Post Mixer lets you use the Split Rack's Chain Activators (speaker icons) to silence the track's input. You can go a step further and record the results of the split on three separate MIDI tracks by setting each track's input to come from either the Post FX or Post Mixer output of the appropriate chain of the MIDI Effect Rack and then routing the track's output to the Drum Rack track.

That also lets you capture the sequencer's output on the MIDI Effect Rack track, which is useful when the output contains random elements.

Sequencers that contain their own instruments or that are AU or VST plug-ins usually must occupy their own instrument track and be routed to the MIDI Effect Rack track. If you're using a MIDI sequencer, you can sometimes insert it before the MIDI Effect Rack. Insert the MIDI Effect Rack before the Drum Rack on the Drum Rack track and play the drum clips on that track. The last step is to add a MIDI Pitch effect to one of the single-note chains to transpose its output to the alternate drum pad (G#2/alternate kick drum in Live's Beat Tools Digi Kit used in this example.) This setup works with any MIDI clip as well as with MIDI step sequencers. Don't overlap the Velocity zones unless you want some notes to play both pads, and don't leave a gap between them unless you want some notes to play neither. The velocity ranges of these zones depend on where you want the split. The next step is to use the Velocity zones in the two single-note Rack Chains to separate the high- and low-velocity notes. If the note lane you're splitting corresponds to the highest or lowest pad used in the Drum Rack, one additional chain will cover the rest otherwise you'll need one for the higher pads and another for the lower pads. You'll also need one or two additional chains to pass the rest of the notes to the Drum Rack. To split a single-note lane, create two chains in a MIDI Effect Rack and set each chain's Key zone to the single note you're splitting (C1/kick drum in this example). The simplest way to do that is to use a Live MIDI Effect Rack's Velocity zones, as shown in Screen 1. You can use velocity to split any note lane in a drum clip between two Drum Rack pads so that low-velocity notes play one pad and high-velocity notes play the other. This bears a passing resemblance to velocity switching in your favourite sampler, but it lets you velocity switch between any number of different instruments of any kind as well as to modulate the switching settings. This month we'll take a look at using velocity in Live to route notes to different instruments. On acoustic instruments, that indeed influences how loud the resulting sound is, but on electronic instruments, coming from a MIDI keyboard or pad, velocity is just a number that you can apply to volume or any other malleable parameter. We tend to associate MIDI velocity with loudness - a measure of how fast your finger or hand is flying when it strikes a keyboard or drum head. We look at how you can use MIDI velocity to manipulate Live and route notes to different instruments. Screen 1: This MIDI Effect Rack uses Velocity and Key zones to reroute incoming C1s (kick) with velocity below 80 to G#2 (alternate kick).

Mapping velocity for sakura synth