Hi
Sorry if this has been answered before, but there’s so much information all over the place, sometimes over 500 posts in the same topic, I can’t just read them all each time I get stuck (and I don’t have a private noob topic)… Some are many years old and I hesitate to bump a 500+ post topic (please tell me if I’m wrong)
So I am trying out how to set up some basic drum stuff to get started quickly like when friends come over and would like to jam, and having them waiting while you set-up drum assignments browing that terabyte of kicks library you have is not ideal. And it would be cool to have some variety of kits to choose from, ready to go. The three most obvious ways I found are:
-setting up a collection of kits as individual hits in parts and banks (precise, but takes time)
-using horizontal chains (a kit per chain) (easy, but needs a lot of planning ahead to have all the individual instrument in the right order)
-using vertical chains (an instrument per chain, all chains in the same order per kit)
The 3 one (vertical) is interesting because we can use the crossfader to change kits instantaneously. This is great fun when playing I found, but for browsing not so much. I started with 64 slices per instrument (thanks to @Tarekith who offers these to download for free, that saved me a LOT of time, really).
My question is: how could we “fix” one of these kits in an easy way? The screen doesn’t give any information as to what slice is playing (how could it), and the crossfader position is not displayed numerically.
To be clear: so with the crossfader I can access 64 kits. I slide around, find one I like and want the pattern to use that kit as default, so I need to fix the slice start points in the part. Sort of defining the crossfader offset for a parameter, batch processing several tracks.
Because I want to continue mangling the individual hits, I’d like to avoid resampling, and I can’t just leave the crossfader where it is because I want to use other scenes too.
Thanks