18 Game-Changing Ableton Live Drum Rack Tips
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Discover groundbreaking methods to enhance your Ableton drum rack workflow, create unique sounds, and breathe life into your rhythm sections. From powerful layering techniques to designing custom macros, these tips will redefine the way you approach drum programming.
Whether you're a seasoned producer or just starting your music-making journey, our comprehensive drum rack guide will equip you with the essential tools and techniques to take your beats to the next level.
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In this tutorial, we cover…
00:00 - Ableton Live Drum Rack
00:12 - Drum Rack basics
00:56 - 1. Send & Return (normal AND global)
02:42 - 2. Layering Samples
05:35 - 3. Timing shifting
06:22 - 4. Drum Grouping
07:50 - 5. Sample Randomisation
09:27 - 6. Panning Randomisation
10:00 - 7. Copy Value to Siblings
10:43 - 8. Octave Layering
11:58 - 9. Choke Groups
13:51 - 10. Drum tuning
14:52 - 11. Pitch-bending
16:17 - 12. Presets and defaults
17:50 - 13. Pad hot-swap
18:39 - 14. Simpler hot-swap
19:25 - 15. Macro hot-swap
20:52 - 16. Other sounds!
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There are some great tips there Will, but then every video you upload is just so enlightening. For me the drum tuning tip is the one I am most fascinated about. I can spend ages tuning a kick to a bass (especially when remixing). I wondered if there was a way to automate the tuning of the kick so it recognises the bass either within the drum rack or by way of an m4l device? I realise it must be impossible (ish) with audio though.? ALSO, with the tips you've shown regarding drum rack, it's making me wonder if I wasted money on AD2 (especially when using a launchpad)
Came here specifically to add FX to a rack, first thing on vid, Got it in 1:40 seconds! The one time looking something up actually ended quickly. TY TY TY! You got a sub!
macro drum rack automation thingie.. noice!
separate question - I have been using OBS and Reaper VST plug in - but having trouble with a particular track that has a heavy Saw Serum effect (drum and bass) any tips on how to make it work? or is it simply buggy and don't bother?
what do you use to screen record (for PC with Ableton?) cheers
I was looking for a generative hobby during COVID and chose ableton. I stuck with it and have now learned so much, especially from your videos. You are the best wingman I could ask for in my favorite pastime! Thank you a thousand times and stay awesome ❤️
You're welcome, I am glad you found my videos helpful! 🙌🏻
Thanks for taking the time to post. Some great tips that I have learned in the past but this video was a fantastic reminder.
Stoked to hear that! 🙂
Great summary video again. I love your summary videos Will. its like watching 20 videos in one video. great job . Its good to know what drum rack is capable of eventhoug I wouldnt use many of these tricks. I dont like over complicating it by assigning multiple samples on one midi signal or randomizing or chocking inside in the drum rack. just my personal choice. But I see how powerful drumrack is you can build the entire track inside of drum rack 😁 But macro sample selector is the most useful tip here actually. Thank you for uploading. you are a great teacher Will. I appreciate you.
You are very welcome indeed, and thank you for your kind words! Glad you found it helpful :)
wow - deepest dive into drum racks I have ever seen. Loads of great tips! loved the arp randomisation tip.
Cheers, I am really glad you liked it :) Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
Great deep dive into the capabilities of the drum rack. 🙌 Nice one Will🎉
Cheers, Sanj, I am glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks as usual for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Some gold in this video once again! I use Live Lite, so drum racks are essential to get more “tracks” into a session, with all the benefits of grouping and having more send/return auxiliaries available. It’s time consuming, but it’s my “ghetto style” and I make it work.
Restrictions actually help creativity! Infinite options usually kills it
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It really helped.
So useful and some i didn't knew it was possible and i always looking for panning randomness, thanks for the great tutorial
Glad you liked it!
this is immensely next-level, love the detailed explanations you always give!
Thank you so much, I am really glad you liked it! 🙂
Which one was your favourite?
