you could open up the context menu by right clicking (pc) or cmd clicking (mac) and selecting 1/16 or you could use A super special hot key. First we need to turn our 1/16th note grid back on. We shall now use the glorious duplicate function of Ableton Live to quickly copy and past the hi hats across the bar. This method also has an added benefit of allowing the kick drum to have the dominant transient over the hi hat which will bring out kick drum more and give it more punch and definition. we are humanizing a drummer with good timing here. Then rush the second hat by moving the note a little bit back in time, but not to much. Lay back the first hat a little bit off the one by moving a tiny bit forward in time.
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Now we can move the Hi hats free of the grid by clicking an dragging or clicking the note to select and using the arrow keys. select “off”, which you will see just under 1/4. so lets open up or context menu by right clicking (pc) or cmd clicking (mac) on the midi note editor. you will also notice the note color will get darker or lighter depending on the velocity setting.Īnother thing I would like to do is “humanize” the hats so as not to sound like a machine. Move the velocity for the Hihat one 1.1.3 down a little to add some variation to the hi hats. Double click to enter Hi hat closed on the 1.0, and 1.1.3, then look down at the bottom of the clip view and you will see little vertical lines with circles on top. Now lets drop in some closed 1/8th note hi hats. I will be using the Hip Hop pattern shown in this picture at a tempo of 96 bpm. Try adding in another kick on the 1.1.3 then move it up to the 1.1.4 Feel free to play around and find a basic rhythm and tempo you like. Now slow down the global tempo to 96, instant hip hop. Advance the kick drum to 1.3.3 and set the global tempo to 172.
From here we can play with the tempo and feel of the beat by adjusting the global tempo and moving around the second kick drum. not very exciting but can be useful in some situations (country and punk rock). With draw mode off double click to insert a note to trigger the kick drum on the 1.0, and the 1.3 now double click to insert a snare on the 1.2 and the 1.4 The note divisions are listed at the top of clip view.
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At the top of the screen you will see a pencil icon, if it is yellow click it off, alternatively the hot key is ctrl+b for pc and cmd+b for mac. first we will talk about using the regular mouse pointer to enter midi notes. Their is two ways to enter notes with the mouse, one is draw mode (pencil tool) and the other is using the regular mouse pointer. This will enable us to place notes down on the grid quantized to 1/16th notes. Take a minute to look over all your options then select fixed grid 1/16. Now lets set the grid, right click (pc) cmd click (mac) in the midi note editor section to open your context menu for the midi note editor. Clicking and dragging up and down will move the note rule section up and down. In the note ruler section clicking and dragging left and right will zoom in and out. IE: kick, side stick, snare hit…You should notice that your mouse cursor turns into a hand holding a magnifying glass. Now take a look at the note ruler section of the clip, The note ruler is located on the left side of the clip and contains the names of the different pieces of the drum kit.
In order to re-size the clip view move your mouse just above clip view, the mouse will turn into an up/down cursor, then click and drag the clip view to be as big as needed When inserting a midi clip, clip view should be automatically selected, you can also switch between clip view and device view by pressing shift+tab or you can also select either view on the bottom right of the screen.
You will also notice the hot key command for the insert midi clip action which you could use, or just double click the cell to create a midi clip. To do this right click (pc) or cmd click (mac) on the first cell in the midi track that you put the drum rack in. Next we need to create a 1 bar midi clip in an empty clip slot on the midi track. For now I will be using a kit from Ableton’s Session Drums. Pick any kit you like but don’t take to long because we can audition other kits later when we have the loop created. To load a drum rack Open the live browser, select the live devices, open the instrument folder, open the drum racks folder, open the kit folder, and select a drum kit. The first thing we need to do is open Ableton Live and load a drumrack into a midi track. To start off we will be making a basic 1 bar drum loop, and then quickly expand the basic drum loop to dynamic 32 bar drum pattern. This tutorial is a introduction to midi drum programing using Ableton Live and Drum Racks.
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