RETURN TRACKS IN ABLETON LIVE 10

Return tracks are present in all versions of Live and they’re incredibly useful, so it’s worth paying closer attention to them. It’s also good to appreciate that they can be used for sound design and to host content that you might not expect to go in them. 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. You can apply a common effect across many tracks and if you’re using a very CPU-heavy reverb effect, you don’t need to load 24 of them into your project – just one will do.

You might also know this type of track as an aux (auxiliary) track, and they can also be used to create alternative mixes – for musicians during a live performance, for example. Return tracks are audio-effect-only. You can’t add instruments, MIDI effects or clips to them; they’re designed