CHAPTER 17. INSTRUMENT, DRUM AND EFFECT RACKS
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Using Effects on Slices
Because each slice lives in its own chain in the Drum Rack, you can easily process individual
slices with their own audio effects. To process several slices with the same set of effects,
multi-select their chains in the Drum Rack's chain list and press
Ctrl
-G to group them to
their own nested Rack. Then insert the effects after this new sub-Rack.
For even more creative possibilities, try inserting
MIDI effects
before the Drum Rack. The
Arpeggiator and Random devices can yield particularly interesting results.
Slicing is most commonly applied to drum loops, but there's no reason to stop there.
Experiment with slicing audio from different sources, such as voices and ambient textures.
The same sorts of resequencing and reprocessing operations can be applied to anything
you slice
sometimes with unexpected results.
17.7
Using the Macro Controls
Making Macro Control
Assignments in Map
Mode.
With the potential for developing complex device chains, Macro Controls keep things man-
ageable by taking over the most essential parameters of a Rack (as determined by you, of
course). Once you have set up your ideal mapping, the rest of the Rack can be hidden away.
The Macro Control view's dedicated
Map Mode
button opens the door to this behavior.
Enabling Macro Map Mode causes three things to happen:
All mappable parameters from a Rack's devices will appear with a colored overlay;
