Reference Manual

230 Working with Instruments and Effects

eters, you can create a Rack (page 237) containing the conﬁgured plug-in. Racks can then be

saved to your User Library and loaded into other Sets.

Certain plug-ins do not have their own windows, and instead only show their parameters in

Live’s panel. For these plug-ins, it is not possible to delete parameters when in Conﬁgure Mode

(although they can still be moved and reordered).

There are several ways to add plug-in parameters to Live’s panel without entering Conﬁgure

Mode:

•Adjusting a parameter in the plug-in’s ﬂoating window creates temporary entries for that

parameter in the clip envelope and automation choosers, as well as the choosers in the

panel’s X-Y ﬁeld. These entries are removed when you adjust another parameter. To make

the entry permanent (thus adding it to Live’s panel), either edit the parameter’s automation

or clip envelope, select another parameter in the automation or clip envelope choosers or

select the temporary parameter in one of the X-Y ﬁeld’s choosers.

•When a parameter is changed on a plug-in’s edit window during recording, automation

data is recorded automatically. When recording is stopped, the automated parameters are

automatically added to Live’s panels for any plug-ins that were adjusted.

•When in MIDI, key or Macro mapping mode, adjusting any parameter in the plug-in’s

window will create it in Live’s panel. The new panel entry will be automatically selected,

allowing you to map it immediately.

Once a plug-in is placed in a track and you have (optionally) conﬁgured its parameters in Live’s

panel, you can use it just like a Live device:

•You can map MIDI controller messages to all of the parameters in Live’s panel.

•You can drag or copy the device to different locations in the device chain or to other

tracks, according to the rules of audio effects and instruments.

•You can automate or modulate its continuous parameters with clip envelopes.

•You can use the multiple I/O features of some plug-ins by assigning them as sources or

targets in the routing setup of tracks. See the Routing and I/O chapter (page 171) for

details.

•You can create custom info text for the plug-in.