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than Master. ) You can also use a Group Track purely as a folder track by rerouting the
outputs of the contained tracks to some other destination.
...and in Arrangement
View.
Once a Group Track has been created, tracks can be dragged into or out of the group.
Deleting a Group Track deletes all of its contents, but a group can be dissolved back into
individual tracks by executing the Edit Menu's Ungroup Tracks command.
Group Tracks in Arrangement View show an overview of the clips in the contained tracks.
In Session View, slots in Group Tracks have launch and stop buttons whenever at least one
clip is available in a given scene. Launching or stopping this button has the same effect
as launching or stopping all contained clips. Likewise, selecting a Group Slot serves as a
shortcut for selecting all of the contained clips.
14.4
Return Tracks and the Master Track
In addition to Group Tracks and tracks that play clips, a Live Set has a
Master track
and up
to twelve
return tracks
; these cannot play clips, but allow for more exible signal processing
and routing.
The return tracks and the Master track occupy the right-hand side of the Session mixer view
and the bottom end of the Arrangement View.
Note that you can hide and show the return tracks using the
Returns
command in the View
menu.
Like the normal clip tracks, the returns and the Master can
host any number of effects
.
However, whereas a clip track's effect processes only the audio within that track, return tracks
can process audio sent to them from numerous tracks.
For example, suppose you want to create rhythmic echoes with a delay effect. If you drag
the effect into a clip track, only clips playing in this track will be echoed. Placing this effect
