
182 Routing and I/O
14.6.2 Making Use of Internal Routing
This section presents several internal routing examples in more detail.
Post-Effects Recording
Let’s say that you are feeding a guitar into Live, building up a song track by track, overlaying
take onto take. It is certainly powerful to have a separate effects chain per track for applying dif-
ferent effects to different takes — after the fact. You might, however, want to run the guitar signal
through effects (a noise gate or an amp model, for instance) before the recording stage, and
record the post-effects signal.
An Example Setup for Post-Effects Recording.
This is easily accomplished by devoting a special audio track for processing and monitoring the
incoming guitar signal. We call this track “Guitar“ and drag the desired effects into its device
chain. We do not record directly into the Guitar track; instead we create a couple more tracks to
use for recording. Those tracks are all set up to receive their input Post FX from the Guitar track.
Note that we could also tap the Guitar track Post Mixer if we wished to record any level or pan-
ning from it.
As for monitoring, we set the Guitar track’s Monitor radio button to In, because we always want
to listen to our guitar through this track, no matter what else is going on in Live. The other tracks’
Monitor radio buttons are set to Off.
Recording MIDI as Audio
When working with MIDI and complex software instruments, it is sometimes more useful to re-
cord the resulting audio than the incoming MIDI. A single MIDI note can prompt, for example,
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