New to Ableton, Basic questions?

[governmentcheese]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Ableton, but worked with Sonar for a long while. I have a couple of what I think are basic questions.

1. Easiest way to split drums into individual tracks (bass, snare, hihat on own tracks for individual control) but still be able to play of of same drum rack. So i'm playing my drums on my controller and each going to an individual track.

2. I drag a wave sample in, slice to warp markers and when I play the sample, i wanna be able to hit the pad and have the sample play out without having to hold the pad down.

Thank you, I'm sure I'll have tons more questions, but I am already up and running and can't believe how intuitive this program is right out of the box. When I first got Sonar, it took me a few days just to get sound to come out of the speakers. So stoked on Ableton!

[thomas.martinet]

For 1, I think that the Drum Rack is exactly what you're looking for. Each pad has it's own signal path and they can be expanded in sesion view for mixing and control. It even has choke groups and onboard routing, which gives you a lot of control. Check the manual for specifics

For 2, the quick and dirty fix would be to max out the release time on Simpler/Sampler. They both have a 60 sec max release time, which lets play a sizable sample.
You can also make oneshot Clips, with looping off, in Session view and midi/key map them to play any length files.

Thomas

[Willyum]

1 - at the top of each drum rack track (session view only) there's a small triangle in the track name box.... click it and all the loaded pads will have their own track (these can not be controlled with midi controllers). If there are lot of sounds in your drum rack, but only a few are being used, delete the unused pads and the extended mixer view will condense to just the sounds you are using.

2 - like the above poster said, adjust the release and choke.... However, do it on a blank/empty drum rack so you can save it. Live allows you to make custom 'default' racks. You make all the settings for sample behavior, effects settings, choke groups etc... then when you drop sounds on a new drum rack, all your settings that YOU like are already there. (details and folder location to save default settings to are in the manual)