making your own instruments?

[da dude of halo2]

I have searched everywhere in the forums but I simply can't find it. Meaning what I was to do is record some of my own instruments and sounds that I make and turn it into an instrument such as the sound designers on abletons front page, I want to do what they are doing but in my own way. Can anyone break it down for me in steps on how to do this? You know just a basic tutorial I have looked in tips and tricks but nothing on creating your own instruments tutorial guide.

Also one other question that might not fit here but I still need help on it so here it goes.

I recently bought a Multimix4 to USB and contacted the support through alesis and have tried all of there methods is there anything that I can do so ableton will recognize this device and use the condenser mic I have (just bought that too).

Here is what I have.
Imac 4 gb 1066 2.9ghz and ableton 8.1.3 Xlr cable to my condenser mic and to the Multimix 4 thats running into my mac, I am also receiving signal from the mic but how do I make ableton recognize it? I went into midi audio settings and utillities and set up codec so it must be receiving the signal of the multimix4 but ableton is not recognizing it what am I doing wrong?

[yur2die4]

If you want to try it super-ghetto style! You can record one long take of sustained notes from a guitar-for-instance. (if you wanted to do the more traditional method, I would try recording each of these notes at different velocities). But here is the fun-super-quick-easy part. Since they are all simple sustained notes with a hard attack, hopefully the Transient detection for the long recording would detect only the attack of each note (if not, you can use warp markers instead to be more picky). If you did these notes in sequence, you could quickly slice to midi. Sure, Drum Rack is not preferred, but that is a really quick way to try out the technique and get ideas on how to do it better.

After that you can try it slicing to Sampler, or better yet, record that take and then select each note by hand. Many sampling setups also might spread a single note across 3 or 4 keys, to save on memory.


As for your audio interface, are you able to play audio out from Ableton Live, into the mixer? Using your mixer to send audio out to your speakers? I'm just making sure that the mixer is being used as your sound interface in the Audio Preferences.