choosing from the various video effects.

Sample Release: The release phase of a sample is now calculated with a new highly optimized routine, which causes a absolutely soft and noise free sample outfading.

Looped samples: Samples can now be played with a loop within the sample in tuned mode. This is especially important for creating instruments sounds: the sample can have a attack phase which is only played once and after that the sample enters a loop which is played until playback is stopped.
With this feature MAGIX LiveAct can be used as a perfect software sampler. You can set the option whether the loop information is used or not when loading a sample in the “Options – DirectSound settings” dialogue with the “load wave with loops” option.

V1.00

Sample Dialog - You can choose several methods for synchronizing sample-loops having different speed.
Resampling [Default] - speed-changes results in pitch-changes without loss of quality.
Timestretching - speed-changes without pitch-changes, but with a loss quality on greater changes.
Not of all - useful for samples without a special tempo (drumsamples. FXs ...)
These options can global set in Menu "Options > DirectSound-Settings".

Internal Sample-Resolution-Settings - DirectSound playback-quality will be changed by the following 3 buttons on the left side of every screen:

44 kHz Stereo - recommended for fast computers (Pentium II class) with more than 32 MB RAM
22 kHz Stereo - recommended for standard computers (Pentium 200 class) with at least 32 MB RAM
22 kHz Mono - recommended for slower computers

The recommendations are for playing the LiveAct setups from the delivered CD. 
On slower computers own setups also can created and played with full quality if you dont use all voices and dont exceed the available memory! 

Video Dialog - Additional Bluebox mode "Blue Box 2" for smoother results.

Also new is to activate/ deactivate Start-Frame and End-Frame borders for every sample-button separately.

Startup.MKS - A LiveAct Setup saved with that name inside the programpath will automatic loaded and started next time you start LiveAct. (can be deactivated in Menu Options > Common Settings > Load initial song on startup )

LiveAct.INI - some entries for tuning LiveAct (at one's own risk !)
By the way - deleting the INI-file and restarting LiveAct restores the original settings.
DSBufferSize - the internal buffersize for sampleplayback. Default is a size of 40000 Bytes, higher values increase the playback-security on slower machines, lower values decrease the reaction time to keyboard-inputs or MIDI-Events.

DSSafety - minimum distance between actual playposition and the next possible sound (latency time). 
Shorter times decrease the reaction time to keyboard- and mouse-inputs, but increase the risk of loosing sync  between the samples.