Hello,
I’m trying to determine if I can have more than one sample playing per track in a Flex or Static machine. I saw nothing in the documentation about it.
My thinking is perhaps a bit clouded as I’m thinking of something along the lines of an Ableton “drum rack,” which is how I’ve been working for the past ten years. That may not even be relevant.
Any advice on how to load a drum kit into a single track is appreciated.
Thank you,
Tom Tolleson
One way to do this would be to record all your drum hits and send that recording to the Octatrack. Load it into a track, open the Edit menu (Function+Edit), go to Slice menu, Create a Slice Grid in a way that allows each drum hit to have its own slice - that way you can put down some trigs and lock them depending on which drum hit you want played.
Ex. Kick on SL1, Snare on SL2, Clap on SL3 etc. - you can trig lock the slice numbers to your liking!
Track efficiency, it saves space… it’s pretty handy I guess!
You can use Sample Locks to assign a different sample to play on each step on any given track, or you can assign a different slice of a sample to play on each step (as described by SkeenaCloud above). But the essence is that only one sample can play at a time on a track. If you wanted more than one drum hit to play on a particular step, you could layer the hits in one slice of a sample.
Check out discussions of sample chains on this forum for lots of great examples of what can be done.
Good info! Thanks, SkeenaCloud and PeterHanes of you for the advice. I’ll definitely look into the sample chains discussion on the forums for more information.
Tom
i use the sample lock method more often and enjoy it.
while not only nice for having ALL of your drums on one track, it’s also nice to mix up kicks on one track, snares on another, etc.
also be sure to play with ADSR and filter p-locks…i use a open hi hat and just shorten the decay to make it a closed hi hat.
have fun…
Good advice. Thanks again!