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i'll kick it off with this simple explanation of chord structures and the circle of fifths: http://chordmaps.com/ love those chord structure maps!

I found this website pretty helpful, the chord structure maps especially. Here is another simple website which shows you chord and scales visually, on ...

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Awesome web-site! thanks a lot

Does anybody know of any good tutorials for making trance kicks, hi-hats, and snares? or where to get good samples of trance drums?
Thanks

Ok, having checked, there actually isn't a rack quite like the one I described. So I rolled on myself:

www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~lorcan/GM%20Kit.adg

The rack has 46 slots that are filtered by note. You can drop whatever soft synth you have that'll play your drum sound (or whatever, go crazy!) Only ...

Awesome, thanks a lot.

This seems to be a poor design by Ableton. It seems like there should be an easier way to put drum kits together. Or they should just give you more drum kits.

Thanks for the help though.

hit the icon in the upper right corner of the Impulse that looks like a floppy disk (what the hell is a floppy disk anymore anyway?) it lets you save the preset. to update the preset just save it as the same name to overwrite the preset you made.

I think that's what you mean. If you mean how to ...

probably a noob question...

How do you save drum sounds made from operator, or simpler so that they can be opened in the file browser and dragged into a slot in impulse (ex-the kick drum from the tutorial on making kick drums, or the drum sounds in simpler, or drum sounds from vstis)

Basically ...

"#2 - you want to make audio files from audio files? "

Yes, well...smaller audio files, but I believe you can actually do that within Ableton Live.

What is a good program/way to make audio files (samples) from video files? for example - I have a mpeg/wmv file and I want to make an audio file of the movie or part of the movie so that I can use it as a sample in Ableton Live. Also, what is a good way to do the same thing, but instead of taking it ...