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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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Hayz

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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"