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Hey everyone,

I wanted to know if there was a way in ableton to import samples into Sampler and distribute them equally across the keyboard spectrum while making the root key only occupy one cell (one key) and make the range only one key as well.

When you do "Distribute Evenly around Root Key" or "Distribute Evenly" it makes ranges that expand across the entire keyboard spectrum.

when making a drum machine or importing loops that are simple .wav's, this can be quite annoying since I don't care about the pitch changes that come with the +/- 4 notes around the root key.

Basically, I want each note to be just a "hit" with the root key centered appropriately instead of slowly but surely distributing the root keys one by one from start to finishing and then FINALLY doing "Distribute evenly around root key" and then reducing the final sample to occupy only one cell.

Anyone know a quick way to do this? Or should I not be doing this in Sampler?

Thanks in advance.

here's the quickest way i've found of doing this:

- drop all samples into zone editor (all samps default to the full keyboard span)
- alt-click each sample's desired root key to set the 'R' on it. the 'R's should run diagonally
- right-click > 'distribute zones equally'
- drag the left side of the lowest sample zone up, and the right side of the highest sample zown down

Doesn't this method put the samples several keys apart?

Or should I not be doing this in Sampler?

If they are percussive samples where root key is always needed on a single key I would use a Drum Rack instead, thats what its for really.

Sorry, 'distribute ranges around root key' puts them on single keys for me, I did the root assign first.