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237 Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
Chapter 18
Instrument, Drum and Effect
Racks
Inside An Audio Effect Rack.
A Rack is a flexible tool for working with effects, plug-ins and instruments in a track’s device
chain. Racks can be used to build complex signal processors, dynamic performance instruments,
stacked synthesizers and more. Yet they also streamline your device chain by bringing together
your most essential controls. While Racks excel at handling multiple devices, they can extend the
abilities of even a single device by defining new control relationships between its parameters.
Racks greatly expand upon the concept of device groups introduced in Live 5. The device
groups of any Live Sets imported from Live 5 are automatically converted to Racks. Note that
these Live Sets, once saved, can no longer be opened in older versions of Live.