Reference Manual

220 Working with Instruments and Effects
This is how you would play live instruments through effects on a track, for example, or use a
MIDI keyboard’s input to play a track’s instrument. Note that you can easily move from this setup
into recording new clips for further use in Live (page 205). If you have alternative monitoring
preferences, please see the Monitoring section (page 172) to learn how to make these set-
tings.
To add another device to the track, simply drag it there or double-click its name to append it to
the device chain. Signals in a device chain always travel from left to right.
You can drop audio effects in at any point in an audio track’s device chain, keeping in mind that
the order of effects determines the resulting sound. The same is true for a MIDI track’s device
chain.
If you drop an instrument into a MIDI track’s device chain, be aware that signals following (to
the right of) the instrument are audio signals, available only to audio effects. Signals preceding
(to the left of) the instrument are MIDI signals, available only to MIDI effects. This means that it’s
possible for a MIDI track’s device chain to hold all three types of devices: first MIDI effects, then
an instrument, and finally audio effects.
A MIDI Track’s Device Chain Can Contain All Three Device Types.
To remove a device from the chain, click on its title bar and press your computer’s [Backspace]
or [Delete] key, or select Delete from the Edit menu. To change the order of devices, drag a de-
vice by its title bar and drop it next to any of the other devices in the Device View. Devices can
be moved to other tracks entirely by dragging them from the Device View into the Session or
Arrangement Views.
Edit menu commands such as cut, copy, paste and duplicate can be used on devices. Pasted
devices are inserted in front of the selected device. You can paste at the end of a device chain