Why can’t I use and effect send for an instrument in a drum rack?

[adampwsmith]

I want to map a controller to be able to send just specific instruments from a drum rack to an effects return with a delay applied to it. (So, for example,I can send a single snare hit to the delay, or just the hi hat - but under manual control for live dub mixing).

Each instrument in the drum rack has pots to send the output to a return channel, but nothing happens when I change them.

Why does nothing happen and is this the correct way to do this, or am I missing something?

Thanks
APWS

[nednerb]

Hey there,

Check the buttons on the bottom left corner of the Drum Rack to reveal the Returns of the rack.

There is info here which may be useful:
https://www.ableton.com/en/live-manual/ ... drum-racks

[adampwsmith]

I was hoping for something less fiddly.

I will need to set up two sets of effects that do that same thing - one for the drum kit and another set of global return channels for anything else.

I'm also confused as to why there would be a send in the mixer like on every other channel, but that does nothing.

Is this just a poor design decision/bug?

[The Rabbits]

No need to duplicate anything. The Sends you create in the instrument rack can be routed to your existing Return tracks as the manual describes.

[adampwsmith]

Huh. I must have misunderstood something. I'll go back and look again.

Thanks for your help. Really do appreciate it:)