Drum racks in Ableton Live

Drum racks in Ableton Live


 Building a drum rack in Ableton is fairly straight forward. Just drag a drum rack onto a MIDI track and load it with a Simpler/Sampler on the first drum spot. Assign the most common controls to a Macro. I did Frequency, Resolution, Attack, Sustain and Volume for instance. Then command D the simpler in the chain section of the drum rack for as many drums as you want, say 32 spots. Now load the sample you want for each spot onto that spots simpler/sampler window. Voila. A drum rack. Use found sounds as your samples and manipulate them to your heart's content.
Location: Banyule VIC 3084, Australia

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sirintip discusses starting with data.

Image
  In this video from Ableton's One Thing series, Sirintip discusses how she uses data as a starting point for her compositions. She uses a web app called TwoTone by Sonify which has unfortunately disappeared from the web. Only the remnants of its data trail remain. Great idea. It is available on GitHub but the programming is a bit beyond me.
Read more

El Choop discusses gated noise

Image
  This is another One Thing video from Ableton, in which El Choop discusses how he adds interest to his music using gated noise. He takes you through the process but I haven't had a chance too try it out though. Sounds great.
Read more