Hi, everybody. I'm relatively new to Ableton and have been taught all I know by Youtube videos and my own exploration, so I'm pretty inexperienced with the ins and outs. Please excuse my ignorance if this is a silly topic: I recently have been wanting to set up a rig where I can use my live guitar with outside hardware effects like guitar pedals. I have a Scarlett 4i4 and am using the external audio effects feature. I have my instrument plugged into instrument input 1, out line output 3, through my effects pedals, and into line input 3. It works. Sort of. I can hear my guitar with the effects and it sounds great but the effects are also being applied to my midi tracks, even the metronome. Is there a solution for this? It's become very frustrating. I even bought an interface with more than 2 outputs (had a Presonus before this) and nothing has changed. Thanks for your patience with my long winded explanation, hope this isn't a silly question or an impossible endeavor.

Thank you so much for the reply. I have my guitar into input one and am then using "external audio effects" on the same audio track. The idea was to add pre and post amp effects within Ableton to go alongside my pedal if that make sense. Suggesting that I may have main signal going out of 3&4 was helpful but not sure how to remedy that. I know you wouldn't be able to help with that without a 4i4. This should at least get me started.

I really appreciate your help, I'll mess around with it a bit more.