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Chapter 16
Instrument and Effect Racks
A Rack is a exible tool for working with effects, plug-ins and instruments in a track's
device chain. Racks can be used to build complex signal processors, dynamic performance
instruments, stacked synthesizers and more. Yet they also streamline your device chain
by bringing together your most essential controls. While Racks excel at handling multiple
devices, they can extend the abilities of even a single device by dening new control
relationships between its parameters.
Racks greatly expand upon the concept of device groups introduced in Live 5. The device
groups of any Live Sets imported from Live 5 are automatically converted to Racks by Live
LE. Note that these Live Sets, once saved, can no longer be opened in older versions of
Live.
Please note that Racks cannot be edited in Live LE. You can use Racks that have been
created in the full version of Live but you will only be able to access the Macro controls. To
learn more about how Racks work internally, please see the full version manual, which you
can download from the Ableton website
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