#ABLETON LIVE PACKS DRUM LOOPS HOW TO#

Right-click on your loop inside Simpler, select 'Slice to Drum Rack' and, as if by magic, your Simpler has now turned into a Drum Rack instrument, which is essentially a group of Simplers loaded onto separate pads (and triggerable by different MIDI keys). It's important to do this before the next step also. On a real drum kit, you can use both hands and feet to play several drums at once (if you're good!), so it makes sense for us to enable this setting. In Poly mode, Simpler allows us to play more than one sample at a time. We also want to set the Playback mode to 'Poly' as it's set to 'Mono' by default. If you're wanting to chop up a more sustained sound like a synth pad or orchestral texture, you may wish to slice by 'Beat' for example, which would slice the sample based on musical timing divisions. This is usually the most appropriate mode for chopping up drum loops. By default, it will analyse the file and slice according to where it sees an obvious transient. Next, we tell Simpler to slice up our loop by setting the mode to 'Slice'. Once our loop is in Simpler, we can see two flag-like markers on the left and right hand sides - these are adjustable and allow us to specify which part of the loop we want to actually use.ДЄs you can see above, I've moved the right marker towards the left and placed it where the end of the 2nd bar would be - this section contains all the hits that I'd want to work with in a drum kit. Let's now drag our loop into the Simpler and take a look how we do this: So what we should do now is identify the smallest possible section of the whole loop that includes all the hits we want - t here are a number of ways to do this, but one of the great things about the Simpler instrument is that you can edit the loop inside it before you slice. We only really need to extract one slice of each hit. Over the course of the 4 bars, a lot of the same sounds are repeated until the end. Listen carefully for how many different drum hits are in the loop. Let's have a listen to the drum loop we've chosen to chop up - this one comes from our Outrun - Synthwave LoopsВ pack: It can sometimes be confusing knowing which one to use in certain scenarios however as a rule of thumb, if you want to slice something up, just use the Simpler.Д«efore carrying out this step, I think a bit of pre-editing of our loop is a good idea. They are quite similar instruments, with the 'Sampler' possessing much deeper control and sampling functionality. Make sure to use the 'Simpler' and not the 'Sampler'.

The first step is to create a new MIDI track and add a Simpler instrument to it. Let's dive a little deeper and get into some detail! Could It Be Any Simpler? Voila! You have a Drum Rack instrument loaded with sliced drum samples from your loop. Right-click on your loop inside the Simpler, and click 'Slice to Drum Rack'.Д¦. Set the playback mode on the Simpler to 'Poly'.ДҐ. Create a new MIDI track and add a Simpler instrument to it.Д¤.

#ABLETON LIVE PACKS DRUM LOOPS HOW TO#

In this quick tutorial, I'm going to show you how to chop a beat into a playable drum kit specifically in Ableton LiveВ - f or those who want the TL DR - I'll start off with the main steps:ДЎ. There is still merit to this 'old school' way of doing things, but fortunately for those of us in the digital realm (and frankly without the money, space and time for the hardware approach!) there are tools built into almost every DAW to help us slice and dice our favourite loops in no time at all. In times gone by, this would have required a turntable setup, some vinyl records, a hardware sampler, and a fair chunk of time! Chopping up drum loopsВ for re-sequencing into fresh beats has been a staple technique in music production for decades now.

Ableton live packs drum loops