Ableton/Live/UG/25 Racks/02 Creating Racks
- Four kinds of Rack, each with its own rules:
- MIDI Effect Rack — MIDI effects only, on MIDI tracks.
- Audio Effect Rack — audio effects only, on audio tracks or after an instrument on MIDI tracks.
- Instrument Rack — instruments, plus MIDI effects before them and audio effects after.
- Drum Rack — like an Instrument Rack, plus up to six return chains of audio effects with per-chain send levels. See Ableton/Instrument/Drum Rack.
- Create an empty Rack by dragging a generic Rack preset (such as "Audio Effect Rack") from the browser, then drop devices into its Chain List or Devices view.
- To wrap existing devices, select their title bars, right-click and choose Group (
Cmd+G / Ctrl+G) or Group to Drum Rack. Grouping again, or grouping chains, nests a Rack inside a Rack; the Device View shows each level as a pair of brackets. - Ungroup on a Rack's title bar takes it apart.