68 CHAPTER 2 Basic Sequencing Techniques software synthesizer through Project Add Track Instrument. This action will prompt you with a window in which you can choose a software instrument among all the ones installed and available on your HD. In LP the track assignment is very flexible and therefore each track can be reconfigured to be set as any type of track you want (you could, for example, easily redirect a MIDI track to an instru- ment track) but if you need to create a new one from scratch you can navigate to Track New... and then select "Software Instrument" from the drop-down menu of the New Tracks window. To select the software instrument that you want to assign to the newly created track, click on the I/O section of its channel strip and select the plug-in that you need. The software synthesizer tracks act as additional mixing board channels that receive the input signal not from the sound generator of an external MIDI device but from the virtual output of the inserted software synthesizer. Master track: A master track has the same function as a master fader on a hardware mixing board. It receives the input from all the active tracks (audio, auxiliary, and virtual instrument) in your sequence. It is useful if you want to insert mastering effects on the entire mix, for example, or if you want to gen- erate an overall fade without having to work on the individual channels. All the main sequencers allow you to create one or more master faders in the same way as you create new audio, MIDI, or instrument tracks. 2.6 OrgAnIzIng YOur PrOjeCtS