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mono or when the track plays mono samples.

Mono is turned into stereo simply by using the identical signal for left and right channels. When a track is
routed into a mono output, the left and right signals are added together and attenuated by 6 dB to avoid
clipping.

EXTERNAL MIDI IN/ OUT

MIDI from the outside world is routed into Live just like audio. From the Input Type chooser of a MIDI track,
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The Input Channel chooser offers the individual input channels of the selected MIDI port and the merged
signal of all channels, “All Channels.“ As is the case with audio inputs, the Input Channel chooser also has
meters next to every entry to represent activity on the respective input channel. If multiple MIDI tracks are
selected, any changes you make to these choosers will be applied to all selected tracks.

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PLAYING MIDI WITH THE C OMPUTER KEYBO ARD

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the Options menu entry.

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