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I'm fairly new to ableton and have only tried the session view yet. I would lay my kick drum down first and then add snare hi hats etc. But how does this work in arrangement view. Because when i want to lay in the drums seperately, and finished the kick and snare but want to add hihats it overwrites the old track.
Could you help me out with this?

Thanks

toonableton wrote:I'm fairly new to ableton and have only tried the session view yet. I would lay my kick drum down first and then add snare hi hats etc. But how does this work in arrangement view. Because when i want to lay in the drums seperately, and finished the kick and snare but want to add hihats it overwrites the old track.
Could you help me out with this?

Thanks

This is in one single drum rack track? Check out MIDI Arrangement Overdub in the manual.

Yes in one single drumtrack,
I'll check the manual, thankyou

you could also consider using seperate tracks for each sound. I sometimes prefer this method because it's easier to see what's going on in arrangement view. (then I just put all the drum sound tracks in a group or a couple of groups).

snakedogman wrote:you could also consider using seperate tracks for each sound. I sometimes prefer this method because it's easier to see what's going on in arrangement view. (then I just put all the drum sound tracks in a group or a couple of groups).

I've also started to do this lately. It's much to be said about this approach. The biggest upside for me though is that you can mix individual patterns independently and use stuff like different loop lengths and so on.

Stromkraft wrote:

snakedogman wrote:you could also consider using seperate tracks for each sound. I sometimes prefer this method because it's easier to see what's going on in arrangement view. (then I just put all the drum sound tracks in a group or a couple of groups).

I've also started to do this lately. It's much to be said about this approach. The biggest upside for me though is that you can mix individual patterns independently and use stuff like different loop lengths and so on.

this is the way for me, I have a drum group which contains a kick channel and a snare channel, then a percussion group which will then have a separate channel for open hat, closed hat, crash etc... then I can still process the kick/snare as a whole and the percussion as a whole then both these groups are routed to a channel called "drum bus" where I glue them together.

I have never liked having everything on one channel. I just like each thing to be there on its own instead of muddled up with everything else.