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Hello all

I want to know how you edit Drum loops if it possible. When you have a loop with 5 ot 6 drum parts playing and some parts playing together, how do you split them up to be able to place each part on different tracks.

What I have been doing is loading in a loop on 1 track then cut and past each part onto other tracks but I still have the problem of drum parts playing together, like a hi hat and lick drum. I have also loaded in single drum sounds and pasted them in the same posotion as my loop in another track but somehow this seems to lose the feel of the groove. Is there a book you can buy about wav editing I really want to be able to do this in a professional way. Can anyone help me please with some sound advice.

Regards

Michael Blount

hi-
in Session view, try loading your samples into Impulse, and then routing each sound to a separate track. There is a good tutorial on this on the ableton 'site, under Monthly Tips and Tricks.

Thank you you for the reply, but sorry you miss my meaning.

I want to know how you cut wav samples up.

if you're trying to isolate sounds that overlap in a loop . . . say, like, a snare from a kick that occur at the same time, you want to adjust the snare but not the kick . . .

you're screwed.

when you have drum hits simultaneously happening in your loop, so you cant separate them:

load your loop up in one track, make a parallell MIDI track, place an impulse in it, load the impulse kit with sounds similar to your loop ...

make a MIDI clip in that track the same length as you loop

now let the audio loop loop around - listen - start duplicating the drum hits in the MIDI loop you created, one by one. Start with the kick(s), then snare, then hat pattern, the congas, shakers, toms etc etc

copy it as closely as possible. now you have a MIDI loop with all of the parts, and you can break it down however you like it

you wont be able to copy every loop this way, but in the process you will get progressively better at creating real drum patterns rather than always relying on other peoples loops

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