www.sonicacademy.com In this Tech Tip we take a look at the features of the Ableton 8 Drum Rack. The Drum Rack allows you to load up samples and trigger them as and when you want, but it also has a few other features which aren’t immediately obvious such as internal send return tracks and grouping capabilities. Don’t forget to check out our website www.sonicacademy.com for more free tutorials! You can get access to ALL of our interactive video tutorials (100+ and counting; plus sample packs, resources etc) including all of our exclusive Tech Tip Project files and samples, when you become a subscriber to our website for only £59.99/$100 for a FULL year!
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awsm. …thx
This is so helpful. thank you!
@JoshWiniberg It’s good to see the flow, sure (eg for routing to external instruments/rewire), but this is effectively teaching people a slow and cumbersome way to achieve a simple goal, in a software which has been explicitly designed to be ergonomic.
@dpdilla Agreed. It kinda makes you lose faith in a group that seems to expect people to pay for their ‘expert’ tuition when they don’t even implement basic things direct from the user manual. RTFM, people! Watch Ableton’s own vids, they’re much better, or better still, learn from a certified Ableton educator (I see no mention of this qualification on Sonic Academy’s website.)
Great, I love your tutorials! I’m learning a lot
Thanks!
@Crowmusicuk That sounds much better
Nonetheless, since these are tutorials, it’s good to know how the flow works, and there’s no better way to learn than to create the flow manually. Still though, this shortcut should be tought once peope know how it works.
Yeah I’m with crow, there are easier ways of doing this like pressing cmd+G to create a group
OR you could just read the manual, select the samples in the browser and drag them whilst holding Command(mac)/AltPC-I think), and all samples will be instantly layered on to the relevant pad. That will be 1 pound please SonicAcademy!
im getting ableton live intro (intro for starting) in a week and im running the demo version on my pc as of now. for some reason drum rack comes up as a folder and i cant drag an empty one in. anyone have some ideas?
Nice tip on the Multis. I didn’t know that assigning them all to the same trigger would group them together as a Multisample on the DrumRack. Now I know. I really appreciate your time!
Is there any way to increase the release passed 60? I find if I have a 4-6 second loop assigned to a pad, it loses velocity/volume after 2-3 seconds…
do not question the masters at the sonic academy!!!
hi, this is not an insert, it is an internal return track. an insert would ‘insert’ the effect into the signal chain. this plays the original audio unaffected and allows for ‘sending’ to the return track. hope this helps
“internal return track”
LOL
it’s called an “insert”
cool video tho
thx
4:11… you see how when you click the play button on the sample, it only plays for as long as the mouse button is down? how do i set it so that it plays the entire sample when i click it, and not have to hold the mouse button down? ::
you’re awesome beyond belief man./….lol
no…but i love y0u for this lol
Very helpful! I’ve been using drum racks for a while but never knew you could group the internal tracks! Will save a lot of space and allow much more on one rack! thanks guys!
Great video good tips. Will def sign up for your membership site.