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adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Hayz » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:05 pm

Anyone know how to add say an effect to a single snare sound in drums racks? Can't seem to separate the individual drum sounds into separate chain if this is what I need to do?

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by emef » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:09 pm

if the snare sound is the only sample on the pad just click the pad and add an effect after the simpler/sampler thats holding the snare sample

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Hayz » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:32 pm

HI emef, the snare is layered and therefore in multi! IS there still a way? Many thanks

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by geo » Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:29 pm

Just drag the effect you want in the chain inside the multi.

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Hayz » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:24 pm

geo wrote:Just drag the effect you want in the chain inside the multi.
Thanks Geo! Ableton is so simple _ I thought I'd tried this already but it works so obviously not :)

COuld yopu tell me the best way to add say compression to all the sounds as a whole as wold lik,e to do this after I have tweaked each drum sound (kick, snare etc) For exmaple if I have kick (multi) on one track and then cymabls on another track how do I add compressions to the whole drums? WOuld it be better to have all drums on one drum racks using different pads for each type of drum sound and then add compressions to the whole lot by dragging the compressor after the drum rack?

Many thanks for your help!

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Soundscapemusic » Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:13 pm

Hayz wrote:
geo wrote:Just drag the effect you want in the chain inside the multi.
Thanks Geo! Ableton is so simple _ I thought I'd tried this already but it works so obviously not :)

COuld yopu tell me the best way to add say compression to all the sounds as a whole as wold lik,e to do this after I have tweaked each drum sound (kick, snare etc) For exmaple if I have kick (multi) on one track and then cymabls on another track how do I add compressions to the whole drums? WOuld it be better to have all drums on one drum racks using different pads for each type of drum sound and then add compressions to the whole lot by dragging the compressor after the drum rack?

Many thanks for your help!

Hayz ;)

route all your drum tracks to a send and add compression on the send. send the send t the master and al your drum tracks to only that one send

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by geo » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:02 pm

Or you could compress individual sounds if you feel like, it's like adding an effect as before. Then, you could just throw a compressor after your drum rack to compress all your drums.

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Hayz » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:35 pm

geo wrote:Or you could compress individual sounds if you feel like, it's like adding an effect as before. Then, you could just throw a compressor after your drum rack to compress all your drums.
Yep, this is the method I'm going for. Thanks guys - especially Geo :)

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by honeo » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:54 pm

sending it to a send channel will layer the compression to the original or not?
but you can route each drum sound you want to a new audio-channel(the same for all) an add a compression to it

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by Soundscapemusic » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:21 pm

honeo wrote:sending it to a send channel will layer the compression to the original or not?
but you can route each drum sound you want to a new audio-channel(the same for all) an add a compression to it
not if you send all your drum channels to "sends only". Then your master only recieves the one input from that send channel.

that method is straight from the manual and is a great way of reducing CPU Load.

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Re: adding FX to a single drum sound?

Post by praecox » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:26 am

or just made a "BUS" track put a compressor on it and route the outputs from a several drum tracks to "BUS"

or just group a single drum tracks (snare, tom, hats etc) then put a compressor on the group track. you must route every grouped tracks to "Group"
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