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CHAPTER 16. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS 217
for all of Live's instruments, MIDI effects and audio effects (including the various types of
Racks). If you have already saved a default preset for a particular device, Live will ask you
before overwriting it.
To specify how Live behaves when dragging a sample to a Drum Rack or the Track View of
a MIDI track:
 Create an empty Simpler or Sampler
 Adjust the parameters as you like
 Drag the edited device to the On Drum Rack or On Track View folder, which can
be found at Library/Defaults/Dropping Samples
To adjust how Live behaves when slicing an audio le:
 Create an empty Drum Rack
 Add an empty Simpler or Sampler to the Drum Rack to create a single chain
 Add any additional MIDI or Audio Effects to this chain
 Adjust parameters in any of the devices
 Assign Macro Controls to any of the controls in the chain's devices
 Drag the entire Drum Rack to the Library/Defaults/Slicing folder
You can create multiple slicing presets and choose between them in the Slicing Preset
chooser in the slicing dialog.
16.2 Using Plug-Ins
The collection of devices that you can use in Live can be extended with plug-ins. Live
supports Steinberg Media's VST Plug-ins format, as well as the Audio Units (AU) Plug-ins
format (Mac OS X only).
Working with VST and Audio Units Plug-ins is very much like working with Live devices. VST
and AU instruments can only be placed in Live MIDI tracks and, like Live instruments, they
will receive MIDI and output audio signals. Plug-in audio effects can only be placed in audio