@EDMTips the two ways detailed explanations on send/receive channels in the drum rack and the why was my favorite but out of 18 I only knew like 1 (new to ableton this year, watched you before but FL for 3 years) and every tip here will be so helpful!
Looking forward to this video. Great idea for a tutorial. Thank you, Will.
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for this. My fave is the #5, Sample Randomisation. That is a very cool trick.
Cheers, Andy, I am glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻
Awesome so helpful and clear to follow, great jobs ,thanks for the work amen brother
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and supporting :)
Just learnt that you can group up chains within a drum rack
I used to load multiple drum racks with each being a specific type of drum hit (kicks, snares, hihats...) to be processed together
Now I can finally keep only one drum rack for each track
Very informative video as always. Thank you Will you've always been a great teacher!
Cheers, I am glad you found this helpful! 🙌🏻
Thank you as always for watching and supporting the channel! 🙂
you are a hero. Thank you so so so much
The hero we need but we don't deserve😊
Thank you, Tom, really appreciate the kind words of support!
Excelentes trucos amigo gracias saludos desde México 🇲🇽❤️
Excellent tips thank you! I loved the macro sample chooser tip best but also drum rack send/return. It's very exciting to learn these techniques.
If you can, please consider mentioning CPU impact or lack thereof for each tip in future!
I'm trying to learn how to best make a very flexible improvisation live set so I want to be able to change a lot of instruments and sounds with hands on controls during the set. I'd love to maximise usable creative options without overloading Ableton.
Glad it was helpful!
And thanks for the suggestion, I will take it into the account :)
I like number 14 and especially number 15, Good job.
Thanks, James, really appreciate the support! 🙂🙌🏻
Great tips ... thank you. Such a good teacher.
You're welcome, glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Great lesson! Thanks a lot 😊
You're welcome! Glad you liked it :)
I’m gonna watch this like 100 times. Such good content 👍🐪
Cheers, I am glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻🙏🏻
youre a legend man, you dont get enough credit
Thank you so much, Jesus, I really appreciate kind words of support! 🙌🏻
Such useful tips
Amazing tut im new to ableton but going to try get these drilled in my head 😂thanks mate your channel is class 👌
Rock on! You're welcome! 🙂
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Golden tutorial. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
Great video!! I loved this a lot tbh
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂🙌🏻
keep pushin bro great job! thx
Cheers, will do! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻
Thanks. that was really helpful.
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻
Really good stuff! 👍👍
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching and supporting 🙌🏻
I subscribed. You are the best. 🎉
Thank you, and welcome aboard!
Thank you so so much!!!
You're welcome! Hope you found it helpful 🙂
Thanks for your advises
You're welcome, glad you found this useful 🙂
You are Amazing Bro ❤
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
I'm actually a bit 🤯 here, so may new things I didn't know that I need to try out right now 😄 Great content!
Awesome! I am glad you found it helpful! :)
Which one was your favourite? :)
@@EDMTips How could I pick just one 😅 Receive and choke midi, Octave layering, and grouping are hot ones 👌🏻
Amazing video! A lot of new info for me after years of using Ableton Live)
Nice! I am glad you found it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Which one was your favourite?
@@EDMTips Routing inside Drum Rack, trigering and choke... these things are absolutely new for me and it`s so cool because I can save more time and CPU resources now
Absolutely! Thank you for letting me know :)
macro hot swap - where have you been all my life?! Great tip, and one not in the manual. Amen, brother
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Glad you found it helpful! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Thank you!
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Hi Will, great video..quick question should all the drums be tuned to the root note of the track?
cheers man!
You're welcome! 🙂
Nice and clear
Appreciate your support!
Thank you
You're welcome, thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
I didn't know that you have a return inside a drumrack !!! mindblowing ! lol
Glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻
thanks a lot super nice video, i wonder if it's possible to set one knob or macro 1 to control a parametter of all the cells in one time for ex set the pitch of all the cells of a drum rack to macro 1 without setting pitch of each cell one by one to macro 1?
