Instrument Rack and Macro Automation Weirdness
Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 6:33 am
Hello Community,
I’m working on some backing track for my band and I have been dealing with something weird that I cannot figure out. I’m on Ableton Suite 11 for OSX. In arrangement view I have a midi track. That track contains an Instrument rack. Macro 1 in that rack is my chain selector for the instrument rack. Inside that instrument rack are sub-instrument racks that contain 1 VST and some audio effects. Each sub-rack has the device on mapped to the chain selector value in the parent instrument rack such that only one rack is enabled at a time.
I just added another rack to the parent rack, mapped the selector value and it all works as expected. The issues is when I play that portion of the set, the sub-rack enables for the first bar of the song, then disables automatically, despite the fact that I can see the automation lane for the parent rack and the value is correct. I’ve looked for any other envelopes or automation in that track that may be disabling the instrument rack at that point but there is none. Has anyone ever experienced this? What should I be looking for? Worth noting that I have 4 other songs earlier in this set in arrangement view and they’re all working the same way but I don’t have the issue with them.
Thanks in advance for any insight
I’m working on some backing track for my band and I have been dealing with something weird that I cannot figure out. I’m on Ableton Suite 11 for OSX. In arrangement view I have a midi track. That track contains an Instrument rack. Macro 1 in that rack is my chain selector for the instrument rack. Inside that instrument rack are sub-instrument racks that contain 1 VST and some audio effects. Each sub-rack has the device on mapped to the chain selector value in the parent instrument rack such that only one rack is enabled at a time.
I just added another rack to the parent rack, mapped the selector value and it all works as expected. The issues is when I play that portion of the set, the sub-rack enables for the first bar of the song, then disables automatically, despite the fact that I can see the automation lane for the parent rack and the value is correct. I’ve looked for any other envelopes or automation in that track that may be disabling the instrument rack at that point but there is none. Has anyone ever experienced this? What should I be looking for? Worth noting that I have 4 other songs earlier in this set in arrangement view and they’re all working the same way but I don’t have the issue with them.
Thanks in advance for any insight