every version i've used freezes up in live mode. Particularly worse with extreme panning and insane sample tampering. Avoid these if you want the live to be reliable. I don't know what you mean with the commands, you can't find the sweep or slide functions?
And you probably haven't posted this in the right place my friend.

Stating the obvious: In live mode you press start to play/cue a phrase in a channel and sel+start to stop a channel.
And sel+left (a couple of times in newer versoins I think) to exit live mode, after which you can press start once to stop playback.

I'll give it a try, thanks guys.

Email Johan. I think he'd need to know if he doesn't already.

Try letting go of Select and any other buttons, then pushing Select + Left again, and see if that gets you out of Live mode.

My LSDJ seems to get stuck in live mode and won't stop playing the song until I turn it off and on again. Is this a glitch or is there something about live mode that I don't understand? I can't seem to get back to the S on the little map menu. It disappears and only the L is there.

Thanks!