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Instrument device specifics
The following additional methods can be used for creating Instrument devices:
D Click the “Create Instrument...” button on the “Device Palette” tab in the Tool Window, or select “Create Instru-
ment...” from the Create menu.
This will bring up the Patch Browser from which you can choose an Instrument patch to load in its corresponding
device - see “Create Instrument/Create Effect”.
! You can only create Instrument devices using the “Create Instrument...” button - not mixers or effects devices.
• If you have created an Instrument device, a new sequencer track will be automatically created. Also, a new (or
unused) Mix Channel device will be connected to the Instrument device. The Mix Channel device’s channel
strip will appear in the Main Mixer.
The track, the Mix Channel device and its channel strip will be given the same name as the created Instrument de-
vice. Master Keyboard Input will also automatically be set to the new track, allowing you to immediately play the
created Instrument device via MIDI (see “Master Keyboard Input”). By default, the Instrument device and Mix Chan-
nel device will be treated as a “Device Group” from here on (see “About Device Groups”).
! By default, the automatic creation of a sequencer track and Mix Channel device only applies to instrument de-
vices, not to mixers or effect devices.
• If you hold down [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) when you create an Instrument device (except when you drag and
drop from the Tool Window), a sequencer track will not be created.
• If you hold down [Shift] when you create an Instrument device, there will be no automatic routing or connec-
tions made.
Audio Track device specifics
The following additional methods can be used for creating Audio Track devices:
D Click the “Create Audio Track...” button on the “Device Palette” tab in the Tool Window, or select “Create Au-
dio Track” from the Create menu.
This will create an Audio Track device (with its corresponding channel strip in the Main Mixer) and a sequencer
track.
Mix Channel device specifics
• If you hold down [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) when you create a Mix Channel device (except when you drag and
drop from the Tool Window), a sequencer track will be created for the device.
Effect devices specifics
The following additional method can be used for creating Effects devices:
D Select “Create Effect...” from the Create menu.
This will bring up the Patch Browser from which you can choose an FX Combinator patch to load in a Combinator
device - see “Create Instrument/Create Effect”.
The results when creating Effect devices depend on the following criteria:
• If an Audio Track (device or channel strip), or a Mix Channel (device or channel strip), was selected when you
created an effect, the effect device will be added and connected as an insert effect, inside the Insert FX con-
tainer for that Audio Track or Mix Channel device.
• If an Instrument device was selected when you created an effect device, the effect device will be added and
connected as an “insert effect”, after the Instrument device.
• If a Mixer 14:2 or Line Mixer 6:2 was selected when you created an effect, the effect device will be added and
connected as a Send Effect, on the first available Send FX connectors of the mixer device.