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Anna Lakatos
Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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An introduction to Device Racks in Live

By creating Device Racks, you can build your own complex devices that contain effects and instruments.

You can create multilayered instruments, apply signal splitting and parallel processing, to name just a few of the uses of Device Racks.

If you think about it, when you have, for example, a MIDI track, you insert a MIDI effect on it, an instrument, and stack up some audio effects to follow the instrument. You are creating one chain of devices, just like how you would in other DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations).

However, if you are, for example, working on an Instrument Rack, you are able to create multiple device chains playing in parallel, meaning you can have several instruments stacked up on the same track. All these instrument chains can also have their own effect processing, and then the output of all these chains gets summarized as the output of the Instrument Rack.

Drum Racks work a little differently, but we will be having...

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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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