User's Manual

274 Working with Instruments and Effects
The parameters that you assign are unique for each instance of a given plug-in in your Set, and
are saved with the Set. If you would like to save a setup using a particular collection of param-
eters, you can create a Rack (page 283) containing the configured plug-in. Racks can then be
saved to your User Library and loaded into other Sets. You can also save a particular parameter
configuration as a default preset (page 267).
Certain plug-ins do not have their own windows, and instead only show their parameters in
Live’s panel. For these plug-ins, it is not possible to delete parameters when in Configure Mode
(although they can still be moved and reordered).
There are several ways to add plug-in parameters to Live’s panel without entering Configure
Mode:
•Adjusting a parameter in the plug-in’s floating window creates temporary entries for that
parameter in the clip envelope and automation choosers, as well as the choosers in the
panel’s X-Y field. These entries are removed when you adjust another parameter. To make
the entry permanent (thus adding it to Live’s panel), either edit the parameter’s automation
or clip envelope, select another parameter in the automation or clip envelope choosers or
select the temporary parameter in one of the X-Y field’s choosers.
•When a parameter is changed on a plug-in’s floating window during recording, automa-
tion data is recorded automatically. When recording is stopped, the automated param-
eters are automatically added to Live’s panels for any plug-ins that were adjusted.
•When in MIDI, key or Macro mapping mode, adjusting any parameter in the plug-in’s
window will create it in Live’s panel. The new panel entry will be automatically selected,
allowing you to map it immediately.
Once a plug-in is placed in a track and you have (optionally) configured its parameters in Live’s
panel, you can use it just like a Live device:
•You can map MIDI controller messages to all of the parameters in Live’s panel.
•You can drag or copy the device to different locations in the device chain or to other
tracks, according to the rules of audio effects and instruments.
•You can automate or modulate its continuous parameters with clip envelopes.
•You can use the multiple I/O features of some plug-ins by assigning them as sources or
targets in the routing setup of tracks. See the Routing and I/O chapter (page 211) for
details.