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Instrument Racks and Macros

In Ableton Live Instrument Racks are groupings of devices that can be combined to create a "superdevice", and Macros are fader knobs that can be assigned to multiple parameters on any combination of devices hence allowing you to control multiple device parameters from one knob.

Creating racks

To make a new Rack go to the device browser and under the Instruments menu choose Instrument Rack

You can then drop any devices you want to use/combine in the Instrument Rack drop palette.

To see all parameters click the display buttons on the left side of the Instrument Rack.This will open up the Macro window as well as the drop display and the devices you have added so far.

Macro assignments

To assign device parameters to Maco faders/knobs, click Map Mode then click a device parameters you want to assign, then click the Map button on one of the macros. You can then repeat the procedure adding new device parameters to the same (or different) Macro if you like hence the Macro fader/knob will control multiple parameters across different devices.

Beat Detective

Events>Beat Detective

Beat Detective is a tool for manipulating and editing audio material that is rhythmic in nature.

Extracting a tempo map from audio or MIDI material.

Create a digigroove

Conform audio to tempo map

Conform MIDI track to audio

Modes

Bar|Beat Marker Generation

This mode creates bar and beat markers that correlate to the detected transients of an audio or MIDI section. This mode creates a tempo map from the selection and applies it to the session.

Groove Template Extraction

This mode detects the transients and dynamic information of an audio or MIDI region and creates quantization grooves from the information.It then saves this information either the groove clipboard or as a DigiGroove template file to a selected directory.

Region Separation

This mode detects transients in the audio region selection(s) and makes new regions based on the information.

Region Conform (Audio Only)

This mode conforms all separated audio regions within a selection to the current tempo map. It can also conform audio regions to groove templates in addition to standard quantization.

Edit Smoothing (Audio Only)

This mode is used to fill in spaces between audio regions by trimming them and creating optional crossfades.This mode is typically used to smooth edits after using the Region Separation and/or Region Conform modes

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One musical piece has no sound at all. It is called 4 minutes 33 seconds. It was ' written ' by the American composer John Cage in 1954. A pianist sits at the piano and plays nothing for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

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In the1880s Alexander Graham Bell worked on a fibre-optic device called the photophone, but it never became practical.

In the deep ocean . the sperm whale uses sound to stun or kill its prey. Its sends out giant grunts, immensely powerful bursts of sound that can disable nearby fish, squid and other victims.

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The Great Stalacpipe Organ was created by Leland W. Sprinkle (a mathematician and electronic scientist at the Pentagon.)inside the Luray Caverns near Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, USA over three years by finding appropriate stalactites to produce specific notes. Solenoid type rubber-tipped mallets were then wired a to each stalactite that is activated by pressing a corresponding key on the instrument's keyboard.The stalactites are distributed through approximately 3.5 acres of the caverns.