The Ableton Q&A Thread

[royalB]

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[Disco Nutter]

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[Perej]

Is there any way to use the piano roll with samples like you can in FL - i.e can you get sampler or something to slice the sample into little bits and then dump it into the piano roll so you can play around with individual bits and pieces?

[e-motion]

1) Open the audio clip (must be in an audio track)
2) Add wrap points
3) In the arrangement window, right click the audio clip and "Convert to sampler" or something like that

Search for "Ableton Live Warp" on youtube.

[nowaysj]

Think it is covered in this thread, a few times. If you want something like slicex to cut up and trigger your samples, right click the audio clip and select slice to midi, I think thats what it is called. You can control the resolution of the slices and you'll get all the samples laid out on the keyboard or drum pad.

[symmetricalsounds]

yeah slice to midi is what you want.

[Perej]

Cheers, another retarded question is - where can I see how long the track is? On FL it's just sitting at the top, forgive me if I'm wrong but in Ableton it just... isn't??? I end up making a tune setting out to make it around 2 minutes... ends up being about 5.

[e-motion]

bottom of the arrangement window

[Kasshern]

Hi!
I've got some questions about layering in ableton.Is it the same thing to have :
-3 audio tracks grouped with one instance of a multiband dynamics on each tracks splitting frequency like this:1st track High,2nd track Mid,3rd track Low.
-Having one track with an audio rack on it with 3 chain and splitting the frequency the same way as above(but in differents chains instead of differents tracks).

Because from what i have experimented it doesn't sound exactly the same way,but the second method is eating far less CPU power.

[nowaysj]

Wish I could help ^

I've got a layering question as well...

I've got 6 clap samples all being triggered by the same drum pad within a drum rack. I'd like to apply an eq to the sum of those claps. A drum rack send doesn't work as the individual samples still go out to the drum rack buss.

Am I thinking about drum racks all wrong?

[mks]

^^ Just drag the effect you want onto the individual drumpad to have an independent fx chain.

Edit: I think I misread your question. I have to think on this more.

[Disco Nutter]

@nowaysj Why don't you just bounce the audio?

[nowaysj]

^^ Just drag the effect you want onto the individual drumpad to have an independent fx chain.

Yeah, I'm a total ableton newb, but that is what I thought. I thought I could put the fx on that individual drum pad (even though it is triggering several samples), I thought that's why drum racks were the shit. But I often heavily layer my snare/clap. I've usually got clap/snare stuff way out of time and panned all over god's stereo spectrum, so just layer that shiz up.

Nutter, I'm thinking about it. I try to keep this type of sound midi until as late as possible. I'm also just trying to understand the drum rack, trying to get it to do something I, the mighty I, think it should do.

[stansharpe]

Where you see the drum rack at the bottom of the screen just stick the eq after the instrument. If you want to eq each sampler within the drum rack itself you put the eq before the "border" of the rack; after the instance of sampler. Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing i just cant really think how to write it simpler

[Perej]

^^ Just drag the effect you want onto the individual drumpad to have an independent fx chain.

Yeah, I'm a total ableton newb, but that is what I thought. I thought I could put the fx on that individual drum pad (even though it is triggering several samples), I thought that's why drum racks were the shit. But I often heavily layer my snare/clap. I've usually got clap/snare stuff way out of time and panned all over god's stereo spectrum, so just layer that shiz up.

Nutter, I'm thinking about it. I try to keep this type of sound midi until as late as possible. I'm also just trying to understand the drum rack, trying to get it to do something I, the mighty I, think it should do.

Why don't you just go to session view, open up your drum rack where all the claps are and scroll along until you find the ones your using, and add an EQ to each one you want?

Err, this seems to obvious, I think I may have mis-read.

[nowaysj]

Stan and Perej, you guys are not getting it. I need to group process several sounds within a drum rack with an insert fx, not a send. From what I can tell this is not possible. I find it astonishing that you can't create a sub buss within a drum rack. I'm hoping that there is a way, as I said I'm a total ableton newb.

[StratosFear]

What you need to do is click on the little I-O button on the side of the drum rack (I'm assuming you did this already if you fed multiple samples into one pad). Then select the samples, and press Ctrl+G to group them. Now you should have a "chain" that has all the samples as one group. You can drop effects directly after that chain and it will effect all the samples at once.

Hope that helps, I think that's what you mean.

[nowaysj]

YES

And it tidies up my mixer as well. Knowledge is invaluable! I knew about grouping, don't know why I didn't try to group within the drum rack, of course!!!

True thanks man!!!

[StratosFear]

No problem, glad to know I helped someone!

[Tsunemori]

Total Ableotn newb here!

Hi guys, I'm currently learning ableton basics, but I'm kinda confused..
I want to start making a drum pattern but can't do it like this guy does http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7y2SXS2jOE with the instruments that come with Ableton.
I want to see the "sound waves" of every instrument I draw like the video, but I end up with colored blocks. What's the most common way of using it? With that wave style or with the colored blocks?
Also the guy uses .wav files on the video, are they the same that are included with Ableton? What's the difference in the use of it?

Thanks and sorry for my faulty english (I'm from argentina). Cheers!