selectable chains

Now we'll make the chains "selectable" so we don't have a ridiculous mess of effects playing in parallel. No matter how many chains you've made, Ableton Live is set up to do make much of this process simple & automatic. Just start by opening up the chain select editor & drag the first chain's zone (the blue bar) to the number of total chains you have minus one. Why minus one? Because zero is included in the zone, the chain selector will have one more option then the value set (i.e. if you drag the zone out to 2, this will cover three options - 0, 1, & 2). In my case, since I have 15 chains, I will drag this first one out to 14.

All you need to do now is right click this first blue bar & select distribute ranges equally from the context menu. Et voila, all of the chains now have a unique zone associated with them & the track will only pass audio through them when that particular zone is selected!