CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS
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MIDI and Audio Track
Arm Buttons
This is how you would play live instruments through effects on a track, for example, or use
a MIDI keyboard's input to play a track's instrument. Note that you can easily move from
this setup into
recording new clips
for further use in Live. If you have alternative monitoring
preferences, please see the
Monitoring section
to learn how to make these settings.
To add another device to the track, simply drag it there or double-click its name to append
it to the device chain. Signals in a device chain always travel from left to right.
You can drop audio effects in at any point in an audio track's device chain, keeping in mind
that the order of effects determines the resulting sound. The same is true for a MIDI track's
device chain.
If you drop an
instrument
into a MIDI track's device chain, be aware that signals following
(to the right of) the instrument are
audio
signals, available only to audio effects. Signals
preceding (to the left of) the instrument are
MIDI
signals, available only to MIDI effects. This
means that it's possible for a MIDI track's device chain to hold all three types of devices: rst
MIDI effects, then an instrument, and nally audio effects.
