Reference Manual

219 Working with Instruments and Effects
17.1 Using the Live Devices
Devices in Live’s Browser.
Live’s built-in devices can be accessed in the browser. You will notice that Live’s Synths, Audio
Effects, and MIDI Effects each have their own labels in the browser’s sidebar.
The easiest way to place a device in a track is to double-click on it in the browser, which creates
a new track to hold the device. Alternatively, select a destination track by clicking within it, then
select a device or preset in the browser and press [Enter] to add it to the selected track.
You can also drag devices into tracks or drop areas in the Session and Arrangement Views, or
into the Device View. Dragging a sample to the Device View of a MIDI track creates a Simpler
instrument with this sample loaded.
Note: If you are using an external input signal to feed your Live track using the default settings,
the track’s Arm button in the mixer must be activated in order to hear the input through the de-
vices in your track’s device chain. On MIDI tracks, this is normally activated automatically when
inserting an instrument.
MIDI and Audio Track Arm Buttons.