Status

Available

Released

Mar 10th, 2010

Vespers (our Ableton Live robot trainer from the future) has created the hottest, most in-depth tutorial on Ableton Live’s Drum Racks in the universe! If you use Live you’ve got know Drum Racks!

Drums are the rock solid foundation of any killer track. One of the secrets to creating the phattest phreaking drum sounds in Ableton Live is mastering Live’s awesome, built in Drum Racks.

This tutorial, presented by our Ableton Live Certified Trainer “Vespers” takes you deep down into the “racks!” He shows you what they’re all about, why you need to know how they work and how to use them to enhance and power-up your productions.

But that’s not all: Vespers takes you way beneath Live’s virtual surface to explore Drum Racks’ advanced functionality. You’ll learn about drag and drop programming, layering, hit based processing and humanization (which is odd for an alien to know) and much, much more!

So ride along with Vespers as he launches you on an extraterrestrial expedition into the percussive world of Drum Racks! This tutorial will give you the edge you’ve been looking for as you build the punchiest drums and baddest beats this side of insanity!

• Live 8 101: Core Live 8
• Live 8 102: The Simpler Sampler
• Live 8 202: Live's Effects: Plugged In!
• Live 8 203: Live's Sampler: Explored
• Live 8 204: Exploring Drum Racks
• Live 8 205: Live DNA!
• Live 8 207: Hooked On Racks!
• Live 8 303: Ableton Live 8 TNT Tips and Tricks 1
• Live 8 402: Designing Sounds for Dance Music
• Live 8 403: Remixing in Live
• Live 8 404: Making Electronic Dance Music
• Live 8 405: Max For Live: Basics

For a full list of the topics covered, see the Tutorial Outline
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• Chapter 1: Exploring Drum Racks
• 1: Introduction
• 01:43
  1. What is a Drum Rack?
• 02:11
  2. Creating a Drum Rack
• 02:01
  3. Interface Basics
• 03:44
  4. Loading Sounds
• 02:20
  5. Organizing Your Sounds
• 2: Chains
• 04:32
  6. Chains
• 02:53
  7. Sends and Returns
• 3: The Simpler, In Depth
• 11:30
  8. Introducing The Simpler
• 05:05
  9. LFO Modulation in the Simpler
• 06:16
  10. Envelope Modulation in the Simpler
• 4: Building a Drum Kit
• 11:06
  11. Starting from a Loop
• 05:35
  12. Layerin Your Beats
• 07:31
  13. Grouping & Bussing Using Nested Drum Racks
• 5: Advanced Features
• 04:35
  14. Multis
• 07:47
  15. Macros
• 04:29
  16. Receive and Play Notes
• 04:18
  17. Audio to Menu
• 03:30
  18. Choke
• 6: Playing Drum Racks Live
• 05:21
  19. Using the Computer Keyboard
• 04:41
  20. Using an External MIDI Device
• 05:08
  21. Quantized in Time with Live

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