===== Adgracks Sounds and effects ===== **Ableton Device Group** **so, it is a sound or a group of sounds but has no MIDI Clip to play it. This requires an ALC or ALS**   Contains a group of virtual audio devices that can be loaded by Ableton Live, a music production program; may include software instruments or audio effects; provides an easy way to load multiple devices at one time. **It is clear that all instruments in the Rack Instrument are ALG-ur** **It seems like they are rackuri** Creating Racks Four Rack variants cover the range of Live’s devices: Instrument Racks, Drum Racks, Audio Effect Racks and MIDI Effect Racks. Just as with track types, each kind of Rack has rules regarding the devices it contains:   • **//MIDI Effect Racks//** ////contain only MIDI effects, and can only be placed in MIDI tracks. • //Audio Effect Racks// contain only audio effects, and can be placed in audio tracks. They can also be placed in MIDI tracks, as long as they are downstream from an instrument. • **//Instrument Racks//** ////contain instruments, but can additionally contain both MIDI and audio effects. In this case, all MIDI effects have to be at the beginning of the Instrument Rack’s device chain, followed by an instrument, and then any audio effects. • **//Drum Racks//** are similar to Instrument Racks; they can contain instruments as well as MIDI and audio effects and their devices must be ordered according to the same signal ow rules. Drum Racks can also contain up to six //return chains// of audio effects, with independent send levels for each chain in the main Rack. There are different ways to create Racks. A new, empty Rack can be created by dragging a generic Rack preset (//Audio Effect Rack,// for example) from the Device Browser into a track. Devices can then be dropped directly into the Rack’s Chain List or Devices view, which are introduced in the next section. If a track already has one or more devices that you would like to group into a Rack, then simply select the title bars of those devices in the Track View, and (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) on one of the title bars to reveal the //Group// and //Group to Drum Rack// commands in the context menu. Note that if you repeat one of these commands again on the same device, you will create a Rack within a Rack. You can also group multiple //chains// within a Rack using the same procedure. Doing this also creates a Rack within a Rack. In the Track View, the contents of Racks are always contained between end brackets: Just as with punctuation or in mathematics, a Rack within a Rack will have a pair of brackets within a pair of brackets. To ungroup devices, dismantling their Racks, select the //Rack’s// title bar, and then use the Edit menu or the context menu to access the //Ungroup// command.   **//Components of an//** **//Effect Rack.//**\\ {{:ro:audio:daws:ableton:instrumente:effect_rack.jpg|Effect rack}}\\   **//Components of a Drum//** **//Rack.//** {{:ro:audio:daws:ableton:instrumente:drum_rack.jpg|Drum rack|}}\\ 1. Racks have distinct views that can be shown or hidden as needed. Therefore, every Rack has a //view column// on its far left side that holds the corresponding view selectors. The actual view selectors available differ depending on whether an Instrument, Drum or Effect Rack is being used. 2. //Macro Controls// 3. //Chain List.// In Drum Racks, this view can include both drum chains and return chains. 4. //Devices// 5. Racks are also identiable by their round corners, which bracket and enclose their content. When the Devices view is shown, the //end bracket// visually detaches itself to keep the Rack hierarchy clear. 6. //Pad View.// This is unique to Drum Racks. To move, copy or delete an entire Rack at once, simply select it by its title bar (as opposed to the title bars of any devices that it contains). When selected, a Rack can also be renamed by using the Edit menu’s //Rename// command. You can also enter your own info text for a Rack via the Edit Info Text command in the Edit menu or in the Racks’s (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) context menu. When all of a Rack’s views are hidden, its title bar will fold into the view column, making the entire Rack as slim as possible. This has the same effect as choosing Fold from the (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) context menu or double-clicking on the Rack’s title bar. If you would like to locate a particular device in a Rack without searching manually through its entire contents, you will appreciate this navigation shortcut: (PC) / Ctrl (Mac) on the Track View selector, and a hierarchical list of all devices in the track’s device chain will appear. Simply select an entry from the list, and Live will select that device and move it into view for you.\\ \\ \\ \\