What are send and return tracks?

A return track is a track that contains audio effects, and the output of every track in your project can be sent through it, using send controls. Return tracks are audio-effect-only. You can’t add instruments, MIDI effects or clips to them; they’re designed purely to host and route effects.

How do I send MIDI in Ableton?

Open Live’s Preferences → Link/MIDI. Enable the “Track” switch for the corresponding Output MIDI port to send both MIDI note and MIDI CC data. Note: Not all devices respond to MIDI CC messages. Check the specifications page for your device to see if that is supported.

What does sends only mean in Ableton?

When you create a return track and send the signal to that track you are now parallel processing that signal through both the original track and the send. By selecting send only the track signal will only be fed/output through the return track.

What is send in Ableton?

What are sends and returns? Sends and Returns let you run multiple sounds through the same effect in your mix. No more putting a reverb on every different channel and trying to duplicate the settings knob-by-knob. Each Return channel in your DAW allows you to set up an effect on a separate channel.

What is a send effect?

Send effects are used when you have an original signal that you want to modulate, modify or process in any way without affecting the original signal. You hear this with delays and reverbs; the original audio is there as well as the delayed signal working together to create a nice effect.

Can Ableton link send MIDI?

Live can send MIDI Clock messages to an external MIDI sequencer (or drum machine). After connecting the sequencer to Live and setting it up to receive MIDI sync, turn the device on as a sync destination in Live’s Link/Tempo/MIDI Preferences. Choosing a MIDI Device for Live.

What is an audio send?

A send is a knob or fader within your DAW that allows you to send varying amounts of a regular track’s signal to an aux track. While the terms “aux” and “return” can be used interchangeably within one another, a send is something different. It’s simply a parameter that can be adjusted.