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A MIDI Track's Device
Chain Can Contain All
Three Device Types.
To remove a device from the chain, click on its title bar and press your computer's
or
Delete
key, or select Delete from the Edit menu. To change the order of devices, drag a
device by its title bar and drop it next to any of the other devices in the Track View. Devices
can be moved to other tracks entirely by dragging them from the Track View into the Session
or Arrangement Views.
Edit menu commands such as cut, copy, paste and duplicate can be used on devices.
Pasted devices are inserted in front of the selected device. You can paste at the end of
a device chain by clicking in the space after the last device, or by using the
key to
move the selection there. Generally, devices can be placed, reordered and deleted without
interrupting the audio stream.
Device Activator
Switches.
Devices are turned on and off using their Activator switches. Turning a device off is like
temporarily deleting it: The signal remains unprocessed, and the device does not consume
CPU cycles. Live devices generally do not load down the CPU unless they are active.
For more information, please refer to the
CPU load section
. The Freeze Track command
discussed there is especially helpful when working with CPU-intensive devices.
