most efficient way to programme audio drums?

[PeteMacLeod]

I feel a bit conflicted about the best way to programme drums and so looking for what is the best, most efficient option.

I used to manually copy and paste wav audio samples into arrangement but this takes SO long and not easy to make a groove I find.

I have more recently been using a MIDI channel drum rack and loading up my audio samples there. This seems a lot better for writing beats BUT i don't have such control over volume and effects it seems on each kick, snare etc.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[tedlogan]

I'd say drumrack is by far the fastest and most efficient. And you absolutely have control over everything (volume,pands,sends,modulations, effects etc) in many possible configurations - per kick, snare, hat and so on.

I'd hate to program and mix drums the old-school way with each on its own audio or MIDI track.

A drumrack is in effect a huge amount of MIDI tracks (MIDI notes to be technically correct, but for all intents and purposes regarding drums you can think of them as tracks or channels), just presented differently.

Here is the manual's section on drumracks:

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/instr ... drum-racks

and an overview:

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/instr ... w-of-racks

[PeteMacLeod]

That's gerat man! Thanks