Operation Manual

CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENT, DRUM AND EFFECT RACKS 211
Pad View excels as a performance interface, particularly when triggered by a hardware
control surface with pads. If your pad controller is one of Ableton's natively supported control
surfaces, simply select it as a control surface in the MIDI/Sync tab of Live's Preferences. From
then on, as long as you have a Drum Rack on a track that's receiving MIDI, your pad controller
will trigger the pads that are visible on your screen. If you scroll the pad overview to show
a different set of pads, your controller will update automatically.
16.3 Mixing With Racks
Any Instrument or Drum Rack that contains more than one chain can be viewed and mixed
alongside the tracks in the Session View's mixer. A track that contains these Racks will have
a button in its title bar, which will fold the Rack's mixer in or out. Likewise, any nested
chains within the Rack will also have this button. This makes it easy to get an overview of
your Rack's hierarchy  or hide it when you just want to work on your mix.