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dootdoot wrote:

animalfamiliar wrote:yeah i think i'll just fill up a drum rack with the samples and see how that goes.

now you're on the trolley!

haha what a great expression!

yeah i think i'll just fill up a drum rack with the samples and see how that goes.

the problem is that i'm not using a drum rack! it's just a rack of simplers. the drum rack has the midi I-O (which is pretty cool, btw), but the other kinds of rack don't. as far as i can tell.

i have a bad feeling i'm gonna have to buy sampler. which i'm sure i'll love, but i was hoping to do this ...

oh no wait it's not working!

i've got a rack of simplers, and each simpler is loaded with an individual violin sample (each note of the violin is sampled, a3 to g5). i changed the key zone for each simpler in the chain to it's note, which seemed like a great idea BUT: when i play note d3, for ...

instead of fiddling around with a song that's not going anywhere, just drop in one of yr lesser used plug-ins and get to know it better. frankly i've got way too many plug-ins i haven't spent enough time with (this is another issue all together, of course).

and maybe some new sound will spark an ...

yeah, i ended up using simpler. i just made a rack with a boatload of simplers (one for each sampled note on a violin) and changed the zone for each one to its proper key (ie the c#4 sample is played by only the c#4 midi note).

it seems to work fine! thanks again, everyone.

one last question ...

ah, okay well that makes sense.

thanks for the help!

i'm an ableton newbie, so this may be a really dumb question.

i'm broke and can't buy sampler right now, but i've got a collection of violin samples that i'd like to use. it's a multisample collection, so there's a sample for each note (ie c3, c#3, d3, d#3, etc.) (i THINK that's what "multisample ...