Reference Manual

186 Routing and I/O
played by an instrument that is out of the mix. This can be easily remedied by cutting the clips
from the pad track and pasting them into a third track that can be independently muted (and that
can hold its own MIDI effects). The original pad track now acts as a mere instrument container.
As we are not recording new clips into this track, we can set its Input Type chooser to “No Input,“
which makes its Arm button disappear and helps to avoid confusion when the mixer’s In/Out
section is hidden.
Tapping Individual Outs From an Instrument
Some software instruments, like Live’s Impulse percussion sampler, offer multiple audio outputs
for the signals they produce. By default, Impulse mixes the output of its eight sample slots inter-
nally and delivers the mix at the instrument’s audio out. Any audio effects following Impulse in
the same track process the composite signal. Sometimes it is desirable to take an individual drum
sound out of the mix for individual effects processing and mixing. This is possible because Im-
pulse offers its sample slots as audio sources to other tracks.
Using Impulse’s Individual Outs to Separately Process Sample Slots.
We simply create an audio track and select from its Input Type chooser the track with the Im-
pulse. The Input Channel chooser now offers, in addition to Pre FX, Post FX and Post Mixer,
Impulse’s eight individual outputs, labeled according to the sample used in each slot. Notice that
routing an individual output from Impulse into another track automatically takes this signal out
of Impulse’s own internal mix. This convenience is not standard behavior of most plug-in instru-
ments, however. Soloing a track that taps one of Impulse’s sample slots will still allow you to hear
the output of that slot.