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I've had Live for a while, but not ultimately put it to a lot of use. Now I'm trying to, and the questions are starting to surface.

An effect I want to use involves switching rapidly between two versions of an instrument, one at its played pitch and one an octave below. The first implementation of that idea was to put two copies in an Instrument Rack (preceding one with a -12 Pitch device), and then automating the volumes of the two devices in the rack to alternate between the two. An LFO would be a great way to do this. But while many devices in Live have their own dedicated LFOs, the Instrument Rack doesn't have one, and I don't see a free-standing LFO device I can use to modulate other parameters.

Am I going to have to automate each and draw in individual points manually? Someone please tell me that's not the solution.

FWIW, I didn't know you could invert macro mappings in the Instrument Rack; I'm reading up on that now.

Territan wrote:and then automating the volumes of the two devices

Take a deeper look at the Chain Select Zones of instrument racks and their crossfade feature (further down in that manual section) may be useful too. You can map the chain selector to a macro and automate that.

Territan wrote:and I don't see a free-standing LFO device I can use to modulate other parameters

There is an M4L Device 26.2.2 LFO in the Suite. No idea if it's available to Standard + M4L users.

[edit]Oh wait, just read your signature "Live7suite". You may want to update your sig or upgrade Live, the LFO came in later.

Territan wrote:Territan wrote:
and I don't see a free-standing LFO device I can use to modulate other parameters
There is an M4L Device 26.2.2 LFO in the Suite. No idea if it's available to Standard + M4L users.

[edit]Oh wait, just read your signature "Live7suite". You may want to update your sig or upgrade Live, the LFO came in later.

Definitely need to ugprade my sig, then; it's the Live 10 Suite that I'm now rocking (back and forth, rhythmically, almost catatonically. There may also be some drool.) I'd forgotten I even had a sig. D'oh.

And yep, there's the M4L LFO, right in the MIDI effects subfolder. It even connects neatly to the now properly mapped macro control—it's amazing what looking at the correct part of the screen can tell me about the software I'm using.