Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

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thehunter398
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Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

Post by thehunter398 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:39 am

Is there a way to change the signal flow between chains to serial instead of parellel?

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Re: Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

Post by yur2die4 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:44 am

If you duplicate the rack, then mute (or delete) alternate chains in each rack, they will be in series.

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Re: Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

Post by chrk » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:48 am

From the manual on 18.4 Chain List:
Note: Racks, chains and devices can be freely dragged into and out of other Racks, and even between tracks. Selecting a chain, then dragging and hovering over another Session or Arrangement View track will give that track focus; its Device View will open, allowing you to drop your chain into place.

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Re: Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

Post by yur2die4 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:35 am

They are good for parallel processing but they are also good for macros and tidying things up.

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Re: Signal Flow in the Effect Rack

Post by theophilus » Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:26 pm

i think he was asking if there is a shortcut for it.

there's not AFAIK, but it's pretty easy to drag things around where you want them to be.

occasionally i'd like a shortcut where i can select a few effects, right-click on them and have live create an audio effects rack with the chain duplicated across two chains, or alternatively create an audio effects rack with a dry path and a wet path (latency matched). but it's not much work to do that by hand anyways.

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