HOW TO CONNECT GUITAR PEDALS IN ABLETON LIVE

Guitar pedals are showing up in electronic-music setups all over the place. While there’s a minimal beauty in the classic computer/controller/interface setup, there’s a glorious mad-scientist kind of excitement to having synths, pedals and cables strewn across the table. It’s all about options. You don’t have to use it all, but it will expand your horizons. It’s also about fashion, as the use of guitar pedals with modular synth rigs is incredibly popular. Additionally, if you’re a guitarist or bassist as well as a producer, you must already have some pedals. So why not double-dip and use them with your synths, too?

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This tutorial applies to any recent version of Ableton Live, although Live 10 gives us the ability to name inputs and outputs – useful if you’re working with complex setups. You