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instead of using a drum rack, use a midi effect rack

make a chain for each sample, name it and reduce it to the 1 note

right click on the chains and click on show names in key roll or something

now when you fold you will see all the names, no need to put external instruments at all


Thank you ...

As far as i know the external instrument is designed to use with midi hardware stuff, i cannot imagine why you would need it for a vst.

also, per the ableton manual, the external instrument device is to be used any one of three ways: the way you describe (to external midi devices), what I'm ...

As far as i know the external instrument is designed to use with midi hardware stuff, i cannot imagine why you would need it for a vst.

because I want to map the samples on a vst instrument to the keyboard in the midi editor in Live. I have about 25 Kontakt patches that each have about 70 ...

Hey everyone,

I set up a drum rack with over 70 chains, each triggering a separate MIDI note, and each using its own "external instrument" to send that MIDI note to Kontakt (VST), on another track. Now that it is done, I want to save it and be able to call the whole thing up as a preset quickly at ...