Impulse

theFish429 · Post by **theFish429** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:07 am

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, how do you create a drum kit from several different drum sounds without using a whole track for each one? (I figured Impulse was the best way to go about doing this)

Thanks!

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:36 am

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 save just the kick sound, bounce it to another track then save the .wav file, the sound of the kick is dependent on the Impulse instrument settings.

hth.

theFish429 · Post by **theFish429** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:05 am

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 save just the kick sound, bounce it to another track then save the .wav file, the sound of the kick is dependent on the Impulse instrument settings.

I understand that you can save by hitting the icon in the upper right hand corner of impulse, but if the sound you want is coming from a vsti, or from operator or simpler, how do you put those presets into impulse?
Thanks for the help

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:20 am

record the sound into a clip, drag the recording into Impulse.

theFish429 · Post by **theFish429** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:28 am

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.

Lord Kahn · Post by **Lord Kahn** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:16 pm

Not really, generally you don't change the base waveform a drum significantly during a given song, so the processing overhead off running the extra synth stuff would be wasted for most users, samples are the standard way of doing this in most drum machines for years (ever since it was cheaper to add digital memory than to provide analogue oscillators, ie sometime in the late eighties).

You can however do exactly what you want with Racks in Live 6. The a rack included in the presets somewhere named "GM Kit" (or something similar, I don't have live on this computer), that has eight chains, and each is filtered so it'll only react to one note from the General MIDI drum set (which is an octave lower than the notes Impulse reacts to for some unknown reason)

Lord Kahn · Post by **Lord Kahn** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:48 pm

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

http://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 one note gets through so you may need to pitch it up or down to get your drum to sound correct, and of course multiple instances of that complicated Reaktor patch will take more resources

theFish429 · Post by **theFish429** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:12 pm

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 one note gets through so you may need to pitch it up or down to get your drum to sound correct, and of course multiple instances of that complicated Reaktor patch will take more resources

Sounds great, I just don't know what to do with the text file that opens when I click the link.

Lord Kahn · Post by **Lord Kahn** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:35 pm

It's a Rack (I presume alg stands for Ableton Live Group?). You should be able to save it and drag it into Live? I can in WinXP anyway. Or if you save it in your Library you can access it there. As it's a rack it's Live 6 only by the way.