Ableton Live Newbie Impulse fx Question

[notch]

Ok i will give this a crack...
Experiment with every control in impulse and it will give you the same results as using an fx in most cases..
Also you could and paste your drum samples directly on the arrangement view and put an fx on that channel..
Try working in the arrangement view and not just the session view.. If you are rendering tracks to send to fruity loops...Thats like using fruity and logic together .. I mean it works for some producers but is kinda pointless.. Its a waste of time.. Learn Ableton.. its like a Ferrari compared to alot of other Daws.. Your work flow will be much faster..

[karmacazee]

You got ableton live 7? Then the drum racks will do exactly what you ask.

Load up a blank drum rack from the instruments tab. You'll get a nice empty interface with a 4x4 grid for dropping your samples in. Drag and drop your kick, snare etc onto the empty pads and draw in your drum pattern as usual.

Now, if you look in the top left corner of the drum rack, you'll see four round buttons, one on top the other. The top one turns the device on and off, the second one opens up the macro mode, the third will open up the chain, and the fourth will open up the device itself. Click the third and fourth button. You should now see a list of all the samples in the drum rack, with controls for volume and pan, mute solo etc, to the right of the pads. The simpler for each sample will open too.

Now you can drag whatever effect you want on to each pad separately.

You can also drop an effect over the entire rack by placing your desired effect at the end of the rack, where it says drop MIDI effects, Audio effects here.

[notch]

You got ableton live 7? Then the drum racks will do exactly what you ask.

Load up a blank drum rack from the instruments tab. You'll get a nice empty interface with a 4x4 grid for dropping your samples in. Drag and drop your kick, snare etc onto the empty pads and draw in your drum pattern as usual.

Now, if you look in the top left corner of the drum rack, you'll see four round buttons, one on top the other. The top one turns the device on and off, the second one opens up the macro mode, the third will open up the chain, and the fourth will open up the device itself. Click the third and fourth button. You should now see a list of all the samples in the drum rack, with controls for volume and pan, mute solo etc, to the right of the pads. The simpler for each sample will open too.

Now you can drag whatever effect you want on to each pad separately.

You can also drop an effect over the entire rack by placing your desired effect at the end of the rack, where it says drop MIDI effects, Audio effects here.

Hmm.. Cool.. My ass needs to get the upgrade.. From my understanding though you can't manipulate the sound in drum rack as much as you can in impulse.. I guess use drum rack for drums and impulse for sounds you want to really tweak..

[contakt321]

Since you use Live 7, I would use drum racks which allows you to stack whatever effects you want either on each individual hit, a group of them or all of them.

The only thing impulse offers that drum racks don't is the "stretch" function (which admittedly is dope). As good as that is, I use drum racks 99.9999% of the time.

[contakt321]

In session view, click the envelopes switch in the left bottom, that will allow you to automate stuff in session.

OR

In arrange view on the far right right, select whatever parameter you want to automate and draw / adjust it in.

[karmacazee]

Yeah this Drum Rack is pretty cool thanks for the help

my next question would be how to automate vsts i.e cutoff filters and basiclly anything that can be automated because i like drawing in my patterns but is it as detailed as fl Studio because the editing events was pretty detailed i recon does ableton have the same detailed abiltiy

i havent searched about this just yet but will in abit

In the arrange view, envelopes can be drawn straight onto the track. If you expand the track a bit, there should be a box with "mixer" written on it in the i/o volume section on the right hand side. Click that box and a scroll menu will appear that lets you choose which device on the track you want to manipulate.

Then, click the box under that - by default it's usually the device's on off switch that's selected. Look for the parameter you want to adjust and then go ahead and draw in your automation on the track using the red line, and lots of double clicking....

You can also automate individual clips by double clicking them, then selecting the little round e button at the bottom of the clip. It'll open up the clip envelope section.

[notch]

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Then, click the box under that - by default it's usually the device's on off switch that's selected. Look for the parameter you want to adjust and then go ahead and draw in your automation on the track using the red line, and lots of double clicking....

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To expand on this.. just click on the track in arrangement view.. Shift+tab until you see the effects panel down below.. and what ever you click on in the effects panel will automatically change your automation line to be...
That way you don't have to keep opening the automation menu

[nova.k]

Since you use Live 7, I would use drum racks which allows you to stack whatever effects you want either on each individual hit, a group of them or all of them.

The only thing impulse offers that drum racks don't is the "stretch" function (which admittedly is dope). As good as that is, I use drum racks 99.9999% of the time.

Man i wish stretch was available elsewhere...

[contakt321]

Since you use Live 7, I would use drum racks which allows you to stack whatever effects you want either on each individual hit, a group of them or all of them.

The only thing impulse offers that drum racks don't is the "stretch" function (which admittedly is dope). As good as that is, I use drum racks 99.9999% of the time.

Man i wish stretch was available elsewhere...

Join the club - it's kind of ridiculous it's not. This may be my one major gripe w/ Ableton.