2: Performing with Ableton Live - The Power Of Instrument Racks 

Tom Lonsborough, yes, that's right… I have a feeling that, unless someone comes up with an idea that's so unique and lets the product jump way ahead of the others, some time in the near future almost all DAWs will have the same features, only with minor differences in workflow.

Is there a benefit to having all your midis and vsts in one instrument rack? does it use less CPU power?

Many benefits, the main one I use is one button layering. CPU can be saved by mapping and disabling any instrument(s) not currently in use.

it's exactly what I'm doing!

that's right but I need to launch the whole scene to run it, I mean: if I want another clip from the other scene running it cannot be done... do you know any solution?

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@Gideon Zayn Instablaster :)

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Good to hear - as I said, pretty essential info :)

@Tom Lonsborough This was great. Simple and practical . More of this please!

How do you send midi to other tracks? I found that only some VSTs allow this with the external instrument device (I'm in Windows) and for the rest I use a little max for live to send the MIDI. I'm curious to know other ways!

Do elaborate please

To sidestep doing that, you can route the power button on each instrument to the chain selector macro, such that the instrument will only turn on when selected.

@@dominicklicciardi tried that. Not very helpful for VST’s that need to load to RAM. Like Keyscape or Omnisphere

well sure, but do you have 6 hands? for us humans we have to use racks :p

a couple midi cables and you can play all from one synth using 2 hands...with multiple keyboard splits/layers/arpeggios/sequences....or play them individually as well....6 hands would be nice though :)

Just a generalist metaphoric rant, I bugs me when people are surprised regarding standard features of software or hardware - when it would take 30 minutes to skim all the info on the complete thing.

Tom Lonsborough I admire your attempt at defending such a lame level of user engagement from a key professional, but shambolic ain't cool anymore. I'll repeat, day one RTFM - he has been talking of using Live for 12 months+, I imagine much longer off and on, and I also imagine he knows a few power users personally. And chains aren't a hidden feature, it is one of the key points for using the software, to miss this is to miss the whole f*cking point of the software beyond the grid and elastic audio. And I understand many users are new and need a grounding, and the internet is full of content doing so, and that content is far less clunky than this, informative and goes into detail. I came here as a a person visiting a professional music channel to get cool power tricks and not an introduction to Ableton. Some good videos out there covering this stuff, sadly this isn't one of them. If you think it is then get out your filter bubble as it is holding you down. Sorry guys, but raise the f*cking bar already, this is lame. EDIT: sorry Tom didn't realise that was you, wouldn't have been so straight if I'd known, but glad I didn't know as I think you both need informing straight on this.

John Smith Yes, but Nick is keeping my 13 minutes 27 seconds - I will never get that time back, but I guess he needs it more than me. If the video was entitled 'an Introduction to Instrument Racks' then I wouldn't have watched it, but it is called 'the power of instrument racks', which in the context then that title may be considered click-bait. He also mentioned this in his live stream, how these cool live features blow his tiny mind - I am watching because of that patter.You are all in a mode of defending this lame content for me pointing out it's short falling, rather than attack me maybe explain what is so inspiring regrading this. Is it the clucky production? The weak presentation? The fumbling? The skipped features? Get a grip, it is utterly sh*te click bait, no more and no less - and you only diminish yourself in defending this tripe.

John Smith I'll keep you more than informed, I have a right to call crap out and Nick has a right to take that on the chin. It was never about you, just trying to raise the bar.

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