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allows you to easily integrate external (hardware) synthesizers, ReWire devices and multi-
timbral plug-ins into your projects. It sends MIDI out and returns audio.
The two MIDI To choosers select the output to which the device will send MIDI data. The
top chooser selects either a
physical MIDI port
, a
ReWire slave
destination or a multitimbral
plug-in. If you select a MIDI port (for use with an external synthesizer), the second chooser's
options will be MIDI channel numbers. If you've chosen a ReWire slave such as Reason as
your routing target, the choices will be the speci c devices available in the slave project:
ReWire Options Shown
in the Routing Choosers.
If another track in your set contains a multitimbral plug-in, you can select this track in the
top chooser. In this case, the second chooser allows you to select a speci c MIDI channel
in the plug-in.
The Audio From chooser provides options for returning the audio from the hardware synth,
plug-in, or ReWire device. If you're routing to a hardware synth, use this chooser to select
the ports on your audio interface that are connected to the output of your synth. The
available choices you'll have will depend on the settings in the
Audio Preferences
.
If you're routing to a ReWire slave, the Audio From chooser will list all of the audio channels
available in the slave. Select the audio channel that corresponds to the instrument to which
you are sending MIDI. If you're routing to a multitimbral plug-in on another track in your
Live Set, the Audio From chooser will list the auxiliary outputs in the plug-in. Note that the
main outputs will be heard on the track that contains the instrument.
The Gain knob adjusts the audio level coming back from the sound source. This level should
be set carefully to avoid clipping.
Since external devices can introduce latency that Live cannot automatically detect, you can
manually compensate for any delays by adjusting the Latency slider. The button next to this
