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I was just going to start a thread on how bad drum rack's / simpler's sound was, but after checking it seemed to render just right.

The problem is: I started making my drums on a certain set with simpler, but wanted to transfer them to drum rack. Comparing the sound of both instruments, Impulse's was noticably better.

First I thought it was just a volume issue, adjusted the Simpler's volumes to 0dB and as even after that Impulse was still louder, I adjusted by ear and meters. Then I thought I might have changed something inside Impulse, but I had not.

So what does Impulse do to the sounds ?

*bump*

are you sure it isn't an envelope issue.

I went to check once more and while I could not reproduce the sound issue - I wonder how that could be as I checked quite thoroughly before posting this - but I noticed is always slightly panned right although it is set to center.

you may have a version of Live which has and issue with 'elves', some odd numbered (Serial number) versions had this issue. They can play tricks, alter sounds and pan stuff around .
If it persists you should contact support@ableton.com and tell them that you have "the elf problem" and they will guide you from there.
Make sure to say that it started today, and include the date.

You seem to be right about the envelopes, I just don't understand how that's possible. When I play them (Drum Rack via computer keyboard, Impulse vie buttons to have direct acces to both), they sound exactly the same. When I play them with a clip, they don't. It really sounds like Impulse's sound were cut, but I put decay to the max (10s), so this cannot really be…

This was with velocity set to 100% on both instruments and all sounds - both being triggered from the same clip…

Now I set velocity to 0% on everything and the volumes I had adjusted are now different. It seems like both instruments don't react to velocity the same way even when configured the same.

All pretty weird, but I guess I'll forget all that and just let Impulse be. That is what I intended to do anyway but I'd have found it nice to have an answer on what it does for when I want to transfer sounds from it to Drum Rack…

Thanks for the tip, but the elves started their work some time ago…