Ableton Live 8 - External Routing - Features

Incorporating some kind of external hardware into a project can lend your tracks a fresh and unique feel. Hollin Jones explores Live’s external routing features.

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Many people run music setups that are entirely ‘in-the-box’, meaning that all their instruments and plugin effects are virtual. This is a good approach in some ways as software occupies no physical space and is portable when installed on a laptop. For others, though, hardware is an important part of their music-making activities. Obviously, microphones, guitars, basses and other sound sources that you connect to an interface to record into your DAW are something of a given, and when we refer to ‘external audio’ in this Workshop we’re not talking about just recording audio in – that’s pretty basic. What we mean is incorporating external devices into Live’s signal chain. There are two methods for doing this: using external effects and MIDI-triggering external kit. Actually, it could be argued that there’s a third way – ReWire – but that involves signals that remain inside the computer.

This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 80
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