Setting up dummy clips

Dummy clips are clips with no actual sound, but their envelope settings control the effects and sounds of other tracks within Live.

Setting up dummy clips for your performance is super simple and allows a lot of creativity and possibilities to manage effect processing.

Let’s say you are singing while you are performing and either for one part of your song or for each song you perform, you want multiple effect parameters to change at the same time. Here, dummy clips can be just what you want to use. Since you only have two hands to control the parameters through a MIDI controller and one mouse to click around with, how many parameters you are able to change at the same time can be limited.

We also learned about Macro Variations within Device Racks, which could be also used for this purpose. However, that is also limiting if you are looking to affect multiple tracks with the effect changes at the same time.

How this is going to work is that we...