00:00In this video, we will further explore Racks in Live
and take a look at some advanced techniques.
00:08You can nest an instrument into an Instrument
Rack where you can further add instruments
00:13to create a layered sound. All we have to do
is show the chain list with this button
00:19and drag and drop a new
instrument into the rack.
00:26Alternatively, we can call up the Context
menu and choose Create Chain.
00:31We can then drag and drop the new
instrument into our empty chain.
00:37You can map more than one parameter
to any Macro control.
00:40First, I'm going to show my Macro controls
and then click on the map button.
00:45 I'm going to click on the
filter frequency to select it,
00:48and then click the Map button
underneath Macro 1.
00:51You can also map via the context menu.
00:54I'm going to right click on the Time
parameter and also map that to Macro 1.
01:02If I show the browser section of Live's
interface and engage the Map button again,
01:07I can see the mapping browser. Here I can
set the ranges of my mapped parameters.
01:12In this example, I would like the
filter movement to be less extreme.
01:16So I'm going to set its range to begin
at 300 Hz and end at 2000 Hz.
01:21You can also invert the minimum and
maximum values via the Context menu.
01:27In this next example, I have an instrument
rack containing three different instruments.
01:32When I play notes on my MIDI controller,
I would like the lower register to play a bass sound,
01:37the middle register to play a piano instrument
and the upper register to play a bell sound.
01:43The Key button unfolds the Key Zone editor,
01:46allowing me to define a key range for
each chain in my rack using zones.
01:51I can choose which keys are sent to which
chain by dragging the sides of my zones,
01:56and I can fade in and out of my zones
by dragging the small upper handle.
02:05The Vel button - or velocity zone
editor - is similar.
02:08 I can assign chains to different ranges
of note velocity using zones,
02:13which I can either step or fade between.
In this example I will add a noise sample loaded into a simpler.
02:21Let's set up this rack so that I
only hear the noise sample,
02:25if I play notes with a velocity
value of 100 or more.
02:33Clicking on the Chain button opens
the chain select editor.
02:37Let's add a fourth instrument to this
rack and use the chain selector
02:42to fade between our original
three sounds and the new one.
02:47Once again, I can resize the
zones by dragging their sides
02:51and I can fade between
them using the upper handles.
02:56At the top, we can see the chain select
a ruler which allows us to switch between zones.
03:02I can manually move this icon
around or I can map it to a Macro control.
03:15We can increase or decrease the size of
the zone velocity and chain editor interfaces
03:21by calling up the context menu and
choosing between small medium and large.
03:30Once I have finished setting up my rack I
can click the Hide button to save on screen space.
03:37So far, we have been working
with an instrument rack.
03:41The same three options
can be found in MIDI effect racks.
03:47Whereas Audio effect racks
simply include a chain editor.
03:51This is a great way to crossfade between two
very different chains of Audio effects.
04:04You can nest a rack within a rack creating endless
possibilities for sound and instrument design.
04:10In this example, I have nested an instrument
rack inside another instrument rack.
04:16This allows me to use MIDI effects
like Scale before the instruments
04:20and Audio effects like this Hybrid
Reverb after the instruments.
04:29The great thing about this workflow is that I
can now manipulate MIDI effect parameters,
04:34instrument parameters and Audio effect
parameters from the same interface
04:39of 16 Macro controls.
04:41If you take a rack and put it inside
another rack as I have done,
04:45you don't lose your mappings.
Simply map the original Macro controls
04:50to the Macro controls on your new rack.
04:54Finally, we can rename and recolour the
Macro controls by calling up the Context menu.
