Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Ableton Live, Impulse and Drum Racks

As of 8.2.1 Impulse is apparently still a second class citizen in Ableton Lives drum racks :(

If you're like me and think that Simpler/Sampler doesn't really cut it for drums, you've most probably left drum racks gathering dust in the library. This will still be the case for me since Drum Racks doesn't support Impulse in the way it they do for Simpler/Sampler.

It is still impossible to create Slicer presets with Impulse. Ableton galantly ignores it and creates Simplers instead.

Even dragging and dropping multiple clips into the drum rack doesn't work as nothing happens. And dropping just one clip creates a Simpler. You have to drag directly onto the Impulse cell in the chain instead which is beyond annoying.

All of this still makes using Impulses in Drum Racks too much of a pain, so it'll still be chained Impulses in an Instrument Rack for me :(


Cheers

-andré

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