By default, this mode focuses on presets or samples available within the Drums collection. Hot-Swap Mode lets you directly preview and load any sample you would like to add into that slot. Ableton Live has a special browsing mode that you can call up by clicking on the pad you want to add a sound to and pressing on your keyboard: Hot-Swap Mode. C#1 yields a Side Stick suggestion, and so on. Hover over each cell, and you’ll see the lower display bar suggest what kind of sounds go best in that slot – based on GM (General MIDI).
As you add more and more samples, you’re building up your virtual drum machine. With this view, now you can easily see the power of this instrument. That cell also now displays Mute, Play, and Solo buttons letting you silence, preview/play, or isolate that sound within this instance of Drum Rack.
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If you drop an audio file into the first cell, C1, you’ll see Drum Rack open up and display an instance of Simpler (with full Simpler controls) for that sample. Let’s explore what happens when you drop something in there.
Sixteen cells, each with their own assigned MIDI note and hardly any information, other than an instruction to “ Drop an Instrument or Sample Here.” If you scroll up or down with your mouse, you’ll see that you have up to 128 cells to add instruments and samples to. Load it on an empty MIDI slot and you’ll be treated to this very plain view: Drum Rack – Sample Dropĭrum Rack can be forgiven for looking like it doesn’t do much. These beat or groove boxes layer samples with synthesized bits to create an even larger sonic exploratory ground for its users. Drum Rack can best be described as this type of a drum machine. Finally, other drum machines combine both generative ideas. In this case, the drum machine (with a built-in synthesizer) mixes a combination of noise and some other oscillating tone, to create a drum-like sound. On other drum machines, you have a synthesis engine that generates a waveform every time a pad is struck. Stored on some memory chip is a recorded waveform of a live drummer hitting a cymbal, tom, etc. On some drum machines, a sampled sound is pulled up and triggered every time a pad is struck. Of course, the magic is in the processes happening behind this sound. Press a button that says and you’ll hear a cowbell sound. Drum machines operate on the principle that for each drum pad you see, one sound will be heard behind it. To understand Drum Rack, one must remember how drum machines work. Let’s discover what Ableton’s Drum Rack can do. What’s interesting about Drum Rack is that it brings any instrument into the fold. Drum Rack reimagines what a drum machine can actually do, simply by taking what drum machines do best and opening its coffers for these other instruments to exist within it.
Both took the best of classic sampling workstations and presented you two clear instruments that allowed you to treat samples differently within each instrument. Previously I tried to show you how Ableton’s Simpler and Sampler represented two different ideas for one thing: audio sampling. Stay tuned for the next post in the series, where we’ll take you elsewhere, and put those tools into action. Today, we explore another tool, one that ties both Simpler and Sampler into one modern drum machine: Ableton’s Drum Rack. Our goal: to give you the knowledge to understand how this important beat-making tool works. In our previous posts, we took an in-depth look at two of Ableton Live’s most important beat production tools: Simpler and Sampler.
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