
CHAPTER 17. INSTRUMENT, DRUM AND EFFECT RACKS 223
17.2.1 Pad View
Pad View (As It Appears
in the Full Version of
Live).
The Pad View is unique to Drum Racks and offers an easy way to map and manipulate
samples and devices. Each pad represents one of the 128 available MIDI notes. The pad
overview to the right shifts the set of visible pads up or down in octave increments, either by
dragging the view selector to a new area or by using your computer keyboard's and
keys. Use the
(PC) / (Mac) modier to shift the view by single rows instead.
A Rack's inner structure can sometimes be quite complicated. Pad View can make it much
easier to work by letting you focus on only the top level: the notes and sounds. It's important
to remember that a pad represents a note, rather than a chain. More specically, it represents
all chains, no matter how deep in the Rack, that are able to receive that pad's note. What
you can control with each pad is related to how many chains it represents:
An empty pad shows only the note it will trigger. When you mouse over it, the Status
Bar will display this note, as well as the suggested GM instrument.
A pad that triggers only one chain shows the name of the chain. In this case, the pad
serves as a handy front-end for many controls that are normally accessed deeper in
the Rack, such as mute, solo, preview and Hot-Swap. You can also rename and delete
the chain via the pad.
A pad that triggers multiple chains shows Multi as its name, and its mute, solo and
preview buttons will affect all of its chains. Hot-Swap and renaming are disabled for a
Multi pad, but you can delete all of its chains at once.
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