drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

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bensonbrown
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drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

Post by bensonbrown » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:12 pm

Hi Ableton Community,

is it possible to play a sample on a pad in drum rack chromatically.
Like the funktion in maschina and the mpc you push a button and than you can play
the choosen pad sample chromatically

thanks for answers

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Re: drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

Post by Shift Gorden » Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:23 pm

Yes mate.

You looking to play, say, 5 snares but each on a different pad and each one tuned or pitched differently?

Drag your drum sounds to the pads you want to use in Drum Rack (probably dragging the same drum sound to each pad). Then you need to click on a pad - notice the sampler device that appears to the right? Go in to that and adjust the transpose one pad at a time. E.g. Drum A = 0, Drum B=+1 semitone, Drum C=+2 semitones, etc.

That help?

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Re: drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

Post by yur2die4 » Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:34 pm

I think he means having each sample use only one slot, but able to play chromatically (including chords) by selecting it.

That is how Maschine lets you do it.

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Re: drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

Post by Shift Gorden » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:11 pm

yur2die4 wrote:I think he means having each sample use only one slot, but able to play chromatically (including chords) by selecting it.

That is how Maschine lets you do it.
Oh, I see. My bad - not a Maschine user. I know you can layer samples on a single slot in Drum Rack, but I don't know much else that will help. So in Maschine you can have one sound in a slot, but that one slot has multiple pitches?

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Re: drum rack sample on pad chromatically played

Post by oddstep » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:08 am

The nearest you can get to that behaviour is to automate the transpose control on a sampler

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