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286 Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
effects. In this case, all MIDI effects have to be at the beginning of the Instrument Rack’s
device chain, followed by an instrument, and then any audio effects.
•Drum Racks (page 294) are similar to Instrument Racks; they can contain instruments as
well as MIDI and audio effects and their devices must be ordered according to the same
signal flow rules. Drum Racks can also contain up to six return chains of audio effects, with
independent send levels for each chain in the main Rack.
There are different ways to create Racks. A new, empty Rack can be created by dragging a
generic Rack preset (“Audio Effect Rack,“ for example) from the browser into a track. Devices
can then be dropped directly into the Rack’s Chain List or Devices view, which are introduced in
the next section.
If a track already has one or more devices that you would like to group into a Rack, then simply
select the title bars of those devices in the Device View, and [right-click](PC) / [CTRL-click](Mac)
on one of the title bars to reveal the Group and Group to Drum Rack commands in the context
menu. Note that if you repeat this command again on the same device, you will create a Rack
within a Rack. You can also group multiple chains within a Rack using the same procedure. Do-
ing this also creates a Rack within a Rack. In the Device View, the contents of Racks are always
contained between end brackets: Just as with punctuation or in mathematics, a Rack within a
Rack will have a pair of brackets within a pair of brackets.
To ungroup devices, dismantling their Racks, select the Rack’s title bar, and then use the Edit
menu or the context menu to access the Ungroup command.
18.3 Looking at Racks
Components of an Effect Rack.
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