Great stuff here.
Appreciate it, Brian, glad you found them helpful! Any point in particular you found useful?
Definitely a handful in there I didnt know. But grouping drums inside of the rack was a total surprise.@@EDMTips
Interessante a dica 15
Sick
Appreciate it! 🙂🙏
Dang I didn't realize you can group cells in a Drum Rack. I had recently been working on a track and thought, "damn, it would be great to be able to process these two sounds, but not the others. Oh well..." Turns out I can haha.
Something new every day! Glad I was able to help here :)
very nice
Really glad you enjoyed it! Any point in particular you found useful?
Will hope your well! Could you please do a full tutorial on the raptur iii by &me , black coffee ? Also how to get that really clean proffesional sound coming from a home studio? Cheers!
Great suggestions, I will add these to my to-do list! :)
Hi. Like many others I struggle to hear in my studio and I have hearing damage on top of it. I find Ozone Tonal Balance control and Span (free) as great visual tools ✌🏼
I loaded multiple instruments into the drum rack. Is that a thing? Makes for really easy laying out of patterns. I love drum rack.
as someone using live lite because im a broke single dad of a disabled boy, drum racks are amazing when i only have 8 tracks!
Totally!
Hi, I'm new. I subscribed to your channel. When you can, could you do a tutorial on how to create hard techno from scratch.
Great suggestion! Any particular artists or tracks you're digging at the moment?
LOVE THIS!!!!!
Cheers, stoked to hear you found this helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙏🏻
Back when I used Ableton 9 and 10, I remember I could simply drag one of those drum kits adg files into the session view, hit play, and it would play that adg pattern exactly as it was made, and I could see the pattern in the drum rack. I also remember I could change the sounds of those patterns in the drum rack, add or remove sounds from it and the pattern would play exactly what I did. Now I can't seem to do this with Ableton 12. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
Thanks - it is a Ableton channel, this one.
It is indeed!
Hi! What if I want to launch those toms in the new group by the same button but consecutively? For instance sound 2 on every even hit and sound 1 on every odd hit on my controller? Maybe the same for 3 sounds, etc. Thanks! : )
How could you replace a wave sound with another one from drumrack ? For example, I have a wave performance of a drummer that only have kick on its track (and snare on another and so on). Instead of translating in midi one by one kick drum, is there a way to kind of "side chain" the input wave signal to trigger a kick in the drumrack ?
🤯🔥
Really glad you enjoyed it! Any point in particular you found useful?
nice
Cheers, glad you liked it! 🙂
is there an easy way to trigger one pad from multiple other pads? as an example you have a kick, snare and hihat on 3 different pads and you want to layer each of these 3 sounds with the another hihat sample on pad4
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Sorry to send before I watched video. Can you do a AC Slater kind of track ? Or maybe you have one. Back to education.
I will add this to my list, thanks for the suggestion and enjoy the tutorial :)
Hello, when i put a deep bass in my drum rack its getting pitcht up and idk what to do. It should be a normal deep bass but like i said when i put it in a drum rack its getting pitcht up direkt and idk how to make it a normal deep bass again. Can someone pls help me?
The only thing I can think is to have it set to "Beats" and not "Textures" or "re-pitch" that;s the only thing I could think of that would do that pitch change. Not sure if it helps with MIDI but I gave it my best shot
that moment when you try to ctrl. Z your video cause you missed out on one because of skipping back to ableton xD
You can also use an instrument rack in a drum rack to layer
Great tip! Love it 👍🏻
Super!! Shall we be friends?
Cheers, I appreciate the support! 🙌🏻
every sound I play is the same volume no matter how soft or hard I play.
It's a lot easier to work with audio clips.
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Hahah, love this one! 😁
Hello, could you tell me how he does this?
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how do you extract acapellas with this quality, is there any program?
You should ask him :)
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If its not analogue, it's anawrong
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That’s amazing! Let’s be friends?
Thank you, glad you liked it! 🙂